Librewolf is Firefox but better

How is Librewolf better?

I too would like this knowledge to be imparted upon my person.

That’s why I don’t use password manager and learn every unique randomly generated 22-character password by memory. I can’t remember my mother’s name but at least I can log into myspace.

Thanks, now I know exactly how many characters there are in all of your passwords. This will greatly reduce the time to crack all your accounts on my potato laptop.

That is a Firefox setting. I use it on my phone.

I use it on my arch machine

That’s… one way to look at it.

Hardened by default, no telemetry, no Pocket, virtually everything Mozilla-related removed, and timely updates unlike some other forks. It is like the Ungoogled Chromium equivalent of Firefox. Since I do not like the company it is the perfect option for me.

Why don’t you like Mozilla?

They are a for-profit company including laying off staff but their CEO still makes CEO money even while the company is struggling. Not to mention if you are trying to degoogle that is where Mozilla makes the bulk of its income. That’s just a few things of many, they’ve also made stupid decisions like leaving Thunderbird out in the cold for years or that whole Colorways thing they wasted time on. Not to mention I don’t actually even like Firefox the browser. I use librewolf strictlty out of principle and not because I actually prefer it over chromium. I think it is inferior in most ways but I am opposed to the centralization so here we are.

They waste a lot of money on unrelated projects

Its hardened firefox, but you dont have to do any of the hardening yourself. Thats it, and thats why I continue to just use hardened firefox.

They pre-install ublock origin basically.

It’s hardened. Breaks websites if you don’t loosen up security. Personally, I’m fine with not being able to access websites which absolutely attempt to implement rubbish like a bunch of failed redirects (looking at you aliexpress), but YMMV

I use Fennec on Android because I can use desktop Firefox addons if I enable developer options and use my addon collection.

Well, Mull is more like a “Librewolf for Android”, I (think) it is more privacy-focused than Fennec.
Mull also supports more extensions from developer options.

Check these out for Librewolf and Mull’s results. Fennec isn’t in the list (yet?)
https://privacytests.org/
https://privacytests.org/android.html

Hmmm that was bothering me that mobile Firefox has access to like six add-ons. At least ublock was one.

Take a look at iceraven (:

I can’t find it, is it on F-Droid? Play Store?

Thanks. I’ll have a look

F-Droid

Do you have any anti-feature filtered?

No, I just skipped over it because it looked so unobtrusive without the icon

Look on official Librewolf website, not sure if mobile is supported though

I meant fennec, but thanks. I’ll give it a go on my laptop :-)

i’m also on Fennec. Any tip on how I can install this addon - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediredirect/

Interesting. I might look into that

I use Firefox with adblock and Duckduckgo, for me I good enough.

Great choice, i use Librewolf with ublock + privacy badger and searx as a search engine

based. i believe privacy badger is redundant with ublock?

Mostly. Sometimes it’ll catch something ublock missed though so not pointlessly redundant.

Meh, firefox is plenty enough

That implies Librewolf is improved in some way, but it is just Firefox with hardening applied.

Mike Kuketz had a detailed look at several browsers and Librewolf as well. In a nutshell, he was pleased and states that the default settings are user friendly. His website is in German though: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil8/

I use Arch btw

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