I’m currently using Librewolf primarily, as it has good out of the box privacy settings. I really just added Ublock Origin on top of it. I’ve recently seen another uptick in Zen recommendations though, and I must admit that I like the UI. I’m sure it has worse defaults than Librewolf, so what are the things I should probably apply and what extensions should I download for some extra privacy?

And is the browser even any good beyond the initial impression?

  • Manalith@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    As others have said, it’s my daily driver. I like the vertical tabs, sessions, and pinned tabs. I saw someone mention you can’t watch TV or Movies through it, but I haven’t had issues with any of the main streaming sites, or the more unconventional free sites that exist, but yeah you will need to make adjustments for it to match LibreWolf privacy-wise

  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Ublock is added by default to librewolf, unless you installed it in an unconventional way.

    When it comes to zen I haven’t really seen a compelling reason for it. I care about privacy more than functionality, but I don’t really want to go about hardening a whole new browser.

    I have found that using PWAs with librewolf as the engine is very in lign with my mental image of how to run things.

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Zen is basically Firefox with different UI. It is a security/privacy downgrade from Librewolf. You can configure Zen to have the same security/privacy settings by putting about:config in the URL bar change some of the toggles.

    Use either the Arkenfox (also available in the interactive live viewer online) or Phoenix user.js as a template. Basically: disable WebGL, set WebRTC to disable nonproxied udp, disable JavaScript JIT, enable privacy.resistFingerprinting (optionally enable privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing for screen fingerprint protection) and some other things.

    Phoenix has some configs for Zen iirc which you can just patch. It is less strict than Librewolf when it comes to fingerprint protections (softening some of RFP’s protections).

    If you want to test that the fingerprint protections are working, use this test site by Arkenfox called TorZillaPrint.