Good morning, I was looking for another Firefox fork browser to have as a “Backup” to Firefox and so that I can test out new extensions so that I don’t risk Firefox which is my primary browser. The new super secure browsers I’m referring to: Mercury and Floorp I did some searching and I couldn’t …

[image] Average_Joe: Mercury has never been mentioned in ths community? It has. [image] Thorium Browser, Thorium OS hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Why? Mercury doesn’t even deliver on its performance claims: https://www.phoronix.com/review/mercury-fi…

Looks like mercury is on 123 which is many versions behind upstream. Not acceptable security practice. Not sure what floorp offers over standard Firefox other than a funny name.

As far as i know, the main appeal of Floorp is its very Vivaldi like feature set. Providing lots of features people miss from chromium based browsers in a Firefox based package. Security wise though i’m pretty sure floorp doesn’t do anything special.

[image] redoomed1: [image] Average_Joe: Mercury has never been mentioned in ths community? It has. Thorium Browser, Thorium OS - #5 by SkewedZeppelin I appreciate your replies! I just came across another 2 Firefox forks that supposedly improve on the main Firefox browser: Pulse: htt…

I think unless it does something really extraordinary like tor browser it’s not really going to be worth mentioning any more Firefox forks.

I appreciate your reply! I’m getting the exact same feeling as you… there are just so many Firefox forks out there now! :scream: :scream:

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Sorry! lol I was just so surprised there were so many Firefox forks that claim to be more secure and better for user privacy!

[image] Average_Joe: I was looking for another Firefox fork browser to have as a “Backup” to Firefox and so that I can test out new extensions so that I don’t risk Firefox which is my primary browser. You could use profiles in Firefox

[image] fria: Not sure what floorp offers over standard Firefox other than a funny name. Some UI stuff that some people want (akin to Vivaldi) and more settings exposed in the GUI that would be about:config settings in Firefox. But I don’t know of anything that Floorp offers that make it rele…

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