Now, Firefox has been making shitty anti-user decisions for YEARS, and they keep piling up. Removing the ability to disable javascript completely (and removing many settings in general). Anti privacy shit like pocket, google / yahoo as default search engines, and a bunch of unsolicited connections and other shit that requires huge scripts to disable (github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/). Removing support for many addons. It goes on and on.
Anyway...all Firefox forks are dependent on Firefox in the end. IceCat has a team behind it, I guess, but does not stray much from FF. It has many of the same issues. Waterfox is made by one guy? And Palemoon is the least worst, but still - it lacks support for many addons, and how long can it keep up with the security fixes and such? It will become outdated soon.
So what's the solution? Clearly, addons are essential, so meme browsers like netsurf or links are out of consideration. The other browser giant is Chrome, which spies on you, and apparently Chromium as well. It has many forks but the only one worth anything is Iridium, so I think that should be used. Regardless, time to throw Firefox and friends to the trash.
I'll try Qutebrowser soon, since it finally got something umatrix-like. I just hope it's not too painful to configure.
Xavier Garcia
No it's not time because there's actually no good solution. And there's no good solution because to make a browser nowadays is as enormous as making an operating system.
The reasons for that is because the W3C as be hijacked by mega corps and even if the W3C wouldn't be it wouldn't change anything as google find the way top spread a software as much as possible via the simple method of being like a virus and inserting itself (in exchange of cash) in the most popular downloaded software in existence (ccleaner, avast, etc...).
The only way to have a browser that freedom/privacy respecting, is popular, also working 99% on all websites is to have shitloads of money, have a team of 50 people who have at least read SICP, integrated a firewall like umatrix, and act the same way as google did to spread Google chrome.
This is not happening and will never happen except if god as mercy on us one day.
Also Palemoon is shit and doesn't give a shit about freedom. Waterfox is placebo. Icecat needs cruelly more serious devs. Mozilla needs to hang itself. Anything based on chromium is botnet and can't be unboneted.
Landon Rogers
chingchong
Joseph Martinez
That's one hopeful browser, and the other is Otter Browser. But we're putting hopes in a few people here. For now I'm staying with Iridium.
