LibreWolf

It seems interesting that "Clear URLs" might clean URLs of tracking pieces on the URLs. Is that something covered by other extensions, particularly by uBlock Origin?

For LibreWolf + uBlockOrigin users might seem unnecessary, but when sharing URLs with others, who one is not aware what browsers they use, then perhaps it's useful. What do you think?

To update Librewolf on a mac I am using homebrew (because it seems like the obvious choice for an application with no build in update mechanism). This however means that every time I complete an update macOS gatekeeper interrupts my workflow an asks me to go to the settings to reapprove Librewolf again. I am curious if there are any good workarounds for that.

BTW I have tried installing using the --no-quarantine flag provided by homebrew but this flag does not change behavior when using brew upgrade.

Keep an eye on these emerging tech apps surfaced by the @bitwarden community for #DataPrivacyWeek. What does your privacy stack look like?

#cybersecurite #privacy #dataprivacy #securite #RGPD @Vivaldi @librewolf #Ecosia #SearX #Freeotp #AndOTP #Olvid #Twinme

There’s still time to take the survey: https://lnkd.in/gmH-mK65

No Google, I will not download Chrome to any of my devices, even if you show me this ad in front of EVERY YouTube Video I watch.
There are way better alternatives that respect my privacy like @brave; @librewolf or Safari

(Additionally every browser uses the same browser engine on IOS)

hello! as you might have noticed I haven't been able to post the changelog lately, so I figured I'd write a news thread:

• as usual we released a new LW version for each FF stable.
• I just added a bunch of documentation entries, most notably:
  • accessibility and why you might want to disable it, even though we don't by default.
  • how to use KeePassXC when you install both it and LibreWolf as Flatpak.
  • how to install uBO if you're in a country where the addons store is blocked.
  • full list.
• WebRTC should work a bit better now, you should experience less breakage.
• we maintained our usual set of patches across each release.
• this epic contains a bunch of solved issue we have been ironing out during the past few release cycles.
• in the next release we finally expect to fix the weird new tab issue on linux and the unresponsive window issue on macos; this was possible thanks to a contributor from the community who found a typo in one of our patches :-)
• there's a known issue with Firefox Sync logins.

if you have any question just ask 🐟

is it useful to install trocker addon with Librewolf, or protection offered by that addon is already included?

Trocker is an email tracker blocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trockerapp/

hello folks, v107.0 is rolling out on all platforms, if it already hasn't :-)

main changes:

• rebased to latests firefox;
• updated patches.

very minimal but enjoy!

Hey all,

I'm using librewolf as my daily browser on my laptop and bromite on my phone. The only way I can sync bookmarks is using xBrowserSync. works gret btw. However, this piece of software is not updated for 2 years now.

Is it still the best choice?

Thanks in advance.

I'm wondering if what Skip Redirect provides, is something Librewolf, thorugh some settings already provide, or if not, if uBlockOrigin does and how. And if not having such settings on Librewolf, or uBlockOrigin, does it make sense the add-on?

I installed it as recommended by arkenfox. I know Librewolf doesn't exactly follow arkenfox, but it's any ways a reference, :)

It's not one of the Librewolf recommendations though...

Thanks !

Hello,

how to enable swipe gestures in LibreWolf?

from that issue:

I'll be stopping providing new LibreWolf builds, and it's possible I'll abandon the port altogether in the near future. So, unless I'll find someone who will take care of the port, it would be better to remove the instructions.

more details inside, and many thanks to the person who provided the port during these months!

hello! v106.0.1 is rolling out on all platforms.

some might have already got a v106.0 update, others will be upgraded directly to the newer version as the releases were condensed into one, since they occurred within 48 hrs from each other upstream.

main changes:

• rebased to latests firefox;
• updated settings: there have been many minor changes in the past few releses, I suggest looking at the changelog of the past few versions;
• hide firefox view for now, we will eventually patch it and re-introduce it in a revisited form later on!

enjoy and be safe :-)

FYI: if you prefer to use a different instance, mickie created a librewolf community of at https://jeremmy.ml. I will try my best to keep an eye on stuff posted over there too :-)

I recently wanted to try out Reader View but for some reason the icon in the url bar was nowhere to be seen. After taking a look at about:config it seems the feature is permanently disabled. Is there a reason for this?

The preference is called reader.parse-on-load.enabled.

a bit late to the party, but v104 has been released in the past few days, depending on your platform.

the changelog is very small this time, I blame august:

• all changes from firefox v104;
• updated some patches that broke;
• updated settings to v6.9, which is mostly a cleanup.

look I said it wasn't that much..but enjoy it :-)

I forgot the changelog for v102 but here's the one for v103 instead.

• all upstream fixes from FF103
• updated, fixed and deprecated patches.
  • in particular you might have noticed an issue with uBO disappearing, it's now fixed.
• add release for OpenSuse Tumbleweed.
• updated build documentation.
• updated base macOS SDK to 11+.
• updated settings to v6.7.
  • as the upstream cookie pref migration is finished you should no longer experience lost cookies.
  • IPv6 is no longer disabled by default.
• updated some description in the UI.
• fix printing in flatpak.

an even more detailed issue and merge request overview is available in the meta for v103.

if you want to contribute check our gitlab, follow the labels and the epic for the next release. if you want to report something please use gitlab, follow the guidelines and check known issues.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/391703

it only took 28 years; better late than never!

I do have RFP enabled, but also webgl enabled. In the doc, it's recommended to at least use canvasblocker, if having webgl enabled. But I'm wondering if RFP should make canvasblocker unnecessary at all.

Thanks !

I've been looking for something "official" from the Librewolf team regarding running Librewolf in Docker, but I haven't found much. There are a few initiatives that seem to support Librewolf Docker containers (eg Github, Docker Hub), but they don't seem to be referenced much nor heavily used. However, maybe the reason I don't see it much is that there are better ways to achieve what I'm looking for.

• Better separation from daily OS environment and regular browsing environment
• Ability to run multiple instances privacy friendly browser and isolate each instance for particular use cases
• Configure each instance to be run over different VPNs (or no VPN at all)

Is there a way to best achieve this?

In the FAQ section, the answer to "Can I use Firefox Sync with LibreWolf? Is it safe to do so?" is that "There aren't any major privacy or security downsides in doing so, as Firefox Sync encrypts your data locally before transmitting it to the server".

So why does LibreWolf disable it by default?

I'm currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

• what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
• do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you're curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111