Technically speaking, I think most (if not all) of what Librewolf and Waterfox do is configuration changes as far as privacy is concerned. These forks just have those changes defaulted.
You could get basically the exact same result by downloading the normal Firefox browser and using the Arkenfox configuration script (or any other configuration script you like) to "harden" your Firefox configuration settings.
The downside would be that for every new browser version release you'd have to double check your configs and maybe reapply the script after it gets updated to handle new "features" Mozilla throws in, while with a separate fork like Librewolf that team should, in theory, be configuring their browser updates to set those new configs automatically for you.
Really? That's odd, 'cuz I do find Waterfox to run a lot more stable than og Firefox.
I sometimes go on some random autistic data hoarding sprees and when I do, I open a couple hundred tabs at the same time (literally at the same time, using an ad-on). It depends on the site, but where Firefox would croak at about 300 tabs Waterfox would chug along with about 4000 (it would take about half an hour to load, but it wouldn't crash).
The operative part of what I said being as far as privacy, I believe their changes are mostly just configuration. There very well might be performance improvements (or hell, perhaps the performance gains are simply due to the altered configurations), but the privacy benefits are mostly just configuration changes that you can replicate on any Firefox build or fork.
Technically speaking, I think most (if not all) of what Librewolf and Waterfox do is configuration changes as far as privacy is concerned. These forks just have those changes defaulted.
You could get basically the exact same result by downloading the normal Firefox browser and using the Arkenfox configuration script (or any other configuration script you like) to "harden" your Firefox configuration settings.
The downside would be that for every new browser version release you'd have to double check your configs and maybe reapply the script after it gets updated to handle new "features" Mozilla throws in, while with a separate fork like Librewolf that team should, in theory, be configuring their browser updates to set those new configs automatically for you.
Really? That's odd, 'cuz I do find Waterfox to run a lot more stable than og Firefox.
I sometimes go on some random autistic data hoarding sprees and when I do, I open a couple hundred tabs at the same time (literally at the same time, using an ad-on). It depends on the site, but where Firefox would croak at about 300 tabs Waterfox would chug along with about 4000 (it would take about half an hour to load, but it wouldn't crash).
The operative part of what I said being as far as privacy, I believe their changes are mostly just configuration. There very well might be performance improvements (or hell, perhaps the performance gains are simply due to the altered configurations), but the privacy benefits are mostly just configuration changes that you can replicate on any Firefox build or fork.
Ah I see. I misread that completely.