Since I’ve been mostly using #LibreWolf @librewolf and Tor Browser @torproject anyway, and almost never plain #Firefox, it wasn’t a big deal to say goodbye and to delete Firefox from all devices today.
The new “Terms of Use” and the modified privacy notice have crossed a red line, I do no longer give Mozilla the benefit of doubt.
Brief and good summary of Mozilla’s changes by @sarahjamielewis:
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114072293410465140
TBH I have no idea why somebody would so persistently and patiently work on discrediting and sinking their own flagship.
Does librewolf or any other alternatives offer syncing between devices? I know it’s not a great thing for privacy, but I find it really helpful for work to have easy access to different tabs, passwords and stuff between my phone, laptop and desktop. I would love to switch from mozilla, but that’s what’s currently keeping me…
Aaaand i used a search engine for you: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so
But you can even self host your own sync server: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
You’re awesome! Thanks. That’s wild that your can host your own syncsever, the community is brilliant.
Sometimes it’s nice to talk to other people 🤷♀️
Could just install a password manager. Bitwarden or Keepass+ syncthing
That’s good for passwords, but it’s also the syncing of tabs and search history and stuff. When I’m working on my laptop I want to be able to easily find the random journal article I had open on my desktop.
I appreciate the convenience of cloud history is at odds with privacy. But being able to selfhost a syncing server, or to keep a private log on a cloud storage space that only my devices had access to should be possible… But it’s probably not a priority for many folks.
Librewolf does, though you have to enable it first. Work fine for me. Never really had an issue with it.
I do not use any syncing features, sorry, can’t say.
I keep Firefox around only for those very few sites I encounter, such as MLB.TV and my student loan servicer’s site, that will rarely if ever function properly in privacy respecting browsers. But 90+ percent of my browsing is done on LibreWolf.
I just cancelled mlb.tv today before the new season renewal activated because I’m exhausted with trying to doge blackouts. I’ll just do something else with my time.
My local team (the Minnesota Twins) is using Twins.TV as their primary platform this year after the Diamond Sports cable debacle. No blackouts! Though that also means I’ll probably be able to watch directly on my TV, so I’ll likely be doing that for most games, which will be one less reason to keep Firefox around.
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I’d use LibreWolf or Waterfox if they had support for all platforms. LibreWolf is only on Windows, Waterfox is on Windows and Android, Ubuntu has none of them and I can’t be bothered dicking around to get them installed. Also I need sync between devices for bookmarks.
I guess I’m forced to use Firefox and just use about:config and turn off everything that I find under “telemetry”…
Librewolf is in a lot of repos and on flathub
You should be able to add the LibreWolf repository on Ubuntu, if they don’t have an Ubuntu one the Debian one should work. It’s how I got it on a Fedora based distro (using the Fedora repo).
