Not that I don’t think it’s a dumb move from Mozilla, but the options right now are:
Stay with Firefox
Move to a Firefox-based browser
Especially since I use Mozilla’s services I’m sorta in their ecosystem right now. Maybe once I’ve moved passwords off I can consider moving, but even then on Android the only browser that supports uBlock is Firefox afaik, which makes it my YouTube client of choice.
I ended up going from Firefox to Proton Pass – and even though Proton is doing some sus things as a company politically, moving off Mastodon, etc., it was painless to export passwords from Firefox, import them into Proton Pass, and then use the Proton Pass extension / app across all devices.
It’s unfortunate for Mozilla, their password manager was the first I ever used, but they let it lag so far behind they lost me as a user. Proton is way better. I’m sure other things are too.
I mean if Im on mozilla’s code im on mozilla’s code no matter what fork that is. Feels like decrying a policy in Arch Linux so you move to Manjaro.
Of course there’s no real alternative engines either. Either Chromium where they’re shuttering Manifest V2 or Webkit which is under Apple so until Ladybird is up there I’m not sure about migrating to a fork.
also, the new ToS does not apply for the source code, so forks are relatively safe for now.
relatively, because librewolf is being kept alive by its automated build processes and relatively good maintainability, and what else is there other than the young forks like zen and floorp
Chromium has much worse issues. that engine never really had any advantages in privacy either, on the contrary: uBlock Origin (not lite) has a wiki page on its github repo that talks about some of chromium’s disadvantages for addon capabilities, and that was written with Mv2 in mind.
Nope.
Not that I don’t think it’s a dumb move from Mozilla, but the options right now are:
Especially since I use Mozilla’s services I’m sorta in their ecosystem right now. Maybe once I’ve moved passwords off I can consider moving, but even then on Android the only browser that supports uBlock is Firefox afaik, which makes it my YouTube client of choice.
100% recommend moving off firefox’s password manager, as it’s generally much more insecure than something like Bitwarden
I gotta set up something on my home server fr
I’ve been using keepassxc for the last few years.
It’s just an encrypted file you sync however you like. I use syncthing.
I ended up going from Firefox to Proton Pass – and even though Proton is doing some sus things as a company politically, moving off Mastodon, etc., it was painless to export passwords from Firefox, import them into Proton Pass, and then use the Proton Pass extension / app across all devices.
It’s unfortunate for Mozilla, their password manager was the first I ever used, but they let it lag so far behind they lost me as a user. Proton is way better. I’m sure other things are too.
Ideally, but bitwarden is a great in between solution, you can always export everything later to your self hosted solution of choice.
VaultWarden, selfhost bitwarden server
a password manager is better.
you don’t need to move to a non-firefox based browser. Honestly what would you move to, chromium?
I mean if Im on mozilla’s code im on mozilla’s code no matter what fork that is. Feels like decrying a policy in Arch Linux so you move to Manjaro.
Of course there’s no real alternative engines either. Either Chromium where they’re shuttering Manifest V2 or Webkit which is under Apple so until Ladybird is up there I’m not sure about migrating to a fork.
also, the new ToS does not apply for the source code, so forks are relatively safe for now.
relatively, because librewolf is being kept alive by its automated build processes and relatively good maintainability, and what else is there other than the young forks like zen and floorp
https://beehaw.org/comment/4268300
Chromium has much worse issues. that engine never really had any advantages in privacy either, on the contrary: uBlock Origin (not lite) has a wiki page on its github repo that talks about some of chromium’s disadvantages for addon capabilities, and that was written with Mv2 in mind.
and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.