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corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
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    Nothing. Ideally you’ll take a privacy hardened fork though, like Fennec or LibreWolf.

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      privacy hardened

      Can you elaborate? I looked at the page for LibreWolf and as best as I can tell they just change some default settings and add Ublock as a pre installed extension.

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        Yes, LibreWolf is basically just Firefox with tweaked default settings.

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      waterfox is great too

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      For android there’s iceraven and mull.

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        Isn’t fennec on android?

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          Yes.

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          I never used fennec.

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      Floorp is also great

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