LibreWolf (@[email protected])
chaos.social
9 Posts, 1 Following, 2.7K Followers · A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. This account is managed by the LibreWolf team. Its purpose is to mostly be used for announcements (important changes, updates, etc.) concerning LibreWolf. Please report issues at: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/ Check our documentation and FAQ at: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/ Talk to us and find a supportive community on: https://matrix.to/#/#librewolf:matrix.org

Finally people will no longer be confused with this Lemmy community and accidentally post here.

  • kixik@lemmy.ml
    1·
    54 minutes ago

    Well @[email protected] used to post in here, and he was an active Librewolf developer, see his first post on this community his first post on this very same community, and he still is one of the moderators, though I believe he’s no longer around, 🙁

  • sevenoverthree@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    How does Mullvad stack up to librewolf? I set up portable builds on all of my Windows desktops.

    I wanna make the switch from Firefox as my daily, but damn it, the syncing is fucking glorious. I’ve got two PCs and two Android devices. And it really is great.

    I am so goddamn finished with this enshittification.

  • thatKamGuy
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Honest question; is there any potential downside to switching to LibreWolf from Firefox? e.g. should all my addons/browser Extensions still work?

    • fin
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      If you care about usability, I’d recommend Zen browser. Not as hard as Librewolf but it’s not owned by Mozilla.

    • thisismyname@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      From a usability perspective it’s not as good as Firefox. But from a privacy stand point it’s much better.

      What I mean about usability is that due to it trying to prevent you from being fingerprinted it opens the browser in the same size window everytime, regardless of whether you prefer maximised or not. It has dark mode turned off. It doesn’t remember cookies unless you explicitly manually add an exception. From a privacy perspective these are all good things but for convenience they’re not.

      All of these mild inconveniences can however be turned off if you wish. Just be aware you won’t be browsing as securely then though.

      As a Firefox replacement in all other regards, it’s pretty much the same software. No, it is the same software.

      If you use Linux and a password manager you may have an issue getting flatpaks to speak to each other and you also may have to move a folder from .mozilla to .librewolf to get them to speak to each other. These are easily searchable issues if you have them with simple fixes though.

      Tap for spoiler

      DM me for more details if you run into this issue and need help

      In all other regards, to me at least, it feels just like Firefox

      • thatKamGuy
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Thanks for the in-depth reply, I truly appreciate it! I’ve loaded a Bazzite installer onto a flash drive over the weekend - but ran out of time, before I could switch NVME drives to install…

        More privacy is a good thing, so happy to roll with some minor inconveniences - but Dark Mode is definitely a relatively high priority for me; so I’ll have to figure that one out once I get up and running.

        Already prepared to run a secondary (Chromium) browser for compatibility and Vivaldi seems to be getting recommended a lot recently — at least from a de-Google / de-US perspective.

      • thatKamGuy
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Does it work with Firefox? Have you had any luck spoofing your UserAgsnt to Chrome?

        I know I already have issues logging into a SAP-based system with Firefox to view/download my payslips, so I already need to use a Chromium-based on occasion as a back-up.

          • kixik@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 hours ago

            What’s the error you get? Perhaps someone has dealt with it before. What overrides have you tried?

            There are several things that might affect some sites and are more troublesome than others, for example:

            • security.OCSP.require
            • webgl.disabled (if changed to false it’s recommended to use the CanvasBlocker extension)

            ublockOrigin can give trouble to some sites, a quick test is to temporarily disable it and see if the site works. It can be investigated further what specific filter might be affecting the site.

    • tpyoman@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      As I understand it Librewolf is basically Firefox without Mozilla and almost all extensions I care about and use work perfectly.

      I also believe you can import your Firefox configs into Librewolf without any hassle.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    69·
    10 hours ago

    Okay, so how do you install it on an android phone? No fdroid, no playstore entry…