LibreWolf (@[email protected])
chaos.social
8 Posts, 1 Following, 1.45K 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•9 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

    • @[email protected]
      3•9 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 hours ago

      Doesn’t this make one stand out as “the person with the unmaximized/weird screen resolution”?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 hours ago

        The point is to make everyone have the same size window therefore nobody stands out. We’re all Spartacus as it were. Of course you can just click maximise if you want.

        When maximised the size and resolution of your screen can be determined and used as a piece of data among many to uniquely identify you and attempt to figure out your identity. Depending on what you’re doing and which sites you’re using this may or may not be a concern.

        For example, when I use my university’s website, they already know who I am. I log in with an email address uniquely tied to me. So maximising the window then, to me, doesn’t really matter. But if I’m browsing news articles from websites hell bent on bombarding me with adverts, cookies, and trackers then I’ll stick with the default Librewolf sizing in an attempt to blend in.