How is Librewolf better?
I too would like this knowledge to be imparted upon my person.
It erases your history every time you close it so it helps you sharpen your memory.
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 only works if you use the 3 dot menu and press Quit, unless there’s another setting I don’t know about.
It works when you close the window, with the exception of Mac which requires you to fully quit, just like any other Mac application.
I am 100% positive that it is NOT working for me upon fully closing Firefox on Android.
Yup same here. So instead I just set my tabs to automatically close after 1 day. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
I am not saying you are wrong. I can remember having that issue in the past. I don’t know if it is fixed by now. I just use the quit.
While annoying if it is still the case on Android, I primarily wanted to express that it is a Firefox feature in general.
You are correct. I use it on desktop and it works fine.
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.
Just as a sidenote, Thunderbird is not part of the same company as firefox and was part of the Mozilla foundation until 2020. Thunderbird is no longer “out in the cold”. There is a new version (115) that you might want to check out if you like thunderbird.
I don’t want to engage with the rest.
I am aware. I have been a Thunderbird user for at least 15 years which is why I am unhappy with their general treatment of it over the years as a second class citizen. But at least it is in a better place now.
They waste a lot of money on unrelated projects
Which they often half-ass, then discontinue like Lockwise. A bit like Google is handling their 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.
Heh… hardened
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.htmlHmmm 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.
ok
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 always told Firefox that it was too good for you. But Firefox wouldn’t listen. It would say, “No, Titou is the one. Titou will never do me wrong.” Well. Well. Well…
Oh nice, Can I still sync my Firefox account with it? Been looking for an alternative so I can use FF for both work and home.
If you’re looking for a bookmark sync, check out floccus, a FOSS plugin for Firefox and chromium browsers that will sync your bookmarks to a cloud storage and across your browsers.
Oh sweet, I think I’ll give this a try. Thanks!
Haven’t heard of that but I’m using xBrowsersync for my bookmarks so I wouldn’t need to rely on Firefox Sync.
Looks interesting but seems to be getting abandoned unfortunately.
What I enjoy about floccus is that there is no additional app to interact with; you just save book marks as you normally would in any browser and it auto syncs the structure of your bookmarks to other browsers, so it is always easy and familiar to get to.
Last time I checked it has the sync removed.
You can reenable that in the settings, but it’s off by default. I use it everyday
Nice Ty. Can you share how to do it?
https://librewolf.net/docs/settings/#enable-firefox-sync
You set this in your overrides file or in about:config
You can also do it with the normal settings menu (about:preferences). The setting is called “Enable Firefox Sync” under the tab “LibreWolf”. Might be a bit easier this way.
Thank you !
Shame. My search continues
You can re-enable it in about:config
Have started using it today, can confirm it’s just an option to toggle in the settings
I am an IceRaven enjoyer
Pro tip: change your user agent to linux
For what reason?
To promote linux
I like Mullvad Browser :3 Though, I turn off letterboxing because I can’t hanle it.
The tabs still look like buttons. Perfect opportunity to fix that, and they whiffed.
Librewolf and tor browser best combo
