MaterialFox VS user.js

There are a few, but I'm not sure if they're close enough for you or not: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-chrome...

Truthfully, I don't think that Firefox and Chromium look all that different, to me it seems like it's the same layout just different margins/colors/tab styles? So I'm not sure what is close enough or not.

Notably, Firefox also has userChrome.css (https://www.userchrome.org/), so if themes aren't able to get you where you want, it's possible that there's a more extensive change that someone has compiled in a user style (https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/index.html, https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox might be good places to start looking, although I don't have personal experience with either source so this isn't a recommendation).

Not sure how about the problem with chrome, but I'd like to point out that firefox is extremely themeable, and you could definitely make it look like chrome if that's really your only problem with it. Maybe check out https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox or r/FirefoxCSS

If you don't like Firefox UI you can customize it through themes. For example you can make it look like chrome (MaterialFox). The options are endless and if you know CSS you can make your own theme.

I tried to download material fox theme for FF but i couldn't find the file from release page if anyone have the file ?? Link

For example: https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox

Probably the best you will do: https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox but it hasn't been updated in a while.

fun fact: you can install chrome theme for the firefox https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.