Desktop:
+ Librewolf (Codeberg)
+ Waterfox (GitHub) (Also available for Android)
+ Mullvad Browser (GitHub)

Android:
+ IronFox
+ Fennec F-Droid (GitLab)
+ WebLibre (GitHub)

LibreWolf

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Please report issues to https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues.

^Codeberg.org

I had to switch away because of incompatible websites (Cloudflare hates it) but Pale Moon is still hanging around.

Source available here.

Pale-Moon

^{Pale Moon repositories}

If you want to sidestep firefox, all firefox descendants would eventually pose the same problem. So I think many options others provided are suboptimal in that regard.

I'm keeping my eyes on ladybird:
github.com/LadybirdBrowser/lad…
ladybird.org/

But it still is in its early stages.

GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser

Truly independent web browser. Contribute to LadybirdBrowser/ladybird development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Tldr: Zen is Arc Browser before they went AI brain worm but firefox based.

I like Zen browser because of their workspace thing. There's pinned tabs, but with zen each workspace can have its own pinned tabs. I still van set a global pinned tabs for all workspaces. And they work great with firefox containers. Each workspace can have a default container. So that way my work workspace can have only my work google account signed in, and my personal only with ny personal etc.

But ine of the major bugs though is that sometimes your tabs can just go poof. Had it happened to me earlier in the year, managed to restore my tabs somehow. Reported the bug but I don't see progress on the issue tracker as far as I ca understand.

If syncing netween desktop and monile is a concern, zen still uses firefox sync.

You made me read the Comet browser review, as I did not have the courage to install it myself.

Seems useful if done privately and under supervision:
- has an AI chat sidebar that can interact with what you're viewing
- can fill out forms (eg. you can dump unstructured text and have it fill, instead of copying field by field)
- it can browse the internet for you - you ask it a question and watch it browse pages to find one with an answer
- it can summarize the currently watched page. Which at first I thought was ridiculous but sometimes you need to get information from shitty bloated articles with 10 paragraphs of introduction

As long as it's optional and done right (eg. It can fill the form but it's me who submits it, and the model is running locally), sounds very useful. Also no reason why it can't be a Firefox addon instead of built in.

I'm sorry, but it's not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.

I made this prediction right when this was announced.

so long as it’s optional, local, and private.

... yes but also

• open source,
• open model,
• all annotations done with proper respect to
  
  • labor law (ideally verified by 3rd party)
  • IP

  
  

• clear on ecological cost
  
  • CO2 eq in model card (ideally verified by 3rd party)
  • analogy non technical user can understand

  
  

... which makes for a rather limited list.

My own constraints fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Coll… recommendations welcomed, both on such rules but also on models that do fit, if any.