Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Congratulations!
Tradeoff question—
Should I expect to find some semblance of safety in sticking with the largest open source browser project I can find, given perhaps the eyeballs etc., or would you reckon not (or even perhaps the opposite, security through obscurity & Umbra is “safer” than Firefox)?
Maybe this is so “lightly” forked it’s “just” stripping + cosmetics & the risk profile is essentially identical?
I came here to ask the million dollar question, they answered it on their GitHub.
How we are differnt from Librewolf? Umbra uses the built in firefox password manager instead of recommending extensions. Netflix works, and we do not enable RFP ( resist fingerprinting ) by default as it breaks many web pages. We also have an Umbra Control Center ( about:umbra or bottom left in setting menu) that allows you to set many privacy settings and set profiles for individual web sites. ( may be more differences just the top of my head)
Nice. Now - how does it differ from IronFox?
I'm not super familiar with ironfox. Currently we're only available on Linux/windows. We don't use profiles at all.
Cool project. Will it support existing extension?
Yeah it supports all firefox extensions. We kept the parts that don't spy on you.
Will it support sync between devices as well?
If you want hardened Firefox with sync you could use Librewolf.
Thanks.
I don't like browsers phoning home, even when it's convenient. You can import history/password from another browser.