Best Firefox alternative, in flatpak version, for another distro (Openmamba)

Thanks for the info! It is quite astonishing the difference. They mentioned something about their build environment but that comment is from 7 month ago. No further comment from @ohfp. Maybe they are working on it, still?

I use the flatpak of LibreWolf. I haven’t done any performance benchmark.

it’s true that brave in Flatpak sometimes have issues, i’m using Brave for a long time now with no worries
you should rather install it this way , if you so choose

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I already use it on EOS.

I wanted a flatpak alternative for another distro other than EOS.

oh ok , i see now that Openmamba is not based on any linux distro , it’s independant …
so yea ,not sure if i can help
ungoogled chromium maybe ?

For now i use librewolf flatpak, i’ll see on the openmamba forum if i can do something.

Chromium is present in the distro repository, but i would like to avoid using it.

This is almost never the case. In most cases, the binary packages in the AUR come from official sources.

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ungoogled chromium is not chromium

Right, my mistake.

The ugoogled chromium version is only available via flatpak on Openmamba.

well that’s what i thought you’re looking for , an alternative FLATPAK option

Not sure how this single test (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/) can be relevant but the result for LibreWolf -the-Flatpak was not as good as for Firefox. For both browser a clean profile was used.

LibreWolf <------> Firefox

I wonder what the real world impact of that is?

I doubt most people could notice the difference between 0.12 seconds and 0.075 seconds. But if it was 10 times that it would become noticeable.

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Yes, the difference is probably unnoticeable in everyday use. I was a little curios because it was mentioned that LibreWolf binary was less performant. I am going to do the same test for ungoogled chromium (flatpak) now :slightly_smiling_face:

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Zorin OS 17.3 got released today and they ditched Firefox for Brave

More info:

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Do you use it with a vpn ?

For me Librewolf scores are equal to Firefox, once I enable webgl from settings

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without a VPN

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Nice catch! Of course, WebGL is disabled on Librewolf by default. So that was it.

i used librefox & floorp for privacy librefox would be best idk about floorp only used for a week now, i personally didn’t like how librefox kept removing my cookies and stuff so im using floorp right now (yes i know you can disable the cookies thing its disabled but sitll happens so i cant be asked to try fixing it XD)

fox or wolf?

my bad librewolf XD

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