On Linux and Android. What are privacy oriented alternatives to Firefox now that it’s no longer trustworthy?
The ability to sync between devices would be a huge bonus, even just on a local network.
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If you want to keep the Gecko Engine from Mozilla to support an alternative to Google’s monopoly here are a couple alternative for Linux :
For Android you have to be aware that unfortunately every firefox based browser lack of per-site isolation unlike chromium browsers.
On the dark side of the spectrum you have chromium browser such as :
I have been daily driving Zen and aside from some random issues here and there when they mess with the UI (which is to be expected with a beta). It kind of reminds me of how cool Firefox felt back in the day coming from IE. Has been fun to see real progress and effort to try weird things that are local to the browser. Not trying to acquire costly extra services/products that take resources away from the browser. I just really wish Mozilla would have (or even start) allowing people to donate towards just the browser.
Some of the extra stuff they have have the option to directly support. The browser is still worth being a real option that isn’t just some Chromium-based BS. Yet they keep trying to divert money to everything but it. I hope that the major forks of FF start tying to prepare for going forward in the main code without Mozilla when/if the time comes. This new IE that is Chrome/Chromium can’t be allowed to keep going and dictating what is and isn’t allowed.
I also have LibreWolf and Mullvad (along with tor) and like them for the efforts in privacy and security. But are too restrictive for daily use for me. Mostly use them only with VPN when finding torrents and other stuff that I don’t want to be tied to an account/syncing (not just NSFW but searching and looking into political or questionable topics). Very happy to have options no matter what.
Vivaldi is much better than brave, no ai or crypto shit and the CEO isn’t alt right
Vivaldi is pretty awesome. The massive levels of customization are next level compared to other Chromium options. I use it first if needing to use a site that is hard-coded to reject Firefox or other non-Chromium browsers. Also use it as a feed reader a lot.
Yes Vivaldi doesn’t come with crypto bullshit nor AI. However by default it’s so badly tuned for user privacy… and sprobably even security. Honestly I would prefer having a Vivaldi AI Agent over a proprietary web browser (I know it’s mainly open but it’s not) It was not that well optimized on several of my devices when I tried it… I’m not conviced by their chromium proprietary fork even tho it’s not the worst alternative either.
I use ungoogled-chromium & thorium are worth a mention.
Wait really? Its 2025, seriously, what is Mozilla doing?
Collecting paychecks for being controlled opposition?
Yes, I learned that thanks to DivestOS which was comming with Mull, they had a comparison table and yes no FF based browser support that basic security feature yet…