Short answer is NO, at least not out of the box, it’s only marginally better than Chrome, Also, Mozilla gets most of its revenue from Google, and recently Mozilla cozied up with Meta, formerly as Facebook, or maybe Meta cozied up the Mozilla. I will leave others to suggest all the other secure browsers, but I want to focus on Firefox. While you are at it, take a look at Firefox 100 which dropped last week. Here is a interesting take from Tech Republic.
There is a lot you can do to harden Firefox under the hood. Sun Knudsen is a privacy researcher in Canada and done extensive work on security but also teaches how to harden Firefox.
Firefox 100 is not exactly brimming with groundbreaking new features, but it’s certainly a lot snappier and now I can find the vertical scroll bar in my failing eyesight. The security settings will work on any build of Firefox from say 98+ I am sure there are plenty of advocates of Brave, Vivaldi, and Firefox forks like Librewolf, etc, etc, but as a foundation once I stripped out Firefox which for an open source project, has tracking enabled by default,
I have been using Firefox on and off since the hangover days of Netscape Navigator. Of course that was a clunky slow experience, but so was the rest of the Internet with 14.4k modems, so the browser speed was not your main concern.
The reason I have used Firefox all this time is because I can bifurcate web browsing traffic for the day-to-day web surfing. I usually browse and use forums in Vivaldi, but as I said I am not a big fan of all that bloat, so it’s now more like an operating system than a browser. Vivaldi has taken to an almost daily rolling release-like model, but they keep adding new features no one is asking for or interested in using, on almost a daily basis, and its just getting bigger and slower with each update.
When it comes to server work, well that’s different: I am constantly connected to multiple servers during the day and I just need a browser to run fast and stay out of my way while giving me full connectivity. So each server connection has it’s own sandboxed account. I use a Mozilla addon called Multi Account Containers. Firefox does that part well, once the security and privacy settings are tweaked a bit more. Then you can add a piece of javascript to stop tracking in Firefox https://github.com/arkenfox
What do you think? Agree, disagree, have a better way.
Over to you…