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Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox (justthebrowser.com)
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[+] 12 points 9 months ago (22 children)
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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I’d recommend switching to something like Bitwarden for your passwords so you can take them with you and also switch your stuff around if you ever want to

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  • [+] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You can, and they sync with your Mozilla account. I had your reasoning when using Microslop Edge and Microslop Authenticator. I set up Bitwarden now and while it's not perfect, I do prefer to have full control of my passwords.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I've been using Librewolf for some months now. You can migrate your Firefox profile into Librewolf, that's what I did and it retained my passwords. I'm not very tech savvy but it does have some kinks, my browser clock is off I've tried tinkering with it but gave up. And especially with the Resist Fingerprinting enabled it seems to not retain my 2 factor id for sites when I ask it to remember me.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your browser clock is not off. LibreWolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser etc. set your browser's reported timezone to GMT to not reveal which timezone you're actually in.

    And I don't understand what you're talking about in the last sentence.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a cookie isn't being saved, so they have to enter their 2fa every time instead of having the site trust the browser

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Librewolf by default clears cookies on close, which is kind of annoying for anything with a 2fa login. It can be changed on the settings, but you have to know that's an option and the root of the behavior, which most regular people won't.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    your clock is off because you have resistfingerprinting turned on, so it puts you into utc+0 to prevent tracking.

    and you have to explicitly allow to save cookies for specific domains to not get logged out (check out the padlock icon in the status bar, there's an option to keep data for the domain you're on)

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    So can librewolf… its got settings!

    You can still use firefox sync as well

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    it's got settings

    Well yeah, Librewolf is basically nothing but settings.

    Firefox settings.

    Confuses me no end when people rage against Mozilla and then recommend a product that cannot exist without Mozilla.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Whats confusing about it? People took something that was going bad and made it good again. Thats the benefit of open source. Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

    Theoretically yes, practically no. Maintaining a secure modern web engine that's up to date with - and a part of - setting web standards is something that costs tens of millions per year. Sometimes this even spills into the hundreds of millions.

    Random fork projects don't have the resources to do that.

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