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There was a time I chose Firefox over the Chromium browser without a second thought. But nowadays, installing and opening Firefox seems like a time-consuming, very bloated experience.

Too many unnecessary features, promotions, sponsored links, and widgets are filled on the homepage. Firefox no longer allows deleting default search engines like google, perplexity, etc but can disable it. What kind of privacy feature is that? Also, all the data collection options are ticked by default. Users are needed to manually tweak it their own. Update after update instead of improving they make all the settings more complex, and there is a lot to set up after a fresh installation.

When I compare modern Firefox with 4–5 years behind Firefox, I feel like I am using browsers like Vivaldi or Opera instead of Firefox. Once we praised Firefox for its ram management in Linux but nowadays, it's bloat causes using more ram and not a lightweight option anymore. Seriously, Firefox must consider releasing a browser like Brave Origin (Firefox Origin or something).

Isn't anybody else frustrated with the new Firefox changes? If yes, what practical solutions exist? Debloat using any script or install any forks (no forks seem to be good; some are outdated, some are too much hardened, some are just not for daily browsing, etc.).

I'm just looking for a browser like Ungoogled Chromium but for Firefox (Unmozilla Firefox).

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[–] IDew@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Waterfox is pretty much what you're looking for. If you want a hardened browser, Librewolf is a very nice option. Though it does not have Widevine licenses so it might not play all DRM content.

Zen browser is what I personally use, but has a different workflow which was refreshing for once! If you want to try something new, I'd definitely recommend it! It also does not have Widevine licenses yet, but it did sign up for one.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Zen is so good.