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Firefox 144 adds profile management... and AI slop search engine
(www.firefox.com)
Perplexity AI Search in Firefox
On desktop, Firefox now includes Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser. Perplexity delivers direct, conversational answers to complex questions, helping you get quick summaries, accurate references, or creative inspiration without digging through multiple sources. It’s rolling out worldwide from the address bar via the unified search button.
Again I must go into my 100+ line firefox configuration and remove this shit.
Forks imply that the labor and expertise that Mozilla's engineers provide are replicated. This is not the case.
What we have are downstream distributions of Firefox, still beholden to whatever direction that Mozilla wants to take FF. This is why I'd still recommend using Mozilla Firefox with a profile configuration that sets everything to your liking since you don't have to trust downstream distributors.
True, but let's be real, if the Firefox devs ever decide or are forced to remove about:config, we are all truly effed in the a.
Then you'll have to use GNOME Web lol. There's some people working on it.
I know... hence the
especially after chromium but I heard vanadium is great but I don't have graphene
Vanadium is.... fine? It has a lot of security hardening and a little privacy stuff, but inadequate ad blocking and no extensions. The best choice for a general browser on Android is IronFox, a hardened Firefox distribution. I save Vanadium for sites that need Chrome.
This only applies if you know what every setting in your config does, and you don't use an install script. If you're blindly running a config script or copying a profile, you still need to trust a third party the same amount as you would for a downstream.