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2y ago

Librewolf is Firefox but better

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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.
  
  That is a Firefox setting. I use it on my phone.
  
  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?
- 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.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?
  
  https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
  
  F-Droid
  Do you have any anti-feature filtered?
  
  Look on official Librewolf website, not sure if mobile is supported though
- i'm also on Fennec. Any tip on how I can install this addon - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediredirect/
  
  https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/
- 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?

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 am an IceRaven enjoyer

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..

I like Mullvad Browser :3 Though, I turn off letterboxing because I can't hanle it.

Pro tip: change your user agent to linux
- For what reason?
  
  To promote linux

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.
  
  Haven't heard of that but I'm using xBrowsersync for my bookmarks so I wouldn't need to rely on Firefox Sync.
  
  Oh sweet, I think I'll give this a try. Thanks!
- 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
  
  Shame. My search continues

Librewolf and tor browser best combo

The tabs still look like buttons. Perfect opportunity to fix that, and they whiffed.

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