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Finally people will no longer be confused with this Lemmy community and accidentally post here.
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LibreWolf (@librewolf@chaos.social)
Finally people will no longer be confused with this Lemmy community and accidentally post here.
Honest question; is there any potential downside to switching to LibreWolf from Firefox? e.g. should all my addons/browser Extensions still work?
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.
In all other regards, to me at least, it feels just like Firefox
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.
Doesn't this make one stand out as "the person with the unmaximized/weird screen resolution"?
My banks website won't login on Lirbrewolf. Tried disabling every setting imaginable.
been using it for half a year now. you can log into your account, all the extensions are compatible, ublock is installed by default. ff store themes also work.
has no google search by default but can be added (still the best for searching pictures, otherwise im fine with qwant)
by default it deletes cookies, but that can be changed.
drm is also disabled by default, but turns out music streaming sites are just whinin, they dont really need it.
If you care about usability, I'd recommend Zen browser. Not as hard as Librewolf, though, it's not owned by Mozilla.
It’s a bitch to use with 1Password. I didn’t experience downsides otherwise so far.
Luckily, I am my own password manager - so that shouldn’t be an issue!
Huh, can you elaborate? I settled on Vivaldi for now but I don’t love that it’s Chromium
@kooltechlord I was just looking into this, as I just changed following the whole Mozilla fiasco. Wonderful!
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.
I assume you're specifically talking about Mullvad Browser, not just Mullvad in terms of, say, their VPN standalone.
I'd recommend you check out Privacy Tests for the specific details on things like tracking prevention, but to summarize, it's nearly identical to Librewolf in most common categories. However, since it's a fork of the Tor Browser, keep in mind that:
If you're cool with getting a little extra protection in exchange for those sacrifices, go with Mullvad. If you just don't want to use Firefox, but want a more private variant you can still use relatively easily in everyday life, go with Librewolf.
And remember, it's always okay to have more than one browser, where you use the more privacy-preserving one for sensitive tasks when needed, then drop to the less privacy-preserving one for more everyday work. You can always have both.
Well @fishonthenet@lemmy.ml used to post in here, and he was an active Librewolf developer, see his first post on this very same community, and he still is one of the moderators, though I believe he's no longer around, 🙁
Good news! I don't use it much, but Mastodon is indeed better suited for organizations / individuals to broadcast project updates.
Okay, so how do you install it on an android phone? No fdroid, no playstore entry...
There's no mobile version, use Ironfox instead; they're both FF-based so you can sync between them.
Desktop only. Use this one for android IronFox (A privacy and security-oriented Firefox-based browser for Android.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox/