Honestly, I'm interested to see if it can make it past my security. It's a good time to try. I might reinstall a new OS due to a pernicious Arch network issue and a DNS leak that connected me to a fucking Google server recently. Taking risk before wiping us better than after installing.
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Would be cool to hear how it goes if you do!
It looks like Konform is a nice choice. Anyone tried it?
Daily-driving it now. I think it's great. If you're somewhat familiar with the landscape otherwise I think readme explains how it's different and why. If you don't mind losing out on some "safety"^1^ and latest upstream features^2^ for the sake of a more stable and predictable base, not having reliance on proprietary integrations or even internet, and really removing all non-essential network integrations, then definitely worth a try!
^1^: A surprising amount of people think (or at least write online) that a browser that doesn't block user requests completely aligned with the Google SafeBrowsing blocklists is unsafe and that doing those syncs is an essential feature. If you think this is the only safe default option in 2026 I'm sorry but please consider uBlock Origin. See how opinions on who to trust can affect what "most secure" means. Konform Browser removes many assumptions of trust. But not all; Everyone still comes with an assumed PKI after all and there exists a default for DNS.
^2^: Since it's ESR base it means new feature updates from Mozilla ~yearly instead of ~monthly. Still receiving security updates on the rapid schedule. No AI features out of the box.
Disclaimer: Am konform dev so shouldn't be a surprise that it's working well for ourselves I guess. Eager to hear to what extent it's overfitted for our usage or really as great as I think it is ;)
BTW if you, dear reader, think queries in report of results are cherry-picked in a way that favors it (I don't think they are but hey, fair), I'm also eagerly accepting input and especially PRs for queries (still have the raw dumps so I can add this quickly) or steps to test procedure (this means I have to rerun all of them so might take longer to update) that could illustrate different tradeoffs and show a more complete picture. Bring it on <3
I'd really love to see some Blink based browser comparisons, especially Trivalent (which is supposed to be compareble to Vanadium).
Oh, thanks for reminding me of Trivalent, I realize now I've come across it before but totally slipped my mind. If/when testing for chromium in place I think this can be interesting to sample next.
And also Dillo and Netsurf.
What are you curious about with Dillo And Netsurf? Isn't it safe to assume at this point they will both be 0 across the board for all the queries in the report?
I think we need a different testing protocol for them to be interesting to include. AFAIK they don't have add-ons that could be interesting to test either? Do you have any suggestion for step(s) you think could be added to the test in order to make those meaningful to include? Or is my assumption about Dillo and Netsurf out of date?
No, you're right, it would be pointless. Although Netsurf has a bit of JS support now.
if you remove mullvads vpn app what do you see?
Assuming you mean the Mullvad extension (which is installed by default in MB) and not the Mullvad VPN app (which also exists but never came close to these machines) :)
That will indeed likely make a difference on Mullvad Browser numbers. However for now I'm not changing the "keep addons at stock defaults" invariant or the test matrix might get really out of hand.. Should we disable uBlock Origin in LibreWolf? How about uBO or NoSccript in Mullvad then? Konform Browser loads uBO but only if its apt package is installed; should we do that? What happens when we try to explicitly opt out of everything under Preferences in Firefox? I guess the last one is something to actually consider but for now not touching the addons.
(Would be super cool if anyone else tries this out and reports back though! The compose should hopefully be straight forward and easy to get started with if you are on Linux and have podman available. The report mentions it TL;DR we had to work around the oBO install in LW not properly utilizing the proxy (?) like this and I think same approach could be used to Uninstall Mullvad extension from Mullvad Browser and prevent it from even loading)