Firefox updated today and I’m wondering why they don’t put Brave in this table, what’s your opinion on this? 🤔

Same for librewolf and mullvad browser, not so many people use it.

At least the Brave guy’s site included many popular browsers and not just the big 5.

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It’s a comparison of mainline browsers - they haven’t included any forks in it.

Opera and Edge are forks.

Unfortunately true

But they didn’t start that way

No Internet Explorer either, and it has a bigger market share than Brave… Not everything Mozilla does is some evil conspiracy, they just put their browser on a table comparing it to its biggest competitors. Please go outside.

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I am absolutely aghast that Firefox would say Firefox is the best web browser. Their chart is, however, open to external audit so it is entirely unimpeachable.

(This is a parody of people who were arguing in favor of an “independent” browser privacy website run by someone paid by one of the browser companies)

No mosaic or lynx either

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Fingerprint resistance of firefox? Is more like somewhat…

You have to change a few things in about:config, disable webRTC and spoof:

  • user-agent
  • font fingerprint
  • audio context …

But it’s the “best” OOTB alternative we can have rn.

You wouldn’t happen to have all those needed settings changes in a conveniently shareable list, would you?

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I’m not able to copy/past my changes from my phone’s about:config but here is a great tutorial and most of the parameters I changed:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy

Keep in mind that to use about:config on mobile phone you have to use the beta, dev or nightly version of firefox.

Also this could and will break some sites, I don’t know how much you want to harden your firefox but here are the addons I use with Firefox:

+AdGuard home at the DNS level.

You can test all your changes on: https://browserleaks.com/

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ICYMI: All the cool kids are using LocalCDN instead of DecentralEyes now.

Woho, Thank you for the tip :) will take a look on how it differs from Decentraleyes, except not being updated for a while !

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I prefer Firefox(forks) but would also like to know what they’re talking about.

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Maybe because it’s their most direct competitor? FOSS and similar features OOTB. Dunno, just guessing.

This just in: not everything is a conspiracy against your favorite browser with a sliver of marketshare.

This applies to Brave and Firefox users.

Not enough market share. Keep it simple. The one who use brave know about firefox. Grab the low hanging fruit

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Grab the low hanging fruit

Sounds like locker room banter to me

No Vivaldi either.

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