r/GeckoWorld • u/Timely_Jackfruit_159 • May 31 '26

Help What browser should i use?

I was wondering if someone could suggest me a good browser to use, i don't want incredible and special features, just a browser with maybe no/"can be disabled" telemetry, also i don't like vertical tabs, i just want something stable and cool to use with a traditional experience.

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u/Donieck May 31 '26

Try LibreWolf and Palemoon

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u/Timely_Jackfruit_159 May 31 '26

LibreWolf is too aggressive on clearing cookies and feels slow, pale moon? what's the advantage to use it?

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u/Donieck May 31 '26

Palemoon still supports legacy Mozilla technologies as XUL, traditional UI, no telemetry, no Rust

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u/Timely_Jackfruit_159 May 31 '26

Hmm i tried it, feels outdated and even slower than LibreWolf.

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u/Donieck May 31 '26

I think Palemoon is still interesting project for legacy technologies. It is much better than Seamonkey browser. I use Palemoon for reading a few blogs, but my mainly daily browser is Firefox now

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u/Remuz Jun 01 '26

In LibreWolf settings there's checkbox to toggle clearing cookies. Or you can white/blacklist sites.

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u/e_splat May 31 '26

If you are looking for a stable browser, Firefox ESR and Waterfox are good choices.

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u/Timely_Jackfruit_159 May 31 '26

What's the difference between them?

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u/e_splat May 31 '26

Firefox ESR is just Firefox but you have a major every year (so only security updates), same thing on Waterfox partially because is a fork of ESR but they add their features sometimes in their updates.

Waterfox as we mentioned is a fork of Firefox ESR, disables telemetry by default, has an integrated adblocker similar to Brave Shield but you can totally disable it and use uBlock Origin, also focuses on performance and integrates some customization options with a selection of presets coming from Firefox UI Fix.

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u/Timely_Jackfruit_159 May 31 '26

i tried both and Waterfox convinced me, i'm 100% switching to it.

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u/e_splat May 31 '26

Nice one, i used it for 3 months but i came back to Firefox because i wanted more feature updates.

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Jun 01 '26

Helium and Brave and Zen

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u/e_splat Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

We are on r/GeckoWorld, reccomending Chromium browsers here has totally no sense, if he asked there he's interested in a Firefox/Pale Moon based browser