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Is there a better Firefox fork for macOS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/macos@lemmy.world

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It seems like Firefox crashes all the time on macOS. When you exist (⌘+Q) it says it crashed and wants to send a report back to Mozilla. I just realised I've been doing that for the 3 years I've been a Mac user, and Mozilla still can't be arsed to fix the problem. I'm beginning to think their code is not well ported to ARM64 and they don't care enough to fix it.

So now I'm wondering if one of the Firefox clones, which would be built from source, might be better ported to macOS.

Yes, I could use Safari, and I don't hate it, but I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, so like 20-25 years? Safari is completely different. My biggest gripe is that it doesn't support free ad blockers, but I did pay for Wipr2 so that should alleviate the issue. There are ad blocking options on Safari, but I don't think they're quite as good as uBlock Origin on Firefox.

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[–] Actionberg@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can try Librewolf or Waterfox. Librewolf is better on privacy ( like fingerprinting ), Waterfox quicker. And both have no Ai on board. You should use them with UBlock and I would not install to many extensions.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do you happen to know of any Firefox fork that lets you self host a Firefox login server? I quite like the convenience of being able to sync tabs and browsing history between devices. But I guess if not I can just use KDE connect to send clipboard to copy paste the URL at least instead...

[–] Actionberg@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

No. Librewolf and Waterfox let you use the Firefox Sync if you turn it on in the settings. But I don't know about any self hosting.