> I'd focus on privacy.

I would love that. that said, right now firefox unstoppably and constantly phones home

Does this not work anymore? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...

I've been perfectly willing to spend an hour making countless changes using about:config to beat Firefox (or its forks) into submission on every install, but that only works while they continue to give us the ability.