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Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by DoingIsLearning on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:42AM (#43203262)
> I recommend switching to an alternative browser which is only a browser, like Dillo, Ladybird, or Netsurf.

Did not know any of those alternatives thanks for sharing.

After a quick online search, I see they could work for casual browsing and it's great that they don't rely on Chromium

But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?

Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by justinclift on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:46AM (#43204151)
If you're on macOS, then Kagi's Orion seems good:

https://kagi.com/orion

It's been working fine for me anyway.

Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by ac29 on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:38AM (#43207559)
They are working on Orion for Linux this year as well
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by justinclift on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:31PM (#43213999)
Thanks, that's extremely good news. :)
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by DoingIsLearning on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:36PM (#43222816)
I pay for Kagi and I would definitely pay for Orion on Linux.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by knowitnone on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:55PM (#43208454)
interesting they have resources to build a browser. also interesting (and sad) they focus on Apple and not Windows. Hopefull, they'll port it to Windows and Linux.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by isametry on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:03PM (#43210818)
Worth mentioning that Orion is fully based on WebKit. Calling it a “Safari wrapper” would be unfair, but it’s also not extremely far from that either.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by osmsucks on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:42PM (#43208305)
Firefox was the last bastion of freedom on the internet and the replacements aren't ready.

> But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?

I'm now actually trying to use qutebrowser as a replacement... it's not easy due to the lack of extensions, but mitigating factors are:

1. it has integrated adblock (though no cosmetic filtering) 2. there are userscripts to integrate with the Bitwarden CLI or a running instance of KeepassXC.

Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by account42 on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:47AM (#43242237)
None of these three are currently suitable for casual browsing unfortunately.