This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox if the goal is to totally de-Google it, then that wouldn't be such a problem and it would overall be healthier for the web. I don't really understand the purpose of this titanic software engineering effort just to avoid... a default search engine setting?
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This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox if the goal is to totally de-Google it, then that wouldn't be such a problem and it would overall be healthier for the web. I don't really understand the purpose of this titanic software engineering effort just to avoid... a default search engine setting?
Someone tried to instigate that on Mastodon recently. It didn't work.
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
Spread the word. Contact the developers, ask them.
The forks I know about:
• Waterfox -- https://www.waterfox.com/
• Librewolf -- https://librewolf.net/
• Floorp -- https://floorp.app/
• Zen browser -- https://zen-browser.app/
• Mullvad -- https://mullvad.net/en/browser
• Konform -- https://codeberg.org/konform-browser
Others:
GNU IceCat – https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Mercury – https://thorium.rocks/mercury
I fear it would be hard to get some of the earlier forks on board... these are all based on much older codebases:
• Palemoon -- https://www.palemoon.org/
• Basilisk – https://www.basilisk-browser.org/
• Seamonkey – https://www.seamonkey-project.org/