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Aside from the fact that it's relatively new and unknown, does this hold a candle to other Firefox-based projects? They seem to be competent by their own comparison tables.

Has anyone got any first-hand experience?

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[โ€“] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It looks reasonable with their table. Not sure if I want to try it though, enabling a lot of the privacy features like resist fingerprinting often breaks login flows, and breaks dark mode detection on sites. It also does some stuff like disabling URL bar suggestions that really impacts usability.

Overall I'd say these things are only worth it if you don't use your browser to do normal every day things like banking, shopping, and watching media.

[โ€“] jamesbunagna@discuss.online 1 points 14 hours ago

enabling a lot of the privacy features like resist fingerprinting often breaks login flows

True. Though, in this case, it's only enabled on hardened. So, the default config doesn't enable it.

and breaks dark mode detection on site

Yeah, that's really unfortunate. I suppose there's Dark Reader. But, I believe Arkenfox' maintainers held the opinion that a bandaid solution as such did more harm then worth it. At least for those that enable RFP for the sake of fingerprint protection.

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