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Ask HN: Firefox Users, Alternative Browser

4 points by mmsimanga 7y ago

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?

Zekio 7y ago
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
Ultramanoid 7y ago
Firefox is miles ahead of anything else when it comes to privacy. That said, look into Ungoogled-Chromium or Iridium : https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 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 https://bromite.org
thomas_mcn 7y ago
There is also Waterfox and Palemoon which are forked versions Firefox.
clouddrover 7y ago
Firefox Developer Edition is another option: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ It's Firefox with some more configurability if you need it.
- idoubtit 7y ago
  What's the difference between Developer Edition and Vanilla Firefox or Nightly? The home page just describes features which seem to be in plain Firefox. Last time I searched for details, I could only find unofficial answers in Stack Overflow and such, much of them probably obsolete. I want to know what I install, not blindly trust some ridiculous PR: "Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition. Welcome to your new favorite browser. Get the latest features, fast performance, and the development tools you need to build for the open web."
onyva 7y ago
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.

4 points by mmsimanga 7y ago

Zekio 7y ago

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

Ultramanoid 7y ago

Firefox is miles ahead of anything else when it comes to privacy. That said, look into Ungoogled-Chromium or Iridium : https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 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 https://bromite.org

thomas_mcn 7y ago

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

clouddrover 7y ago

Firefox Developer Edition is another option: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ It's Firefox with some more configurability if you need it.

idoubtit 7y ago
What's the difference between Developer Edition and Vanilla Firefox or Nightly? The home page just describes features which seem to be in plain Firefox. Last time I searched for details, I could only find unofficial answers in Stack Overflow and such, much of them probably obsolete. I want to know what I install, not blindly trust some ridiculous PR: "Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition. Welcome to your new favorite browser. Get the latest features, fast performance, and the development tools you need to build for the open web."

onyva 7y ago

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.