Given that Mozilla has lost the plot lately, what kind of browser should I switch from Firefox to?

@KinkyKobolds I’d love to know what you end up going with because I’ve got the same questions, hah.

@KinkyKobolds I've asked myself that question often.

Chrome is more optimized, especially on Linux. But Firefox has multi-account containers and I don't give that up for nothing.

@kenji_ Total cookie isolation is the big thing for me as well. I like knowing that things are split up in a way that correlating what I do on one website with another website is significantly harder. But if Firefox is introducing tools that give partners privileged access to information, far as concerned, they've broken their own security model.

@KinkyKobolds What are you talking about? What did they introduce that does that?

@KinkyKobolds If I had to choose a Chromium browser I'd personally probably go with Vivaldi. It's enough of its own identity, has features I care about (sidebar tabs is a huge thing for me)...

I just wish any of them could manage to do the 'container tabs' thing that Firefox does so well, but I don't find myself using that much anymore now that I'm off Twitter.

@KinkyKobolds uBlock Origin will become less efficient in future version of Chrome and it means more work for the maintainers of derivatives to keep UO working, or implementing their own solution.

@Hiro Yeah, I'm aware that those changes are coming soon. If ad blocking doesn't work correctly then it's a non-starter for me. That's not just a privacy thing; it's an accessibility one given how distracting ads are.

@kenji_ Total Cookie Protection became a default more than two years ago.

tl;dr - Every website gets its own cookie jar. Third-party cookies work but only in the context of that one website. Thus, even if a tracker or social media platform slips through the cracks, they'll see each website I use as a separate entity rather than a cohesive profile.

@KinkyKobolds Well, pardon my ignorance, but how is that a bad thing? From the way you worded it, I thought Firefox was adding something that would make it easier for advertisers to spy on my data. This, from my understanding, makes it harder.

@kenji_ I was concurring with you on the fact that various session isolation tools exist in Firefox, do not exist in other browsers, and that it is a good thing that Firefox has those tools. I was just saying that even without explicitly setting up separate containers, Firefox keeps things separated.

However, this new AI nonsense appears to break that model. At the very least, you cannot choose to run it in a container; it will always run in the default one. It's not clear what other cookies it'd be able to access.

@KinkyKobolds What did Mozilla do now?

@Hadynpark They're adding AI chatbots directly to the browser and making zero comment on the security/privacy implications of doign so.