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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by grey_earthling on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:27AM (#28784050)
LibreWolf is a soft-fork in this vein. Notably, it's on Flathub, so it's very easy to install.

=> https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Iceraven is a similar (less mature) project for Android.

=> https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

It would be nice to have a single umbrella project/brand, which could essentially treat Firefox in the same way Edge and Opera treat Chrome.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by magnaton on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:45PM (#28789728)
LibreWolf is also available as an AppImage. After reading this news today, I downloaded that AppImage, started it up and closed it down (just to create a profile folder), and replaced the default contents of the new LibreWolf profile folder with a copy of the contents of my existing Firefox profile folder. I then started LibreWolf up and went into Edit-->Settings and inspected all of those (they didn't carry over for some reason so I had to check and edit them manually). Other than that, it's working fine so far: my old tabs / extensions / passwords are all here, and I'm writing this comment from LibreWolf! (I've kept my Firefox profile folder for now just to be safe, but have otherwise uninstalled Firefox.)
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