Yesterday I accidentally wiped my Firefox profile. Upon creating a new one I was hit with the realisation of just how many shit defaults Firefox has. This made me consider using a fork which un-enshittifies Firefox.

There is only one that I know of, LibreWolf. Thankfully it seems actively maintained. So on Windows I have started using that for now. On Linux I still use Firefox because the enlightened repository maintainers don't allow any Firefox/Chromium forks and I don't wanna use Flatpak or pacakge it myself.

Are there any other forks worth considering?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Good suggestion but it's not in the repos. I might just change distro and try something like NixOS. https://voidlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&q=icecat

    • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      the enlightened repository maintainers don’t allow any Firefox/Chromium forks

      I thought you were talking about Void when you said that. I use it too. Someone packaged librewolf for void and maintainsa repo, it works: https://github.com/index-0/librewolf-void

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        It's good that this exists for now but I feel projects like this are a bit ephemeral. Often when the maintainer stops getting utility from these they abandon it. I would have preferred if they had created a librewolf-bin package from the precompiled binaries since those are easier to maintain and can often be updated via scheduled github actions. This project is missing several releases between the 129 and 130 ones.

        I'll try it though. Worst case I will have to switch back to mainline Firefox.

        • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          He did all the heavy lifting though, writing the template and all that. Updating the package in the future shouldn't require much more than updating the source destination in the template file when a new version comes out.