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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by hulitu on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:34PM (#28963035)
No http, no ftp, sends browsing data to google by default (safe browsing), DoH trown down the throat. I'm tired. Pale moon is better.
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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by pja on Friday October 22, 2021 @06:13PM (#28963426)
The Safe browsing implementation is designed with the intention that Google can't infer the URLs of sites you visit from any queries sent to them: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...

Obviously you have to trust the FF Devs, but you're already doing that by running FF in the first place.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by bitwize on Friday October 22, 2021 @06:06PM (#28963351)
Pale Moon is good, but its slow JavaScript engine means it gets bogged down to a halt on the modern web -- and this problem will only get worse.
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