Took maybe 10 mins to get Waterfox set up just now and it imported my bookmarks and passwords from Firefox! In case anyone else has been considering it the last few months like me.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.
Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but "number must go up" mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.
What's wrong with librewolf?
No mobile version
Fennec is the closest thing to a mobile version of Librewolf. It doesn’t have all the privacy and security tweaks as Librewolf but it’s far better than mobile Firefox.
There’s also Firefox Focus but it’s more difficult to use as a main browser since it defaults to wiping all traces of history and settings after each session.
IronFox also.
IronFox is LibreWolf for android. IronFox is the best maintained version of a android Firefox fork. You can find it on the Accrescent store. IronFox combines best parts of Fennec and Mull making them actually reliable. While those two haven't reliably worked for me, IronFox has.
I value features over privacy, so I prefer waterfox to Ironfox.
You don't need to head to about:config for this, it's right there in the settings GUI.
Now it prioritizes its own suggestions.
The article talks about search suggestions. Those are from the search provider, not Firefox.
I've always had them disabled. It's not like I need suggestions of what to search for or what I may want to search for.
There are search suggestions and there are also Firefox suggestions. You can see them both in the settings separately.
Not normal for me but I recently opted in to Firefox's telemetry so they could see all the trouble I'm going through to turn off their new features in their reporting.
Will it change their mind? Probably not. But at least it'll be there in the numbers