Hello everyone, given the latest update of Firefox policies, I ask for advice on the alternative to this browser in the flatpak version that would guarantee free use and privacy.
I ask for the flatpak version because the distro where I would like to install another browser is Openmamba, and the only alternative from the distro’s repositories is only Chromium, and it doesn’t seem like a great deal to me.
Other browsers like Brave, Opera, or LibreWolf can only be found via flatpak. As for Brave in the flatpak version, I read around that it has some problems, or in any case it’s not the best.
So, in your opinion, which browser in the flatpak version would guarantee free use and privacy and not cause problems in general?
Many privacy thinking users will say LibreWolf. A Firefox fork with many privacy tweaks.
I use it, the flatpak version, and I am very content with it.
If you want to read more: https://librewolf.net/
I left the settings alone (GASP!) because they were all pretty strict and to my liking. all google and pocket ripped out.
The single change I made to Mullvad was to add noscript extension to the stock ublock extension.
❯ yay -Ss mullvad-browser-bin
aur/mullvad-browser-bin 14.0.7-2 (+54 7.76) (Installiert)
Privacy-focused web browser developed by Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project
Brave is perhaps the best chromium-based browser when you think of privacy stuff. Many people don’t like it because the company Brave has done suspicious things in the past. It is open source so these things should come to light.
In my eyes, what were suggested as a Firefox alternative is not what the OP has asked for. Either Librewolf or Mullvad are way more oriented towards privacy & security. Which could be potentially bad, eg, if you simply want just all websites to work. Or not having your browser cache deleted.
Brave is a good suggestion , but Chromium-based, if the OP doesn’t mind.
This leaves us with either Floorp or Zen, provided someone asks for a direct FF alternative.
*** A good option, too, is using an Appimage… personally, I prefer them over flatpacks (actually, I’ve never used any).
Never knew LibreWolf to cause any problems. Ever. OP did ask about privacy. I will admit this is a much more general question than the one I thought I had skimmed over..
Nothing personal, mate. Actually, the title of the thread reads " Best Firefox alternative, in flatpak version, for another distro (Openmamba)". And the OP asks for "given the latest update of Firefox policies, I ask for advice on the alternative to this browser ".
That said, Mullvad & Librewolf are NOT literally just an alternative to FF, but an “upgrade” to a security & privacy focused FF derivatives.
PLEASE DO NOTE that I never said that either of them causes ANY PROBLEMS. What I said (& repeat it once more) is some “inconveniences”. Not because they’re “bad browsers” but due to the nature of hardened browsers in general. That’s all.
Cheers
Having re-read my two sentences, over and over, I can’t see why the defensiveness. I thought OP query was general and you thought it specific. And we are really splitting hairs, apples to apples about “inconveniences” here. We both offered alternatives in our earnestness to give OP insight.
Did not mean to strike any nerves in the least. Perhaps I wasn’t clear, I apologize. Cheers.
Apologies on what grounds? As you have pointed out we both offered alternatives. Mine was a clarification between the plain, normal, for general-use FF & its fortified derivatives.
So…apologies …access denied.
See you round.
And thanks to the Garuda team it is as easy as sudo pacman -S librewolf to install librewolf from chaotic-aur repo. This chaotic-aur package is based on the aur version of Librewolf, which is better performing than the -bin version, because they have a slightly different path of origin as communicated on the librewolf webpage - see here: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source ( section LibreWolf overview, Source tarball for Unsupported markdown vs. Linux binary tarball for Unsupported markdown).
Surprising for me was that the -bin version of librewolf does not come straight out of its aur package.
I always thought every bin package on AUR is pre-compiled out of its aur version.
