I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.

  • tal@kbin.social
    17·
    1 year ago

    You’re probably gonna have to tell us what it is that you want and what it is that you don’t like about Firefox Beta.

    • dsmk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I couldn’t download files from a site I use because they apparently remove the referral information from requests even when you’re navigating inside the same site (doesn’t bring much privacy because anyone looking at the logs of that site can see the same IP moving from one page to the other).

      Still a good browser, but like other projects that try to bring the Tor Browser changes to the normal web, it can break a few things.

  • wilberfan@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I find Kiwi Browser essential. It’s one of the only ones that you can install chrome extensions onto.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idM
        3·
        1 year ago

        I believe that’s an outdated Github link. The project moved here with releases here. The search engine stuff has always seemed like a non-issue to me. I run both Fennec and Kiwi but the latter gives me a true black UI and support for fully side-loaded addons (not just those already on the Firefox website).

          • ijeff@lemdro.idM
            3·
            1 year ago

            Definitely lags behind, but much better than 2 years! The Firefox variants unfortunately don’t really handle PWA properly. I was a long-time Firefox/Fennec user but the bugs pushed me toward Kiwi on mobile.

      • wilberfan@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for your desktop addon guide. If there’s a way to manually install .xpis from, say, github, I’m in! 👍

        • wilberfan@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve been trying to follow your guide for an hour now–but I’m not getting access to any add-ons but the “compatible” ones. For example, when I search for ‘Cookiebro’, the only two choices it shows me are Ghostery and uBlock Origin.

  • FuriousFrodo@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Using Kiwi because it supports Twitter control panel and old reddit redirect extensions.

      • GamerBoy705@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well, kiwibrowser/src isn’t updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It’s the best Android Chromium browser.

        The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi’s reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don’t prefer, it’s just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.

      • FuriousFrodo@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well. Thanks for the info. Uninstalling

        Edit: I added few add-ons to my collection.but I’m unable to add it to my Android. What could be the issue?

          • FuriousFrodo@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            Here’s what I did:

            • created a new collection and added few addons
            • copied the collection id from the URL
            • opened Firefox nightly and enabled custom collection menu
            • input the collection id
            • Firefox quits
            • when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”

            edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now. Thank you for your help! :)

            • wilberfan@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago
              when I open Firefox and click on Add-ons, there were no add-ons and there was an error that “Failed to query Add-ons”

              edit: added both collection id and the collection name as it appears on the URL. it is working now.

              I’m getting this same error. Added the collection ID and the name where?

                • wilberfan@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  It wasn’t at ALL clear to me that this entire process takes place in two DIFFERENT Firefoxes: one on a desktop or laptop install and THEN on your android device!! Maybe I read thru the instructions too fast (real men don’t read instructions 😉 ) but they all seem to say “…open Firefox…” without being clear WHICH Firefox they’re referring to.

                  I’ve now spent close to 3 hours trying to get 3 extensions to work/load properly into Fennec on the Android… Back to Kiwi! “It just works…” 😡

  • soyagi@yiffit.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    What kind of features are you looking for? I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my primary mobile browser for a while now and have been very happy with it.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Don’t forget that the browser has access to all of the data that you see on your display and everything you type in. All of it. So he careful who you trust. Is it a community software, is it non-profit, is it for profit, does it have a sustainable funding / business model.

  • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I think brave is pretty alright. Yes the crypto stuff is hella cringe and its chromium based but it works like charm.

  • badaiotak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Even though I’m quite eager to try new softwares, for browser I usually return back to Firefox or brave browser.

    Only recently when I tried Vivaldi browser, I don’t feel the urge to return to Firefox/brave.