Trying to move away from FireFox.

I know that there is LibreWolf and GNU IceCat.

What are the pros and cons for each?

I tried GNU IceCat and I don’t know how to install extensions. How to get extensions for GNU IceCat? Is it easier on LibreWolf?

I need the following extensions:

  • ublock origin
  • send to MPV player
  • privacy badger
  • Distraction free youtube
  • Unhook
  • LeechBlock NG
  • Privacy Badger
  • Tab Session Manager
  • KeePassXC-Browser
  • vaguerant@fedia.io
    10·
    21 hours ago

    Just to compare, Waterfox has over 5000 contributors.

    I am 100% certain that this count includes Firefox contributors, not direct contributors to Waterfox. None of the Firefox forks are massive projects with contributors into the thousands. I would expect Waterfox to have a similar number of dedicated contributors to the others.

      • vaguerant@fedia.io
        11·
        20 hours ago

        Yeah, those are almost exclusively Firefox contributors. e.g. Emilio Cobos Álvarez is a Gecko engineer at Mozilla, moz-wptsync-bot is a bot Mozilla uses to sync web platforms tests, Ryan VanderMeulen is the Firefox release manager at Mozilla.

        Since their commits show up in the Waterfox commit log, they are Waterfox contributors, but only because it’s a fork and they contributed to the upstream project, Firefox.

        LibreWolf and IceCat aren’t on GitHub (officially), so I’m guessing it’s just a difference in how different code trackers report contributors in forks or something.

        • Showroom7561
          4·
          19 hours ago

          Thank you for the info. I made assumptions for sure.

          The silver lining is that the OP has more than two alternatives regardless 😀