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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoLibrewolf’s automatic cap at 60hz (anti-fingerprinting measure, I know, but annoying AF), and elements that break websites usually are the parts that turn people away. I’d rather use something like IronFox or Waterfox instead and just customize them.
Sorry for a casual, what do you mean cap at 60hz?
I just use Firefox on Ubuntu, which fifteen years ago seemed like enough.
Which also doesn’t seem that casual, but this shit is too much to keep up with. Today my engineer dad was complaining about search engines having too many ads and I asked what he used, and he said besides Google on the one computer he uses Bing on the other.
60hz is a measure of screen refresh rate, so a cap of 60fps max, no matter the screen’s actual capabilities.
As an electrical engineering student myself, I worry about your dad lol
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Not sure how that’s any different than disabling anti-fingerprinting in Librewolf. It’s literally one switch.
To me, the value is in the assurance that Librewolf is never going to follow any of these kind of stupid trends, the way it demonstrates they’re actually putting me first, not major websites nor themselves. It’s not about their features or configuration out of the box, it’s more about their demonstrated priorities and decision making process that gives me confidence.
I’m not so familiar with IronFox, maybe I should check it out too, but I do know Waterfox has made a number of… questionable decisions in the past. It was literally owned by an advertising company (System1) for awhile, which was very alarming.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Ironfox is pretty much just for android, it’s essentially the Librewolf model but has less aggressive default settings.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Ah, I am a 99% desktop user so that explains why I’ve never really heard of it. Sounds like a good option for my phone, not that I ever use it.