submitted 2 years ago by skymtf@pricefield.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have been using Waterfox for some time now, and I generally really like it, and since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox and Librewolf. However I did recently become aware that it's owned by an ad company, my general question is have they done anything spooky yet? also while this might come off as a general paranoia are the accounts I logged in using Waterfox safe

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[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

They recently became independent again https://www.waterfox.net/blog/2023/07/03/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.fmhy.net 4 points 2 years ago

They recently became independent again https://www.waterfox.net/blog/2023/07/03/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox

[-] skymtf@pricefield.org 2 points 2 years ago

woooo!

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox

I'm interested because I'm a KDE fanboy: I've looked at some screenshots and I'm seeing regular old Firefox. What's QT about it?

[-] skymtf@pricefield.org 1 points 2 years ago

QT is the gui framework that all KDE apps are built in

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah no thanks, I knew that. My question is what is QT about it. In the screenshots it doesn't integrate into KDE at all. It's just plain Firefox.

[-] skymtf@pricefield.org 1 points 2 years ago

Mine seems to intergreat, has the KDE title bar and such, rather than Firefox which is just the GNOME ones

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

No Firefox uses GTK.

You can disable SSD (server side decorarion) to get the in-line buttons, in the "customize appearance" screen bottom left.

[-] skymtf@pricefield.org 1 points 2 years ago

Oh cool!

[-] jxrdsn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

System1 is the same company that owns StartPage as well, interesting. Glad to hear WaterFox is independent again though.

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