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> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries.

So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.

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> I seriously might as well just use Chromium

Before you leave please give LibreWolf a shot. It’s a modified Firefox with “spying/tracking/etc” disabled.

https://librewolf.net/

will do

I've looked into it in the past, but I have no idea who's maintaining that software or what's included in it. I understand their claims, but I can't verify that's all they're doing due to my lack of time/interest.

It's more risk than I'm willing to take for a software I use or everything critically important to me - including banking access.

Quoting another HN user regarding librewolf:

> Binaries are unsigned, third party update service, Google safe browsing disabled unless you build from source, running unusual browser setups can actually make you more distinctive online, unencrypted DNS by default, speed of security patches is slower than base Firefox, etc.

Depends what you want. Chromium also has hooks back to Google so if you are really data conscious you’ll need to look to something like ungoogled-chromium.

Only reason I still use Firefox is because of TreeStyleTabs/Sideberry, still nothing like it for Chrome so on Firefox I remain.

Try Arc. You won't be looking back.

I'd love to but it not being available on Linux and invite-only both makes it very difficult to even give it a try :)

Arc being such a generic term it'd be helpful to include a link or explanation what that is.

Just search for “arc browser”.

https://arc.net/

Why? It’s based on chromium anyways. Might as well use Vivaldi instead.

They don't have sync for most things.

Firefox is nice in that not only it has sync of basically everything, but you can run your own server for it.

FWIW, I just tried Arc on Windows, but it seems like it doesn't do tree-style tabs at all, unless I'm missing something obvious?

The Vivaldi browser has a similar feature (not open source unfortunately). I've used it for a while, I quite enjoy the tab and bookmark management sidebars.

Just took a look, and it seems like Vivaldi has vertical tabs, but the similarities end there, it doesn't seem like it does tree-style tabs? Just has groups + one level of tabs...

Remember when Firefox was the new hotness because it blocked ads?

Firefox mobile is still the hotness for that same reason.

You can trivially opt out of both the telemetry and the suggestions.

Containers?

I love containers when developing! Especially when working with or testing authentication related stuff. No need to open private tabs all the time.

This extension lets you open self-destructing containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/open-in-temp-container/ .

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