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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( I use librewolf, but have IC just for casual browsing).
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 use FireDragon. Not on your list, but it’s yet another Firefox fork to look at.
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
I’ve been using Floorp for a few months and it’s been as easy as possible to replace Firefox.
I use librewolf and arkenfox
Librewolf.
Floorp
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.
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.
My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.
In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.
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.
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.
I see.
Could you explain what you mean with this? I’m not sure I understand
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.