Now I use Waterfox, so naturally telemetry is not an option, and Mozilla wouldn’t really want data on it anyway. I had telemetry on when I used Firefox proper… telemetry in and of itself doesn’t have to be bad, if you trust the company to do the right thing with the data, and what is being collected. Mozilla is IMO seriously misguided in their belief that imitating Chrome is the way to get people to switch (thankfully, they had different ideas when the goal was to get people away from IE 6), and they’ve behaved foolishly at times, like with the tie-in to some movie promo they clumsily pushed out to unsuspecting users, but they’re still IMO the closest thing to good guys in the browser arena.

Despite Mozilla’s insistence that they had to jettison the classic addons to make Firefox faster, Waterfox remains just as fast as Firefox after all this time on the very same benchmark (SpeeDOMeter 2.0) that Mozilla used to claim Firefox was twice as fast as it had been several versions ago (a claim I verified on my own machine). I use Waterfox because it allows the large library of classic addons (the kind that defined Firefox from its birth until almost two years ago) to keep working. I wouldn’t select Waterfox based on that alone, personally.

Why would your school be concerned with which browser you use?Īll of the telemetry stuff in Firefox can be turned off, and it really means off when you say off.

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