Ask HN: Firefox Users, Alternative Browser

by mmsimanga on 5/6/2019, 11:13 AM with 6 comments

I have used Firefox from the time is was called Firebird. Addons were the initial reason I stayed with Firefox. I have added privacy to the initial reason. During the outage that caused all Addons to be disabled I installed Opera an old favourite and I was impressed. I had most of the addons I use in Firefox available to me. I don't know so much about the privacy bit. Which browser do you recommend as an alternative to Firfox?

  • by Ultramanoid on 5/6/2019, 11:31 AM

    Firefox is miles ahead of anything else when it comes to privacy.

    That said, look into Ungoogled-Chromium or Iridium :

    https://iridiumbrowser.de/

    https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

    Both projects try to clean up the spyware that Chromium essentially is by design.

    See Bromite for Android :

    https://bromite.org

  • by Zekio on 5/6/2019, 11:18 AM

    The only alternative to firefox is a chromium based browser these days (such as Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome, Edge(coming soon TM)), but firefox is more or less the only browser that really cares about privacy lately

  • by onyva on 5/6/2019, 11:57 AM

    Find it strange that people are willing to put-up with so much crap from commercial/proprietary software vendors, but get snotty because of a glitch in an open source project that’s dedicated, and as a proven record in putting the user first.

    It’s like poor people voting for popular right wing parties that have no interest or intention in their problems.

    * Assuming this an authentic question and not trolling.

  • by thomas_mcn on 5/6/2019, 11:41 AM

    There is also Waterfox and Palemoon which are forked versions Firefox.

  • by clouddrover on 5/6/2019, 11:54 AM

    Firefox Developer Edition is another option:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

    It's Firefox with some more configurability if you need it.