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Is there an optimized version of Firefox that removed Pocket and other unneeded features? Does it use less memory?

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[–] zephyr 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] hal_5700X 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can go to about:config and set extensions.pocket.enabled to false. After that you need to restart Firefox (closing it and opening it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Librewolf for Linux. Fennec and Mull for Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Librewolf is one of the more prominent ones these days. There's also Waterfox, which is based on an ESR (so, older) version of Firefox and likewise fits the bill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Libreworlf. It also strengthens Firefox privacy features with flags and disbles the Firefox telemetry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] Librewolf is probably the best firefox alternative/fork that removes unneeded features and improves your privacy.

https://librewolf.net/

[–] DetectiveSanity 1 points 1 year ago

You can use this guide to configure Firefox for privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Check out one of the privacy-focused Firefox forks like LibreWolf, IceCat, or Waterfox. All three disable/rip out pocket by default, I believe, and reduce number of situations they phone home to Mozilla or Google. Memory savings are minimal though.