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by martin_a 698 days ago
It's really hard to stick with Mozilla/Firefox due to things like these.

I updated my FF yesterday and at this point I make sure to check the settings for suddenly "opted-in" "features" I am not aware of. This one also was a big surprise.

If I want to get screwed and sold to the advertisement industry by my browser vendor, I'd simply use Chrome. So please stop it, Firefox.
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blibble 698 days ago
> So please stop it, Firefox.

with this acquisition https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t... Mozilla is now an ads company

it's downhill only from here folks

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out-of-ideas 698 days ago
https://librewolf.net/ - only a few tweaks to enable/disable to have sessions persist across quitting and re-opening

but - as with any software updates, us users always suffer in having to re-check over all options to see what things changed on us (if we're lucky and get an option)

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zahma 698 days ago
I recently installed LibreWolf to separate online lives, but I remain ignorant of what actually distinguishes FF and LW.

Also, to which tweaks were you referring?

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mod50ack 698 days ago
LibreWolf is essentially a custom build of Firefox with stuff like this disabled or removed.
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thomassmith65 698 days ago
What distinguishes LibreWolf from Waterfox? Other than not being available for Mac, obviously.

edit: oops, there *is* a LibreWolf Mac port now

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ohmyiv 698 days ago
It's been a minute since I've used Librewolf so maybe things changed, but I remember that not being able to sync between devices was the biggest difference. There wasn't an account login option in LW, but there is in Waterfox.

Other than that, I dont remember any real differences. Waterfox has been fine for me because of the sync, but if you don't need account syncing, LW is fine.

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out-of-ideas 698 days ago
sadly i do not remember them all: it was basically cleaning history + session on quit (or in my case my rebooting) - and my main profile i prefer to have tabs reopen ect
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maccard 698 days ago
> It's really hard to stick with Mozilla/Firefox due to things like these.

Even with this, it's still better than chrome.

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account42 698 days ago
I too prefer eating the excrement of a male bovine over other forms of manure.
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