Comment by dietr1ch

1 year ago

I uninstalled Firefox this morning after reading about these sus af changes.

Tried Librewolf and found it to be great,

  - No Pocket bullshit.

  - I forgot I had the start page set to blank only because Firefox was fixed on ruining it while forbidding using a custom one.

Migrating took me 20m, and I'm glad I did it because it left be a backup of something that so far only Mozilla kept for me.

  - Exporting/Importing bookmarks takes 20s. (Ctrl-Shift-o, export/import).

  - Exporting passwords is simple (Preferences, search for passwords. Alternatively just go to about:logins).

  - I had many extensions to install, but the ones that need heavy customisation all had export/import. Migrating passwords was easy through a (totally not safe) csv file.

    - The only troublesome extension was Video Download Helper, but after re-running `vdhcoapp install` I figured I just needed to copy `~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/` into `~/.librewolf/`.

I'm kind of stuck with Android. I don't know of an alternative, but haven't spent time looking for one yet.