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Android: Ironfox (BEST OF ALL) and Cromite Linux: Librewolf, Zen, and Ungoogled Chromium Anything Apple: Orion Windows: Anything from Linux section
For future reference keep an eye on Servo, and I guess Ladybird too
Recommend all that!
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Librewolf is so awesome that microsoft refused to serve me a win10 iso because I was unknown with my vpn off and everything.
Thanks for the links. I’ve heard of Librewolf but never tried it. Will give it a spin.
Vivaldi is chromium... It's also not FOSS. As with most the other people in the comments, I'd suggest Librewolf, though I'm looking into going back to regular Firefox with a custom user.js for added security.
I would use Mullvad Browser for browsing as it has very strong anti-fingerprinting/tracking and Brave/Librewolf (or a different privacy Firefox fork) for anything that you need to be logged in for.
LibreWolf is a Firefox fork hardened for privacy. I suggest to disable the cookie and history deletion for it to be more usable. It has a more tradicional UI than Zen.
Thanks for the info. I’ve seen Librewolf recommended a lot but also found a lot of threads of “normies” complaining it was a pain to use daily. I’ll give it a spin!
If you don't disable the cookie autodeletion, it is indeed a pain to use.
I will try it out this coming week and let you know. Appreciate the info!
It needs a bit of fine tuning for daily use, but it's nothing cryptic: If you don't want to save all cookies, then you gotta add exception to sites you want to stay connected to (unless you are ok with having to login every time you enter a site). I think saving history is disabled by default, and this is quite inconvenient. You also gotta allow saving passwords if you want the browser to have them.
I use 1Password so I’m guessing Librewolf handles Firefox extensions? Should be fine there.
I don’t mind logging in every time actually, but yeah I can take a look at those settings.
Yes, Librewolf runs Firefox extensions just fine.
Oh, before "setting in", test out all the sites you need to use regularly, because of its hardened fingerprinting protection webgl and webgpu are disable, also canvas and other scripts, and I believe they completely stripped the browser DRM checks, so some streaming services won't work as well.
Zen is Firefox but really pretty and with a ton of added functionality and customization.
I was quite fond of Arc so the layout would work for me. How does the privacy compare to say Librewolf which is what others are recommending?
I’ll check out their website. Would be awesome if they had a mobile browser. I’m not sure what to do there. I’m on iOS.
Not on PAR with that. I would recommend Mullvad over Librewolf though. Not to say that there's anything wrong with either.