Poll What is the Best Firefox-based Web Browser?

What is the Best Firefox-based Web Browser?

  • Zen Browser

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • LibreWolf

    Votes: 5 22.7%
  • Floorp

    Votes: 2 9.1%
  • Waterfox

    Votes: 8 36.4%
  • Pale Moon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    22

Marko :)

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Tor. If it's too slow for you and you don't care about privacy you can reduce the countries that are used for relay. Only browser that allows you to shake off trackers.
I tried Tor once and I'm struggling to see why would anyone use it if they aren't in authoritarian country that censors interner. You can't visit a single website without being asked to solve captcha. Every single website I opened, boom, captcha.
 

lokamoka820

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I vote for LibreWolf. I downloaded it for a test and liked it a lot. The most important thing: even in the portable version, it updates itself at startup and does not require downloading and installing something separately on top of it like other portable versions of software.
Did you notice any broken websites, or you just start using it recently?
 

Marko :)

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If I remember well you are a Vivaldi user, how do you compare Zen to Vivaldi (I like Vivaldi, and it will be good to find a similar browser based on Firefox engine).

I really do like both browsers, and I find myself going back and fourth on a daily driver. I like Zen because they have their own "mod store", which is just users submitted css mods. Zen add customizability that other Firefox forks don't have. (I haven't bested the Floorp 12 beta though.) Zen is the best at vertical tabs, which is something other Firefox forks just don't seem to be able to do. It really does seem like Zen is for gecko what Vivaldi is for Chromium, without the m3 that Vivaldi offers.
 

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Thank you all for your replies, I tried the most voted browsers extensively for a week (except Pale Moon), and that was interesting, I found that all forks have better privacy options than Firefox which vary from one to the other, and some add features to extend the user experience.

Being based on an older Firefox version doesn't mean they are not secure, as mentioned by the developers they are based on (Firefox ESR) which gets the latest security updates but not the latest features, which make it more stable in theory (some Linux distro use it over normal Firefox, but Windows users don't use it).

They try to be more as an alternative to chromium based browsers over Gecko engine rather than being alternatives to Firefox itself, for example Zen more like Arc, Floorp more like Vivaldi, LibreWolf more like Brave.

WaterFox is the closest to Firefox but with better options for the end user (I think I understand now why it gets the most votes) and it has the most beautiful logo (maybe more than Firefox logo too) to be honest it is what Firefox should be, the only drawback that it was owned by an ads company in the past.

Zen is promising with its feature set and ambitious and extended team of developers behind it, it gives new ways to use the web that is not traditional at all, some will like that, and some will find it hard to change what they used to, the only drawback that it is in Beta stage yet.

LibreWolf is the most private browser among others, it even disabled some security features to be more secure (which can be enabled by checkboxes so it is not that hard), the drawbacks are missing integrated password manager (not a big deal if you use dedicated one which is recommended by LibreWolf), and "Enhanced Tracking Protection" set to "Strict" with no other options (which means you have to disable it completely for broken websites), and not having built in updater (will not be a big deal if you use update software like winget).

Floorp have options more than Vivaldi itself to customize the browser the way you like (most of them are off by default but available if you need them), and it has integrated notes and workspaces (yes Vivaldi features), and set of themes (even a chrome clone theme), and it has a company behind it so it will not suffer from funding issues, the drawback is that release notes and support in Japanese.

The real problem with Firefox based browsers is that Firefox users are mostly advanced users, which mean they can implement any modifications and customizations they need using about:config.

Anyway, it is not bad to have choices.
 

lokamoka820

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You wrote this about LibreWolf. But you can download it from Microsoft Store. Then it will be a set and forget app.
There are many ways mentioned in LibreWolf docs about automatic updates, for example:
If you want LibreWolf to be automatically updated (recommended), you can choose to install the LibreWolf WinUpdater, which is included in the installer. You then can open the WinUpdater program and enable automatic updates by checking the box "Schedule a task for automatic update checks...".
Of course Microsoft Store and Package Managers (Chocolatey, winget, Scoop) are other ways to get updates too.
 

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