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[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

LibreWolf is a great project but was killing my eyes at night by not being able to follow dark-theme preferences in Private Mode. So it was forked into what is now Konform Browser. Besides unlocking theming and some other privacy-related tweaks on the preferences pane, it goes even further than LW in disabling built-in remote connections, snoopware, and AI integrations.

If you are a Linux user who haven't yet found the right Firefox fork for you I hope you will consider it <3

fedi thread

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Konform Browser is more recent Firefox (actually LibreWolf) fork which goes even further in debloating, removing "AI" functionality and disabling remote connections. It's based on Firefox ESR (like GNUZilla IceCat).

fedi thread

If you have concerns about the telemetry and browser metadata privacy parts of AI integrations, I think Konform, IceCat, Waterfox and Mullvad Browser are a lot more relevant than Zen...

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

Also consider Konform Browser! :3

https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases

Note: It doesn't have auto-updates enabled so if you are currently getting security fixes installed automatically for Waterfox/Librewolf and won't manage to keep the browser up to date yourself, then it may still be a bit early for casual users as an online daily surfboard

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

Update: Pre-built packages for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/SUSE (.rpm) and others (tarball) are now built and published by Codeberg CI for each release:

https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

Update: Pre-built packages for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/SUSE (.rpm) and others (tarball) are now built and published by Codeberg CI for each release:

https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

senpai noticed me *^^*

Cheers and thank you for the work!

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Red Hat's out for us I tell you. Hide your display servers and hide your CPU architectures because they be deprecating e'rybody out here.

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not the actual theme maintainer but I'm sure they would be receptive of PRs.

I guess the easiest would be using Kvantum to port the existing GTK theme if anyone is up for it.

https://github.com/tsujan/Kvantum/

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsujan/Kvantum/refs/heads/master/Kvantum/doc/Theme-Making.pdf

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry, that's totally off topic (rule 1) and none of your business I'm afraid.

Feels like you're meming on some uncharitable stereotype at the expense of myself, QubesOS, and room for more interesting convos in this thread. Comments like this might make other users with less hard skin afraid to post their own setup if stuff like this is all they get back. It leads to less diversity and real talk, more low-effort memes and the sameish sway-with-a-fancy-background-and-fastfetch.

As this little community grows I think it would be sweet to try not to actively reproduce the bad aspects of Reddit.

(Yes, I'm a blast at parties)

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China, known for not caring about its supply-chain and outsourcing everything to other countries? It's funny how they never seem to strategically build alternative pipelines for anything.

/s

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

This theme is the one used in my recent unixporn screenshot.

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Went low-key public with our internal browser project by sharing here on the feddit. If you're a dev, packager, Arch Linux user, or already build Firefox from source, this is for you^1^. More people using it becomes a shared privacy win. I humbly suggest that this is currently the most privacy-friendly general-purpose GUI browser out there^1^.

Announce post

Sources

AUR

^1^: Others can check back at a later date when perhaps there are more builds running and tested, and more people have looked over the code.

^2^: Biased? I would never!

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