I would stay away from chromium forks in general. Google is doing some underhanded stuff using web manifest v3, not to mention all the bastard stuff they are doing in general.
I am very curious not only to hear the answer to your question regarding FF forks, but also why they get rated that way.
exactly, we cant be going by vibes here. lets talk about specific metrics and then say ok, well these metrics are important, and this one has the ones I want.