2mo ago

Found some Firefox forks but can't decide which one to use

So, I found some Firefox forks. Those would be: floorp, zen browser, tor browser and librewolf. Could anyone help me decide which one to use?

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Zen will give you the most functionality. Librewolf will give you the most privacy and security.
- Tor Browser will give you most privacy and security, but it can be considered overkill for everyday use. Librewolf takes second place.
  
  Well. I don't really think of TOR as a browser but I digress.
Zen browser was my favourite but this put me off:
https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/
librewolf as daily driver, mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time
tor if you are feeling paranoid that day.
ungoogled chrome when none of the above work.
- mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time
  Is it sufficient? I'd always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose
  
  tor has geo location issues.
  but yeah ideally that tactic should be used vpn, you aint wrong for it to be best, IP is leaking aint good.
  i am not sure how often isp will change ip and i am not sure how easy it is for them to link up fresh ID's on mullvad though either.
Whatever you end up choosing, make sure it gets regular updates. Not being up-to-date with security updates/patches negates any security/privacy you get.
I'm using Waterfox. Been great so far.
- I just started using it myself. I can't see a difference between it and Firefox, which is a good thing because it means sites aren't breaking. But it also makes me wonder just how much more private it is.
  I've been trained by experience that privacy is strongly correlated to web sites not working properly.
  
  As far as I know, the only thing Waterfox does (differently from Firefox) is not collecting telemetry and having uBlock Origin installed by default. I haven't noticed sites breaking either (at least, any more than they did on FF).
Librewolf.
In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.
I've been using Zen and Librewolf, I recommend both of them but Librewolf will give you the privacy out of the box. A friend of mine uses Floorp and he seems happy with it.
Mullvad browser is also another great Privacy web browser but probably be more suited if you have a active subscription to mullvad VPN since it's point is to blend in with other mullvad VPN users.
My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.
Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?
- prob librewolf i use ironfox on mobile and librewolf on my pc and its very similar
I was using (and really liked) Librewolf until I heard that they were having trouble keeping up with Firefox updates. Now I'm using the Phonenix configurations for Firefox and keeping the FF updates separate from the privacy configuration settings. Avoiding forks lets you get the best of both worlds.
https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison
waterfox doesnt get regular updates, look at their github, theres one guy. (not specifically adressed to you OP)
i use librewolf and just turned some options on again so it doest delete everything when i shut it down.
I use librewolf and arkenfox
GNU-Icecat
( I use librewolf, but have IC just for casual browsing).
I use FireDragon. Not on your list, but it's yet another Firefox fork to look at.
I've been using Floorp for a few months and it's been as easy as possible to replace Firefox.

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