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Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Tradeoff question—
Should I expect to find some semblance of safety in sticking with the largest open source browser project I can find, given perhaps the eyeballs etc., or would you reckon not (or even perhaps the opposite, security through obscurity & Umbra is “safer” than Firefox)?
Maybe this is so “lightly” forked it’s “just” stripping + cosmetics & the risk profile is essentially identical?
Umbra doesn't add any security flaws to firefox. Every security fix applied to firefox esr is also applied to Umbra.
That makes you different eh? Love that. Means I could actually use it :D