Firefox gets all their operating funding from Google’s Search agreement. This prevents FF from protecting user privacy as it’d jeopardize their primary source of income.
Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.
It is the slow and uses a lot of RAM, but despite all these thing it’s the second most popular for a reason (kept alive as an easy way for Google Chrome to avoid anti-trust)
> Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.
Have you heard of LibreWolf ? It is basically FF without the telemetry and with a lot of privacy and security features [1].
I've been using it for 2+ years and I'm very happy with it. The transition from FF to LibreWolf was seamless.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked for alternatives, and I remember coming across Ice Weasel and similar forks in the past, but they had slow security updates. I will take a look at Librewolf.
Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.
It is the slow and uses a lot of RAM, but despite all these thing it’s the second most popular for a reason (kept alive as an easy way for Google Chrome to avoid anti-trust)