I moved off #firefox and onto #waterfox. Some things I discovered that I really like -
1. All #telemetry is turned off, and the options are disabled, so there is no way to turn them on.
2. It comes with native side tabs support, so there is no need to install Sidebery or the like. When you open side tabs, the top tab row disappears automatically (which was not possible to do in Firefox). There are some nice options like an option to pin the current tab automatically.
3. Drag drop files works again! My firefox install had this annoying bug where I couldn't drag files from the desktop to a web page. This works flawlessly in waterfox.
4. Installation was a breeze with flatpak. I copied over my profile from firefox, and everything worked out of the box, including #DRM (e.g. netflix).
I also tried #librewolf and DRM did not work out of the box with it. I overall much prefer waterfox.
@jonn It's a FOSS firefox fork that's been around for a while, and is available through flathub.
That said, none of that makes it 100% safe and I should have probably considered the possibility of malware and used it for a bit before bringing my firefox profile over 🤷