<story><title>My essential Firefox fixes in 2022</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/my-essential-firefox-fixes-in-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>My essential Firefox fix is Librewolf.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unlike many Firefox forks, it tracks modern Firefox. I believe they run a similar set of tweaks to Tor browser, just without the Tor. This is quite nice. It’s autoplay blocking has actual teeth: I’m delighted when YouTube’s annoying autoplay-next-video is foiled by it.&lt;p&gt;Since it is smaller and from a less well-known group of developers, I can totally understand this being untenable. But the added risk is worth it for me, because while it isn’t perfect, it feels like I have gotten a little slice of control back with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>Came here to state the same, for a few years my firefox fix was to use waterfox[1] instead of firefox.&lt;p&gt;And now my best firefox fix is to use librewolf[2] instead of waterfox instead of firefox.&lt;p&gt;I had enough of mozilla treating me and my business like sh*t when the silently dropped alsa support on a ESR release and justifying by saying linux distro package maintainer should have not disabled our surveillance and tracking and no one wants to work on ALSA as it is a mess, turns mozilla code was a mess and in a matter of days someone came up volunteering to do the works they refused to, but then they switched their stance to say it&amp;#x27;s too late they&amp;#x27;re not going back to alsa just deal with it.&lt;p&gt;So I dealt with it by switching to waterfox which supported alsa with no plan of stopping and allowed firefox extensions to keep working.&lt;p&gt;When will mozilla stop hurting its own product by trying to make it the same as google&amp;#x27;s browser and mistreating their user base and supporters ?&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.waterfox.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.waterfox.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; 
[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>My essential Firefox fixes in 2022</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/my-essential-firefox-fixes-in-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>My essential Firefox fix is Librewolf.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librewolf.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unlike many Firefox forks, it tracks modern Firefox. I believe they run a similar set of tweaks to Tor browser, just without the Tor. This is quite nice. It’s autoplay blocking has actual teeth: I’m delighted when YouTube’s annoying autoplay-next-video is foiled by it.&lt;p&gt;Since it is smaller and from a less well-known group of developers, I can totally understand this being untenable. But the added risk is worth it for me, because while it isn’t perfect, it feels like I have gotten a little slice of control back with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>Have you heard of freetube[1] ?&lt;p&gt;I find the experience way better than vanilla youtube in a browser. It allows to remove all youtube annonyances (autoplay, comments, suggestions, ads, in video ads, and more) and tweak a number of things.&lt;p&gt;Only a couple downside for me, the playlist support is a bit shaky and once in while a video will fail to load or start and requires closing and reopening the window.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freetubeapp.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freetubeapp.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>