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user.js
Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
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bromite
Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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privacytests.org
Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
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Servo
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
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thorium
Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.
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SaaSHub
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Hence, a higher number means a better Waterfox alternative or higher similarity.
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Waterfox reviews and mentions
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- Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
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What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
I've switched to Waterfox (yet another Firefox fork) and so far I'm happy with that choice
https://www.waterfox.net/
- Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser
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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
If you think Librewolf is too opinionated, try Waterfox [1]
[1] https://github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterfox
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Mozilla owns information "you input through Firefox"
This made me look into Firefox forks/alternatives:
Librewolf [1] seems to be fairly active (last commit on Codeberg was last week) and up-to-date with the latest upstream releases (mirrors FF's versioning scheme and matches their latest). Has a nice focus on privacy and no-telemetry.
Floorp [2] also looks active (last commit last week), also claims focus on privacy. Based off FF's extended support releases so it may lag behind in latest features.
Waterfox [3] is also active (last commit a few hours ago), also big focus on privacy, but it uses a custom versioning scheme so I can't tell how closely it follows FF's releases.
GNU IceCat's [4] latest release was in November 02023, so it looks like it may be abandoned.
Does anyone have any experience with any of these, good or bad? With all of them more or less promising the same things it's hard to tell which one may be the better option.
1: https://librewolf.net/
2: https://floorp.app/en
3: https://www.waterfox.net/
4: https://icecatbrowser.org/
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Welcome to Ladybird, a independent web browser
Just installed Waterfox a couple hours ago. ( https://www.waterfox.net/ ) I'm getting fed up with all the latest Mozilla bullshit to the point I'm ready to switch browsers.
Ladybird is starting to look good too, from an end user daily driver perspective, technically it has been impressive for a long time.
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A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla
I use a Azure Key Vault[1], and jsign[2] to do this.
You can execute it on any platform that supports Java, so I have Linux builds cross compiling to windows with clang and then sign with jsign: https://github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterfox/blob/7eda3b998a56ad...
[1] https://trustzone.com/knowledge-base/purchasing-an-ev-code-s...
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Mozilla removes ad-tracking code from Firefox
This is Android-specific news.
Desktop users interested in a privacy-first Firefox should try Waterfox https://www.waterfox.net/
- I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
influxdata.com | 30 Apr 2025
Stats
Basic Waterfox repo stats
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BrowserWorks/Waterfox is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Waterfox is C++.
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