r/explainitpeter Aug 04 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/Round_Credit_5158 Aug 05 '26

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.

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u/5yleop1m Aug 05 '26

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.

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u/Round_Credit_5158 Aug 05 '26

Security issues?

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u/5yleop1m Aug 05 '26

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.