Thread 106327146

Firefox exile here, despite firefox degeneration these last years i still want to use gecko and all the firefox extensions

what forks are actually good? i care about speed and low footprint.

>>106327146 (OP)
look up the betterfox user.js project.
They have tweaks that improve the speed for firefox. They have a sane default user.js file but also nice documentation to help you add more stuff depending on your needs. Whether you want more speed, more privacy, less annoyances, etc.
Anyway, look it up foxbro.

>>106327250
but does it solve the giant memory leak i'm having?

>>106327277
>giant memory leak
no idea, is that a common issue with firefox?

>>106327146 (OP)
Maybe this isn't the answer you want to hear, but tinkering and building your own is part of the fun. And there are a ton of resources online to help you do that. I don't know if there's any proper pasta for it, but here are some links:

>Profile Maker:
https://ffprofile.com/

>Pre-made stuff you can borrow from:
https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
https://codeberg.org/Narsil/mozilla.cfg
https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix
https://git.nixnet.services/d3cim/mozilla.cfg
https://github.com/ran-sama/firefox-preferences
https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

Userchrome.css stuff:
https://www.userchrome.org/
https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts

>>106327146 (OP)
Either Firefox with Betterfox, or GNU IceCat.

>>106327250
>>106327324
>>106327338
>profile autism tweaks
>just remove the bloat urself, anon
no, no, and no.
>librewolf
no
>palemoon
no
>waterfox
yes
>profile autism is already shipped
>shit features are already stripped
>no turbo-privacy autism(librewolf) that makes the browser a pain in the ass to daily drive

>>106327324
this is good information. thanks.
if i also can get rid of all the AI stuff, that'd be great. i think this is taking up loads of memory even though i flicked a few switches in about:config

>>106327362
ok. waterfox has been recommended multiple times too. i will give it a spin

>>106327362
>waterfox
>owned by a literal ad company
lol, lmao even

>>106327362
Google Chrome Nightly with dev telemetry enabled is for you, kind xir!

>>106327146 (OP)
only use two extensions so far.

ublock-origin and violentmonkey (written my own script with the help of AI) massive win.

>>106327391
>written my own script with the help of AI
What kind of script and what AI? The last time I tried, it just gave me confidently wrong answers and I gave up.

>>106327386
man, you're so retarded. in the past yes. but the original dev have taken back the control. no more ad company.

>>106327386
if you think youre better off entrusting your most used program to unpaid neets, go for it.
also, the best vpn company provides the most secure browser
https://mullvad.net/en/browser
almost like neets cant do shit

>>106327146 (OP)
ESR 128 here because they fucked the chrome css editing.

>>106327146 (OP)
Firefox is now better than ever

>>106327301
maybe its me who went overboard with the extentions. but also, i'm worried about those llms who are shipped now.

>>106327405
I written (reduce animation (universal), dark-mode (universal), nitter (blocked-user and hashtags) & redirect), auto full article (some website use pagination).

I use 3 (chatgpt, copilot and deepseek)

>>106327405
its a skill issue, u need to understand a basis like
"use local storage to store data"
"wait for this element to exist by monitoring dom changes, then proceed to step 2"
youre still programming at that point, treat it like that. meticulously charting it out for it, then it will puke out the code. if you were extremely detailed, it should work first run. 9/10 it does for me. (not that anon by the way)
also a good habit is to ask
>before you output any code, plan the execution and give me options to choose from
that way you can see its gameplan and make A,B,C choices for how you want it to implement.

>>106327375
I don't have a complete guide for the AI stuff, but if you disable all the telemetry available in the settings, it should already disable some of the experimental stuff (the Mozilla Labs thing or whatever it's called). You can tell that it's off because the category will be missing in the settings and about:addons will only show your own addons.

As for about:config, I do have some settings, but my notes are a mess:

>browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
set to false

>browser.tabs.groups.enabled
if you want to disable groups entirely

As for the chatbots in the sidebar, I have the following notes written down:

Disable chatbots in Firefox: Settings > General > Show sidebar > Right click > Customize sidebar > uncheck Ai Chatbots

>Or: about:config:
browser.ml.chat.enabled false (default is true)

>Bonus:
"browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false

Sorry if I forgot anything, my notes are a mess.

>>106327453
Nah, Firefox has memory issues. It's good to close it and reopen it every once in a while. It's far from a unique issue though, plenty of apps work that way, unfortunately. I'm not excusing it, it's just the truth.

Also, extensions shouldn't normally be a big deal even if you have a significant number of them, unless you have one that's bugging out. For example, I let Malwarebytes install their extension and it completely nuked my performance, even simple tabs were taking ages to load. And Dark Reader screws up and gets stuck on some pages, but it's rare.

>>106327539
yeah memory issues arent rare. like discord being in a call for awhile. i downloaded the fking standalone app just to try to make that more efficient, so thats electron and chrome. and it still fucking bugs out after awhile.

Troonfox is broken again

>>106327623
Huh, I never had that happen. I did have issues with it deselecting the right-click context menu while browsing through bookmarks, but I assumed that was due to me enabling compact mode. Do you have it on by any chance?

Also, I changed so much shit throughout the years that I can never truly blame Mozilla for anything anymore, I have no idea who broke what.

>>106327663
I don't have compact mode enabled.
Just right-click on a link and hold it. I don't know, maybe it's a KDE bug.

>>106327623
>using lunix

lmao. use windows anon. just works

disabled more than half of extensions, is definitely much snappier at start. memory usage is acceptable again. will monitor to see if it grows abnormally.
incorporated betterfox config.

realized i didn't do something like this in a while.

>>106327952
you should enable them again
then go to about:processes then run a profile on them as you navigate around for a bit. you'll be able analyze details and see which extension exactly is the hog.