I've finally decided to switch from LibreWolf to Falkon. Here is why.
When I was a teenager and first came over to Linux, I was using the Opera browser. I really loved the features of it, such as its minimal sidebar and speed dial. Of course, anyone who is serious about privacy knows not to use the Opera browser; At the time my perspective of privacy was merely using DuckDuckGo because I thought it was just Google you had to worry about. It turned out it was a free vs. non-free software issue, at least until recently. Opera was nice, but once I saw the bigger picture the next logical step was to use Firefox because it was free software. I used Mozilla's Firefox from 2017-2023 or so when it was well into the crappy "Quantum" phase or whatever its called. You see, despite Firefox being free software, it had all sorts of telemetry baked in and turned on out of the box. That combined with Mozilla turning from a free software organization into a glorified leftist activism gang led me to use LibreWolf, which was relatively new at the time and was just Firefox with all the telemetry and crappy extensions like Pocket disabled out of the box.
LibreWolf had its own share of issues though, maybe not noticeable in the product but LibreWolf's furry developers are perfectly fine with the rot of far-left political rhetoric leaking into their browser. Just recently, I witnessed the LibreWolf developers effectively declare themselves as part of the woke mind virus in their own Matrix room. They said transphobes should die a horrible death. Does that mean anyone (the vast majority of the world) with enough sense to know men shouldn't enter women's private places or join their sports teams should die horribly? If you ask me, free software should neither be woke nor non-woke, politics should never be involved in something where the common goal is free software. I could care less if somebody has the woke mind virus, putting "she/her" in their name, if it means they don't force it onto you. But this virtue signalling does no good for software, and if it couldn't get any worse, Mozilla has conveniently removed a lot of their "we don't target you with ads" promises from various places readying themselves to become another ad company like Google. They have become the very thing they sought to overcome.
And this kind of stuff will likely leak into LibreWolf, but even if it doesn't, I don't feel like using something where it's a one party state in the realm of a free software project. For these reasons, I switched to the Falkon browser from KDE. I am a big fan of KDE software, and they don't shove politics into everything they do. I've tried Falkon off and on in search for something that reminded me of Opera and Falkon is close enough. It even has a speed dial. Falkon is also the best looking browser that is actually usable today in terms of its layout, and it actually looks like its using its toolkits widgets. Another one I found aesthetically pleasing even these days is Seamonkey, but unfortunately it uses such an old verison of Gecko there's no way to use it on a daily basis. Falkon used to have web page layout issues like Seamonkey, but it seems the QtWebEngine backend has been updated and it can load websites like Github just fine now. This now makes it a full replacement for LibreWolf, and if you use either Firefox or LibreWolf, I suggest giving this browser a shot. Its lighter, doesn't track you, and most importantly, there's not a drop of political rot in it.