One is based on Ubuntu, the other on Debian. I wouldn’t recommended and don’t like Ubuntu myself cause of their decisions in the FOSS world

Recommend you Linux mint.

But preferably use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) instead of Mint based on Ubuntu

Pls format your posts it’s so much easier to read

Basically if you don’t want Tor reliance it’s surely that you are not that privacy focused in your use case :)? So there is not really a point of using live/disposable os… But if you still want to, use any Linux live/testing USB installer Linux mint, fedora and more provide it ;-)

Couldn’t figure how to use the equalizer of strawberry

Great news hope to see Wayland being more popular

So it’s the same as if your were using a fork nah? The only difference is that mozilla does know that you use a Firefox browser because telemetry is disabled

So you recommend people to use the google search engine? :(

I understand completely your point of view but I wouldn’t use the stock Firefox as it’s not private enough and it has really bad features

And do you think that most Firefox users donate to Mozilla?

Using Firefox (even a fork) supports the work of Mozilla, like using chromium browser support the work of google

Explore the Arkenfox user.js and you’ll see all things that can be improved in Firefox

Even when using forks of Firefox you are contributing to the Mozilla project and can support it as well Using librewolf is better than using chrome in term of support for the main devs Mozilla

Privacy, simply better, better anti-fingerprinting. Sure you can do it with stock Firefox but it’s just simpler to have a pre-hardened browser

That’s what I said

If it’s not for me then you are free to stay with stock firefox

You’re right but first don’t worry the biggest part of people use stock Firefox and secondly Firefox stock is just not as private as a fork

Should retry it and make your own decision

Surely there will be some delay but not that much, for most updates the fixes are transplanted directly to the downstream project making the patches coming very fast, almost as fast as the original project

Understand your point of view but in fact the 2 problems you mentioned are mainly not problems :

1 - Updates? The main downstream browsers received updates the same time as Firefox the same day and sometime the same hour

2 - Benefits? The benefits are mainly under the hood, removing Mozilla telemetry and annoying features (account, pocket…) AND the biggest advantages are the gain in term of privacy due the increase of anti fingerprinting methods

They are better in most of the case, Firefox only is not that good…

Mullvad browser, simply I used to used hardened Firefox but a pre-hardened one is so much more efficient