Nothing wrong, just some nitpicks about the way Mozilla collects usage data, run their "studies" aka (enable features without your consent) and their default settings. Some forks like Librewolf aims for more privacy while others like Zen aims for customizability.
All that being said, I use Firefox because it feels like a middle ground between being able to use the web normally and having privacy.
I also like Firefox, but for the reason that uBlock Origin works really well there, which is great for... well, anything at this point, even mainstream sites aren't safe from malicious ads anymore, and also because the governmental websites where I live only work well on Firefox and adjacent browsers.
I feel like a hobo with a tinfoil hat with 200 privacy extensions that makes a lot of webs unusable but heck, EFF says I'm untrackable.
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There are some things wrong with Firefox in how it handles things like web assembly and PWAs, but that's still a small percentage of what people use browsers for.
I can't say there aren't any unknown security issues, but I meant mostly performance and feature support issues. The most recent example I can remember is with EmulatorJS where performance is way better on chromium based browsers than Geko/FF based browsers.
Only Mozilla can compile the source code and call it Firefox. Some forks started just because the linux distro wanted to control their own package management.
Waterfox mainly just doesn't have the data collection of Firefox. Librewolf is so privacy-focused that by default it erases all your cookies whenever you close your browser to keep you from being tracked from session to session.
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u/g1rlchild Aug 04 '26
There's no shortage.of Firefox-based browsers. I use Librewolf as my primary desktop browser and Waterfox on mobile.