Gecko based web browsers

[sidetone]

Everyone is familiar with www/firefox and its esr flavor. There's a few other browsers in FreeBSD ports which also rely on the Gecko framework, and are also based on Firefox, which in this list happen to be security or privacy oriented:

• www/waterfox
• www/librewolf
• www/tor-browser

You can see this by typing
grep USE_GECKO /usr/ports/www/*/Makefile

I'll try Waterfox as my default browser. Mullvad and Zen are two other Gecko browsers not available in FreeBSD ports at this time. Palemoon was once a Firefox based browser in ports. Maybe Waterfox will be enough.

I ditched Firefox for this privacy-focused spinoff with better features

Waterfox is the Firefox alternative I didn't know I needed.

www.xda-developers.com

For Chromium along with Chromium based web browsers, start/use another thread.

 

[Phishfry]

I'll try Waterfox as my default browser.

Skip that one and go straight to LibreWolf. It is the superior build.

 

[fmc000]

Librewolf has been my daily for many months, no complains whatsoever.

 

[nxjoseph]

I think that Librewolf is good for people for those don't want to configure Firefox to be like Librewolf themselves, I use Firefox because I think I already do what Librewolf does to Firefox. It's not hard either, there's a site to prepare a hardened profile for your Firefox, https://ffprofile.com.