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Have you tried Librewolf or Waterfox? I switched to Librewolf about a month ago, after 25 years of using Firefox. Some people say Librewolf breaks websites, but I guess the websites I use are not affected since I haven't run into any problems so far.
+1 for Librewolf. I couldn’t load Google Earth but that was no surprise. They also don’t allow telling websites to use dark mode to prevent fingerprinting, which sounds neat after getting used to it.
Wait what? They don't allow websites to use dark mode to prevent fingerprinting? I had firefox warn me Lowes was asking for my biometrics back in 2020 or so. Wtf? Are these websites grabbing my iris scans and fingerprints without me knowing it?
Fingerprinting refers to a technology which can identify you via multiple attributes without explicitly logging in. Like if you use a niche browser with dark mode on, preferred language lithuanian, keyboard layout russian and screen resolution full hd. Combined those and many attributes like installed plugins can be used to identify, and its called fingerprinting.