What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?
kyrios : do a web search "Mozilla is not trustworthy" you'll find answers.
Always the same story , a free service is growing much, then they have to decide how to finance this (Devs, servers etc).
One way is get a paid service or they the service lives from donation or the sell your data.
But don't worry, google chrome is much worse.
I will not go to that extent currently and flat out say mozilla is not trustworthy sure there are somethings that might be questionable but that is for everyone to decide for them selves. That is why I choose Waterfox because I don't like some settings in Firefox but that is my choice, I will explain my reasons for my choice for anyone willing to read what I have wrote but I will not force you to use the same software that I use, I will suggest you at least take a look at it but that's it.
For an 'untrustworthy' browser (my FF beef is simply aesthetics) it has the most secure addons and extensions of any linux browser I've used. Mostly crash-fee is nice, too.
Dial in the right combo and you surf pretty safely--compared to the herd-- if you believe the footprint investigator sites (whoer, panopticon etc).
I know nothing of Mozilla's politics or privacy, nor has my reading led me there, so I'm not making a judgement on that based on lack of research. In advanced settings I elected not to share any data with them. If they circumvent that, oh well.
The hardening required to become truly anonymous seems too much a chore if all your interests are is solus, football, rock and roll, your old lady, and keeping your car running. And football.
I would go back to Firefox if the Waterfox project folded. I have not been a fan of data collection but I wouldn't mind using Firefox, partly because if I really want to remove the parts I don't like I could find some way to remove them or block if I want to.
brent In advanced settings I elected not to share any data with them.
I am fine with that. If you find what Firefox has for security as fulfilling for your needs that is great, I don't get picky, I might suggest anyone reading this at least look into Firefox, Waterfox, TOR if you want to go this route, or what you would consider secure. If interested in a Chrome alternative I have used Vivaldi, it has been stable for me, Chromium, stable just like Vivaldi in my experience.
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brent If they circumvent that, oh well.
if they did that they might aswell pack up and delete their project imo.
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Fatih19 Most use firefox for the added power it gives people, be it plain ui customization or privacy for example - Windows is another story and haven't profiled themselves as privacy oriented exactly and dont quote me but i dont think Microsoft arent hiding the fact that they do some data collection even if you disable it when you install.
iirc the scale was: 3; everything, 2; a shitload or 1; just alot! /s
Justin There is a main difference though.... One is open source and thus code can easily be audited, the other adds some proprietary blocks and has a business model largely based on leveraging user data.
So I fully agree that Mozilla is not perfect and doesn't always take the good decisions nor is always as transparent as it could (silently enabling some features for testing without the users knows unless they visit their blog), but what @3ImWeckla claims is just misinformation (fake news as would scream a guy with a ridiculous haircut) based at the best on some inaccurate info.
Also the option "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" which is one of the main criticism, is not enabled by default in Solus.
People quickly forget that Mozilla invest lot in privacy protection, they organize campaign, educate, sponsor many projects and they are the last offering an alternate engine to WebKit/Blink. So free criticism based on some nothing serious at the best or on lies (Mozilla finances & privacy chart are public and much easier to read than the ones of most other companies) are just harmful and would just help damaging the only alternative to the web engine monopoly.
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I prefer chromium under most circumstances. Falkon is very snappy however, just wish for more extension support.
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nayshun Falkon
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Harvey good afternoon friend excuse the inconvenience because I could install the new version of the opera now see that they already have to take another 2 or 3 versions more new that and installed and I was researching and if I mistake not a tool called solbuild this new system will allow to create packages solus in a fast and easy way with this I can transform this new version of opera from the formato.deb to eopkg and install it using the terminal to update you web browser ?? Thank you very much in advance
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solbuild is Solus's build system. Yes you can make packages for Solus with it, but its not exactly super easy, It's not a just push a button sort of system. But if you'd like to learn packaging https://getsol.us/articles/packaging/
If someone else hasn't already done it, I will look at updating opera again.
Harvey well is that nothing is easy as well as your work in the climb the operates and why thank you already that my I like more opera than any other web browser and if you learn it touched me to learn and at the end of this anexare the last launch of opera Thank you very much really
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Update has been submitted https://dev.getsol.us/D6157
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