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What's the dirt on Waterfox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by unicornBro@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it's now an independent project.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

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[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't answer for them but for me, sites would break, the cookie management was a pain in the backside, and I hated having it start in windowed literally every time I'd start the browser. It also doesn't handle containers as well as the original FF addon did.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Forgot about the window size thing, I looked up the setting to make it open normally.

I know I'm defeating the purpose by undoing someone the settings, but I'd rather the defaults be set for privacy and I disable the few that are overbearing/hindering my use. Never did use containers, so I didn't know it was bad.

[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I just feel like for my use case, I didn't need all of those extra features that LibreWolf has. If people want privacy, it and Mullvad are great Firefox options, but Waterfox is more than solid for people who use it as an alternative for big tech type stuff.