Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love Zen.

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  • U@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Zen user here also. Awesome project. Beautiful and useful browsing experience.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are all out of date, updates just take longer to arrive including security patches. Just use base Firefox and configure it as needed.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Always the answer until it goes to complete shit. Folks will always suggest other forks, but in the same breath describe them as subpar compared to Firefox base. FF is still best, just tweak it a smidge, browse away.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    LibreWolf seems pretty fast about it. The difference is only ever a matter of a few days for routine updates.

    For example, it looks like Firefox 141 with the AI stuff was released on July 22, a few weeks ago.

    My LibreWolf install is 141.0.2 My Firefox install is 141.0.3

    That difference is worth it to me to know that various things I don’t want have been removed from the code entirely, and that I can keep a completely default install of Firefox and/or nuke and replace that install whenever necessary.

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is always the answer I go back to with Firefox. I just don’t see a benefit to switching (yet) to another version of Firefox.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been using LibreWolf for a while and it works pretty well

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• rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like Floorp. it’s a FF fork by a Japanese dev team. Best I can compare it to is Vivaldi as far as customization (what Mozilla will allow).

  However the updates for it have been coming less frequently over time so I’m not sure how that bodes for the long term.

  But hey i’m currently building my own FF fork with fediverse integration, tree style/stacking tabs, and vim navigation sooooo look forward to that? /shameless self promotion.

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am using LibreWolf. It’s probably the best fork out there.

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• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can only answer that last question with Waterfox, as I’ve been using it for something like a decade.

  My other browser is Vivaldi because of the tab stacking feature makes organising, uh, …stuff… easier…

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use vanilla FF, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Mullvad in the FF family (plus Vivaldi for Chromium) - I only use vanilla FF for anything that I want to use persistent logins and containers for, so it’s like an hour a day at most. I only installed the update 36 hours ago, do other than set bookmarks, I haven’t searched anything with FF to give it the opportunity to recommend anything.

  In the settings, there’s 2 boxes you can un-check about recommendations. Seems pretty easy to disable this.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Firefox-ESR.

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have zen and librewolf on linux and waterfox on android.

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• melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Waterfox on mobile and floorp on desktop.

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• callyral@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Librewolf, with the Cascade CSS theme. I used to use Zen Browser but honestly I don’t really like vertical tabs that much.

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