Dumb question maybe, but regardless of the browser you use, isn't your ISP able to collect a ton of data either way just based on the network traffic? How happy should I really be that the browser vendor (Watermark or any other browser) itself might not also be doing it also?
Waterfox Browser
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Re: Waterfox Browser
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this the source code? https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox
It isn't linked from https://www.waterfox.net at all, so hard to say
I mean, about page says Alex Kontos, MrAlex94 is Alex Kontos, so it almost certainly is.
Not linking the source code is somewhat understandable because it is likely to increase support burden without any increase in contribution.
Re: Waterfox Browser
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#44This has been around for a while. I used it as my primary driver several years ago, back when its main feature was that it had 64-bit support. After Firefox implemented a 64-bit build, I sort of just assumed waterfox would die off. Neat to see they've kept around and changed focus.
Re: Waterfox Browser
#45Alternatives that allow you to still get your security and stability updates from Mozilla include two Gnu soft-forks. There's IceCat, which is the best-supported version and runs off of ESR. [1] There's also "abrowser" (that's literally what it's called) that is part of the Gnu Trisquel distribution, which is based on the most recent release. Both patch the browser to be more security and privacy friendly. [2] There are also several projects that provide patches for Firefox or user.js files [3] to minimize the privacy impact of recent Mozilla decisions. (I publish patches that remove Pocket and disable various forms of tracking in Firefox.) The problem with the patch-based approach is that you have to build Firefox yourself, which most people are unable or unwilling to do.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Re: Waterfox Browser
#46> Waterfox does not collect ANY telemetry, meaning you don't have to worry about any tracking or usage information about what you do inside YOUR browser. This is woefully uninformed or malicious. There's a lot of tracking that is out of your hands. Such as canvas fingerprinting. Even sending back 0's (like tor does) doesn't prevent fingerprinting. In either case I lost confidence for the browser just by reading what…
I think they are claiming "you don't have to worry about any tracking or usage information being sent to the Waterfox developers ," but if so, they shouldn't say "you don't have to worry" (see also Lavabit and Protonmail's "you don't have to worry about government surveillance... well, not until the government decides to surveil you"). I agree it's weird for a web browser of all products to omit this clarity!
That's fair, but it is also very misleading. It also isn't hard to see how it is misleading, enough so that I'm sure I'm not the first to notice it and that I would assume it has been brought to their attention. If not, well... someone ping them.
Re: Waterfox Browser
#47> They should be used responsibly, but Waterfox still supports the use of Java and Silverlight plugins, as well as any other 64-Bit NPAPI plugins.
Are Java and NPAPI still a thing? I have never come across such plugins lately.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that the replacement is crippled and Google is clearly more interested in stripping features from the extension API. I'm still waiting for a way to hide the tab bar which is a privileged UI feature now.
> "I'm still waiting for a way to hide the tab bar which is a privileged UI feature now" userChrome.css to the rescue: - Tree Style Tab's wiki offers tips to do exactly that: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo... . - Or you can combine the address and tab bar: https://github.com/rstacruz/firefox-stealthfox If none is to your exact taste, https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ may help.
That's the correct solution for now, but we can only hope Mozilla won't disable the ability to use these files. They're disabled by default in FF 69: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/24/firefox-69-userchrome-css-...
And the key to reenable them has legacy in the name:
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheetsRe: Waterfox Browser
#49Are there any similar projects in the Chromium world?
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Not sure why you got downvoted, this project answers the question exactly. People downvote nowadays withtout giving any information as to why the post is bad. When it's sarcasm, I get it, but when it's an actual answer...
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not me. I lost DownThemAll[1] and TabWheelScroll after the extension overhaul [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll !
I loved DownThemAll, but I'm not sad to see it go because I realised how rarely it was actually needed these days. The downloading interface built into Firefox really is fine 99% of the time. On the rarer occasions that I need to download extremely large files, I send them to an HTTP download client (pyload) that runs directly on my NAS in docker.
I didn't really use the segmented downloads feature. The important part of it for me was the fact that I could download all the files of a particular type and download URL ranges. Stuff like https://example.com/[0-999].png.
![https://example.com/[0-999].png](https://example.com/[0-999].png){kind=link}