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The Mozilla focus on privacy is the killer feature for me.

    DNS encrypted
    "Total Cookie Protection"
    uBlock Origin
    multi-account containers

I also like

    built-in screen capture
    *various other extensions, such as Copy All Tab URLs

I didn't find "Pocket" compelling when it was first introduced, but I have since found some of the recommendations interesting.

Bravo Mozilla!

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Pocket is the only reason I use LibreWolf - I don't trust its integration and what parts I can actually disable

What do you think Mozilla is doing with Pocket they couldn't do with... the rest of the browser?

Sending data TO pocket...I already know I am sending data to Mozilla

Pocket was bought by the Mozilla Corporation over 5 years ago. It's a first-party Mozilla product.

I did not realize that.

I still don't like the fact that it has sponsored links then - that is what rubs me the wrong way.

Yup, it's not great. Still seems easier to just turn them off with the new tab settings panel than recompile the whole browser, but I guess everyone has their own preferences.

Just switch extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config Whole thing gone. It's like an internal addon an that switch disables it.

> The Mozilla focus on privacy

Ah, that explains the telemetry and experiemnts that are enabled by default without explicit user consent.

There are better browsers than Firefox if you care about privacy. Both Brave and Tor have better results in this comparison that was shared here recently: https://privacytests.org/, same with this tool from the EFF https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ it gives better results for Brave than Firefox (even with blockers installed on my Firefox). Mozilla themselves give the same score in their very limited comparsion: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/

Multi-account containers are really the only killer feature in Firefox for me, they're super convenient for my work, but that's about the only thing it has left going for it.

> comparison that was shared here recently: https://privacytests.org/

The Librewolf project appears to be the best of all! I will try it.

edit: Statement below is incorrect, Brave is a Chromium fork.

I do note that Brave, Tor, and Librewolf are forks of Firefox. This in my opinion is an additional reason to support Firefox. Everyone else appears to be plundering naive users' browser telemetry.

Be prepared for stuff to break. I recently tried it and DRM content sometimes doesn't work no matter what you enable (my recent example is Udemy, which the devs claim happens in other FF forks). Also, by default it wipes history/sessions when you close it, which can be a rude surprise.

Brave isn't a fork of Firefox, it is a Chromium-based browser.

Uh, I believe that Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox...

This is incorrect. Libre Wolf is a Firefox fork.

On Android, look at Mull until Libre Wolf is available there.

On iOS, lol, you get Safari or skinned Safari due to Apple's app store rules.

What does Libre Wolf have to do with Brave?

The https://privacytests.org/ test is... bullshit, as it only test the DEFAULT browser settings when you initially install it without changing anything.

And, even worse, they don't even mention this on their website.

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