thanks for the research. I just quickly tried them all. I have an older mac with older FF. Results: librewolf and waterfox wont run (10.15 min) and the floorp (react) website crashes. IceCat runs! and seems to use LibreJS for javascript, so my first few tests failed because you have to individually allow scripts per site. I quite like that idea! although my quick test of breakout (HN yesterday) runs slow/stuttery. A couple other sites are throwing up js console errors, so I need to play around with it more. It did enable me to access the floorp website, but also 10.15 min. I guess this helps me migrate faster to my asahi setup, although I've been trying to keep that one away from daily browsing and the little web of horrors.
I wonder if this FF change is pre AI infection, which might end up affecting these other builds too. Pretty disappointing after such strong privacy promises for so long, whatever the reason for these changes.
> I have an older mac with older FF. Results: librewolf and waterfox wont run (10.15 min)
That's just because Firefox itself requires at least macOS 10.15. IceCat only works because it's based off of Firefox ESR; once the next ESR comes out IceCat won't work either.
There is a fork of Firefox (which is in fact the web browser I use) that adds back support for older versions of macOS. At the moment, it supports all the way back to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. However, this is all it does; it does not contain any additional privacy features above and beyond mainline Firefox. However, I guess it technically isn't a Mozilla product, so you won't need to agree to Mozilla's Terms of Service.
I wonder if this FF change is pre AI infection, which might end up affecting these other builds too. Pretty disappointing after such strong privacy promises for so long, whatever the reason for these changes.