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Meh, until there is an actually good alternative to Firefox with a mature extension ecosystem I'll continue to use it and just disable the new features I don't like. I have tried a bunch of the alternatives and they're all either massively lacking in extensions, are chromium-based, or are sketchy in some way. I think the most promising potential replacement is flalkon, but it's not there yet and I'm a GTK Stan anyway.
Any gecko-based fork will have everything good about FF (including the addon store) and none of the Mozilla corporation. Waterfox for a seamless de-mozilla'd fork (and nothing else) or Librewolf for extra hardened privacy and fingerprint resistance (plus daily annoyances that come with that).
I switched from FF to WF about a year ago. Copied over my profile folder in its entirety. Didn't do anything else. Everything worked exactly as if I'd just updated FF.
You know I don't think I ever checked out waterfox. I'll give it a look.
After about a year with the browser, I'll cheerlead it in every thread about Mozilla Corp getting in bed with another ad company or pushing anti-features "that you can toggle off so it's fine!" into the browser. All the benefits of Firefox as a platform and code base, with no corporation that could profit from you in any way involved. No mandatory ToS, no account, no nothin'. Just a tool for browsing the web, with the full ecosystem of extensions made for Firefox.