Always like to test out default installed browsers against browseraudit.com.
Score :
- Passed : 396
- Warning : 35
- Critical : 0
- Skipped : 0
Not too shabby
First I’ve heard of browseraudit, thanks for sharing!
EDIT: For comparison I got the same scores on Firefox (duh) and the following on Edge.
Score :
- Passed : 392
- Warning : 39
- Critical : 0
- Skipped : 0
Bonus! Browserbench.org speedometer 3.0 scores:
- Firefox; version 132.0.1 (64-bit)): 13.9
- Firefox nightly; version 134.0a1): 18.6
- Zen; version 1.0.1-a.17 (Firefox 132.0)): 17.6
- Edge; version 130.0.2849.68 (Official build) (64-bit): 19.8
When developers consider their project at “alpha” stage, users should really be wary of the consequences.
So much hype around this browser and everyone touting it, but then, if something breaks and their profile is messed up, then people lose their mind and start cursing the devs.
tldr; It’s an alpha build software, and users should treat it as such. Latest build is Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.17 (2024-10-31)
I’m always skeptical when something is called privacy focused and the article lists no privacy features.
Does this actually provide any new unique privacy features or is it something akin to arkenfox where it is just getting everything upstream from firefox?
When I first heard about Zen, I’ve tested it with EFF like I do for all web browsers I experiment with (from most mainstream to most unknown). Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer a full privacy.
Not everyone cares, but if this is something important for you, Librewolf has been the only one to come up with a full privacy protection result. Maybe you could achieve a good result if you use Arkenfox with Firefox… I didn’t try it.
Some sites don’t load because of some features disabled in Librewolf. You can enable them and have the sites load, but it defeats the purpose of the Librewolf configuration choices. Nonetheless this is still an option :)
