What's the most well-maintained Firefox-fork right now?
from rumschlumpel@feddit.org to firefox@fedia.io on 27 Feb 2025 10:38
https://feddit.org/post/8506115
from rumschlumpel@feddit.org to firefox@fedia.io on 27 Feb 2025 10:38
https://feddit.org/post/8506115
In light of recent Mozilla developments, I'm considering switching to a fork. But maintaining a browser fork is a pretty massive piece of work, so I'm wondering which ones are at least decent at that.
#firefox
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Desktop or mobile?
desktop
Probably LibreWolf.
i second that
Mobile.
IronFox on Android https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Granted, it is only about a month old, as it was forked from Mull when it was abandoned. But updates have been steady, and I have no complaints as a longtime Mull user.
Most forks just take Firefox, give the default settings a do-over, slap their artwork on and call it a day.
So there are forks that do more? Which ones are those?
Zen Browser and Floorp. Of course, as soon as a project does more, that also makes maintenance more work, so they're more likely to be less well-maintained.
And of course, none of them can exist without Mozilla.
This fork https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox, which is itself a fork of Mull Browser. Mull Browser was maintained by Divested Computing Group (the creators of privacy focused Android ROM DivestOS, a fork of LineageOS). When the Mull Browser fork was archived, IronFox was created within days. As you can see individual projects come and go fairly often, but the community is pretty active in general!
Librewolf woks well for me; pocket, firefox accounts, firefox-view and telemetry are disabled by default; also ublock origin is installed by default too
I’ve tooled around with Waterfox on Mac with decent results. Seems like it uses a lot of RAM when I leave a bunch of tabs open in the background, but I only use it for one Lemmy instance so that hasn’t been a problem.