• @NightOwl
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      41 year ago

      And foxes are cool animals 🦊 Way cooler than whatever a chrome is.

      • TWeaK
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        31 year ago

        Firefox is actually a red panda. Which frankly are even cooler than foxes.

        • @NightOwl
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          11 year ago

          https://support.mozilla.org/nl/questions/988854

          philipp Moderator

          the name “firefox” comes from the red panda & the icon apparently from a fox, so you’re both right in a way. a little bit of ambiguity and people discussing the brand of the browser seems to be quite a likeable thing to maintain ;-)

      • DreamySweet
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        21 year ago

        Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating) is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object. A chrome plated part is called chrome, or is said to have been chromed.

        Chromium is a chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in group 6. It is a steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal.

    • aeternum
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      01 year ago

      You’re lying to yourself if you think Mozzarella Foxfire doesn’t have telemetry. I’d recommend Waterfox if you’re wanting no telemetry

    • figjam
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      01 year ago

      I use multiple browsers to contain work and not work footprints.

      • Dav
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        11 year ago

        If you didn’t know, firefox has ‘containers’ where you can open a tab in, for example, a ‘work’ container and it won’t carry the cookies over. Lets you log into multiple accounts on 1 browser (like personal email & work email etc).

        Doesn’t have seperate history though.

        • @wseda22@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          I learned about containers less than year ago and kicked myself for not learning about them sooner. Containers in Firefox truly are a godsend.

    • Aatube
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      01 year ago

      I use Waterfox because Firefox actually does steal my data but Waterfox doesn’t.

      • @Distributed@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Waterfox was sold to system1, an advertising company. It also doesn’t immediately release patches that are released in upstream Firefox.

        Use a hardened Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js

      • Peruvian_Skies
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        01 year ago

        Honest questions: what data does Firefox steal and why Waterfox over others like Librewolf?

        • morva
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          31 year ago

          Firefox has telementary on by default which you can easily disable in settings.
          And imo waterfox is worse than Librewolf as it was sold to system1, a advertisment company

          • @Distributed@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            Librewolf lags very far behind in staying up to date with security patches. Use regular Firefox hardened with Arkenfox’s user.js