LibreWolf

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Welcome to the official community for LibreWolf.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

To learn more or to download the browser visit the website: https://librewolf.net/

If you want to contribute head over to our Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/librewolf

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17370625

I've been a user of Librewolf for a about a year now, and it's always served me pretty well as a nice easy way to get a hardened Arkenfox Firefox.

However, recently I was curious why Librewolf wasn't recommended on PrivacyGuides, and took a look through their reasoning on their forum. That thread spans multiple years, and for the most part I thought their reasons for not including it were a bit unfair, especially after Librewolf started offering automatic updates.

But towards the end of that thread in October, a Privacy guide team member posted a link to the Arkenfox github issue tracker, where a Librewolf team member reveals how the project appeared to have lost steam after a critical member left, and they are struggling to keep it up to date with the latest Arkenfox updates, despite putting out new releases.

I'm not sure if those problems have been resolved since that time. One of the maintainers did mention they're still short staffed in this topic on taking over maintaining Mull.

After considering the arguments for and against in the PrivacyGuides thread, I think their conclusion for not recommending it was ultimately correct. Using Librewolf adds an additional layer of trust, not only to not be malicious (which I don't suspect they are) but to also be able to adequately fulfill what they set out to do reliably.

Another big part of them not recommending it was the existence of the Mullvad Browser, which I didn't realize was in fact a very well hardened version of Firefox (essentially the Tor browser without the Tor part), and is far more effective for private browsing compared to Librewolf or an Arkenfox'd firefox.

Ultimately you'll have to come to your own conclusion, but personally I'll be switching back to Firefox as my convenient daily browser full of addons, alongside the mullvad browser for (more) private browsing.

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browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent is a treasure inside about:config of Firefox (and LibreWolf for that matter). Instead of opening new tabs at the end, it opens them right next to the current tab so you can go back to the last tab instantly without scrolling through a long tab list! I believe this should be the default behaviour in every browser.

Unfortunately, too few users are aware it even exists.

I suggest you add this as a checkbox in the graphical about:preferences menu.

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The link above says form history is disabled:

Disable search and form history.

Before I bother installing LibreWolf, I would like to know whether the form history can be activated manually. I think it is very helpful and saves time.

It is stored only locally anyway, so it doesn't violate privacy like telemetry and add-on signing to. If my data was stolen, I would have much greater things to worry about anyway.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Linuxdroid@lemmy.ml to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 

I hope not. Add-on signing is a glorified backdoor. Not only does it let Mozilla remotely disable extensions, but in future, governments can force Mozilla to censor unwanted extensions.

In addition, it is a privacy violation, since Mozilla can see who has installed which add-on.

[…] when Firefox contacts Mozilla servers to verify if Mozilla approved each extension, it discloses to Mozilla which extensions are in use. So in addition to being a backdoor by definition, it is a severe privacy violation as well. This comes from an organization that perpetually claims to champion user freedom and privacy.

(source: change.org)

And let's not forget about a certain May 2019 incident:

all Firefox addons have been disabled due to an expired certificate. And so, people got silently hit with stuff like this when turning their "private and secure" browser on. It was only a matter of time until Mozilla's extension prison backfired, and it did so spectacularly. Though the BugZilla comments were already predictably closed, they will not be able to contain the armageddon this time, no matter how much PR they spew. The whole /r/firefox front page is filled with threads about this, with many people moving to Chrome-based browsers. Hacker News is also booming. Tech sites are running with the news too. The funny thing is, the whole point of the extension prison was allegedly to increase security - and yet today, all security addons got disabled because of it! Shows how freedom always has to trump over security or it ends up in a disaster like this.

(source: digdeeper.club)

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Hey! Anyone encountered this issue, that you cannot screenshare on discord in librewolf? It shows loading forever on others screens (on mine I see it captures the screen just fine). If so, please let me know how to fix it, its pretty annoying. I'll add that sharing works well in ungoogled chromium. So I believe its just some flag that I have to turn on but I don't know which.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by sith@lemmy.zip to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 

Howdy!

I recently started using LibreWolf (because there is no good Firefox package for Guix ATM). However, when I tried to install my standard extensions, I was redirected to the Mozzarella web page. I thought "fine, I'm a good GNU citizen" and installed a few extensions. But soon I realized that the were seriously outdated and also dysfunctional. For example, the Bitwarden extension is from July 2023.

Shouldn't LibreWolf stop sending users to Mozzarella if it's a dead project hosting outdated extensions, considering all the security issues that implies?

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In Firefox, it works perfectly fine.

No matter, how I set up LibreWolf - it refuses to show the login part of the page, when trying to access a private instance.

Out of desperation, I enabled all tracking etc. possible, which I would find in the settings. Disabled HTTPS-only mode, HTTPS over DNS, etc. Nothing works.

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Darn, and I just got Librewolf upgraded to 131.0, meaning needing to wait further for 131.0.2.

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submitted 9 months ago by celoman@awoo.fai.st to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 
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Is this total cookie protection something embedded, not requiring any user intervention? I know with librewolf we get the strict enhanced cookie protection mode, but I don't know if for this total protection there's something required, if not turned on by default...

Greetings !

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This has never worked in Firefox. Fx doesn’t follow en_DK for dates & even if I set/leave my preferences @ en_US as default, I still get terrible defaults like dd/mm/yyyy & commas for decimal separators at least on my machine even if I toggle on/off the use system locale option. Is LibreWolf in a position to be the first Fx fork to support ISO 8601 date formats (with nerds rejoicing everywhere)?

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Awesome, @librewolf is in the #FreeBSD package repository.

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In light of the new "AI WOW!" approach in the Firefox nightlies, I've installed #LibreWolf on my Linux machine at home, my Windows work laptop and corp VMs desktop.

Thankfully, they include a portable version so I can run it on the corporate machines. Though, the windows LibreWolf-Portable.exe had some issue on the VM about determining 32/64 bit, I just ran the LibreWolf/librewolf.exe directly.

I haven't messed with setting up corp proxy yet. That's tomorrow.

@librewolf

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smdh @ more Firefox BS.

"Firefox was created in 2002 under the codename 'Phoenix' by members of the Mozilla community who desired a standalone browser rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle."

Remember those halcyon Phoenix days? I do.

They were all too short lived.

Now even Firefox forks such as @librewolf seem to be sitting on their thumbs, thinking maybe it's sufficient to merely option out offending lines of code.

Have decades of return to libc exploits meant nothing to developers?!

If you aren't going to branch to the code, don't leave it in the source! It is an attack surface laying dormant whether you realize it or not.

Is it more work? Sure.

Do the work!

LibreSSL didn't rip out tens of thousands of lines from OpenSSL without good reasons.

The dividends have been appreciable.

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After the recent update (130.0-1) my settings in the “DNS over HTTPS” settings are no longer saving and are reset to “Increased protection” with the Mozilla DNS server every time I close the browser.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

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Hello @zenbrowser why I cant have the same protection using zen versus @librewolf ?

I tested it with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

and still it says that zen is partially blocking some trackers.

I checked the settings, many things looks the same but apparently not enough...

If you have any information on this it will be great.

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Hi, I got an error "could not find the path to Librewolf" when clicking on LibreWolf-Portable.exe It was working pretty well before this issue. How can I fix this trouble, please ? platform : Windows10 Home

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If I want to know if my version is up to date without issues, I should be able to find that information very quickly and plainly on the website as an external verification source. It could be on a page or on something like the menu or landing page footer. I just checked all of these. Finding this information is not obvious to me. I want to know this directly and without in-browser, distro, or other influences.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by OH3CUF@mastodon.radio to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 

WTF @librewolf - you had only one job and you are failing in it.

"No telemetry" -> first thing Librewolf does is connect to Mozilla telemetry services.

Found out this by having @littlesnitch@mastodon.obdev installed.

#librewolf #telemetry #cybersecurity

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Блин очень большие надежды испытывал на переезд на @librewolf но к сожалению, google meet и другие популярные штуки для онлайн конференций отказались нормально работать с камерой и микрофоном.

А еще при попытке оплатить через СПБ, почему-то отказывается нормально выводить QR код. :-(

Пришлось откатить на @FirefoxNightly

Может кто есть из пользователей @librewolf дайте совет, как вы его настроили, что не всплывает таких косяков?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Rick_C137@programming.dev to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 
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Hi everyone,

Is there somewhere a list of all the changes made compared to Firefox ?

edit:

~~Sorry if it's been already asked over here, but it seem that Lemmy do not provide a search within a Community 😮~~

no, actually we can, there isn't a shortcut to make such a search. and no ability to limit the search to the titles..

*Wubba Lubba dub-dub*

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Just switched from Librewolf Flatpak to the rpm. Now double click to select text doesn't work. To select text, I need to drag my cursor over the text to be selected while holding left click. Is there any way to fix this?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 
 

Two days ago, LW started behaving very oddly. It suddenly stopped rendering pages - but only on some sites. For example, the default Lemmy skin is fine but the Alexandrite skin is not. The BBC website doesn't work either. A few others seemingly totally random.

The domain resolves and it makes the initial connection and then it takes up to a minute of doing nothing and then just craps out, unable to render the page. Checking the Inspector reveals no errors or warnings and the network inspector is making a connection but not loading anything other than headers and basic tags.

The page presents no errors it just shows a blank screen. <html> <head> and <body> tags load but nothing else.

All these pages work fine in all other browsers I've tested in (floorp, Mullvad, vanilla FFox and Brave).

Details: LibreWolf 128.0-2 (flatpak) on LMDE (Faye).

Any clues, pointers or advice very gratefully received. I love the browser and have it set up just how I like it so don't really want to switch to another.

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