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.

            [deleted] "Microsoft arent hiding the fact that they do COMPLETE CONTINUOUS HOURLY data collection AND EVERY KEY LOGGED even if you disable it when you install."

            Fixed it for you. Insert smiley face here 😀

                I prefer chromium under most circumstances. Falkon is very snappy however, just wish for more extension support.

                  [deleted] Once upon a time there was a fun little browser called Qupzilla. It became unstable and wiggy to the point the creators terminated the browser. Then fixed it up again re-branded it as Falkon, in the repos. Pretty sure that's the story more or less.

                    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

                        harelt

                        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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                                Must admit I've tried EDGE Dev Build (the ones with Chromium) and it's nice to use, basically because it's Chrome with a MS skin.

                                Justin On my laptop is better than Chrome. I can set the speed of scrolling in both browsers, but in Firefox is clearly superior. And Chrome's zoom is simply awful - I cannot stand watching the page resizing to the zoom I set.

                                  Harvey Ahhh perfect truth Hey thank you wait this update very grateful of you and the community 😀 😄

                                    I really do miss one browser : Web (Epiphany).