LibreWolf @lemmy.ml kooltechlord @lemm.ee 4mo ago

LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon

chaos.social LibreWolf (@librewolf@chaos.social)

60 Posts, 7 Following, 5.67K 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: http...

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

Fediverse @lemmy.world mesamunefire @lemmy.world 4mo ago

LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon

chaos.social /@librewolf

Librewolf @programming.dev Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca 4mo ago

Librewolf has just joined the fediverse!

chaos.social /@librewolf

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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.
  
  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
  
  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"?
- 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.
  
  Does sync work? I am guessing it won't if every Mozilla part is removed.
- 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.
- My banks website won't login on Lirbrewolf. Tried disabling every setting imaginable.
  
  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.
- 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
- If you care about usability, I'd recommend Zen browser. Not as hard as Librewolf but it's not owned by Mozilla.
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.
- not everything is a smartphone app...
  
  Unfortunately when it comes to the web browser itself, it's a must. You cannot have a browser that is actually just a webpage.
- 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/
  
  Or Fennec
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.
@kooltechlord I was just looking into this, as I just changed following the whole Mozilla fiasco. Wonderful!
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.

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