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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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Since I've been mostly using #LibreWolf @librewolf and Tor Browser @torproject anyway, and almost never plain #Firefox, it wasn't a big deal to say goodbye and to delete Firefox from all devices today.

The new "Terms of Use" and the modified privacy notice have crossed a red line, I do no longer give Mozilla the benefit of doubt.

Brief and good summary of Mozilla's changes by @sarahjamielewis:

https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114072293410465140

TBH I have no idea why somebody would so persistently and patiently work on discrediting and sinking their own flagship.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does librewolf or any other alternatives offer syncing between devices? I know it's not a great thing for privacy, but I find it really helpful for work to have easy access to different tabs, passwords and stuff between my phone, laptop and desktop. I would love to switch from mozilla, but that's what's currently keeping me...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Librewolf does, though you have to enable it first. Work fine for me. Never really had an issue with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sometimes it's nice to talk to other people 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You're awesome! Thanks. That's wild that your can host your own syncsever, the community is brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@Acamon

I do not use any syncing features, sorry, can't say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I keep Firefox around only for those very few sites I encounter, such as MLB.TV and my student loan servicer's site, that will rarely if ever function properly in privacy respecting browsers. But 90+ percent of my browsing is done on LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just cancelled mlb.tv today before the new season renewal activated because I’m exhausted with trying to doge blackouts. I’ll just do something else with my time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My local team (the Minnesota Twins) is using Twins.TV as their primary platform this year after the Diamond Sports cable debacle. No blackouts! Though that also means I'll probably be able to watch directly on my TV, so I'll likely be doing that for most games, which will be one less reason to keep Firefox around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd use LibreWolf or Waterfox if they had support for all platforms. LibreWolf is only on Windows, Waterfox is on Windows and Android, Ubuntu has none of them and I can't be bothered dicking around to get them installed. Also I need sync between devices for bookmarks.

I guess I'm forced to use Firefox and just use about:config and turn off everything that I find under "telemetry"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You should be able to add the LibreWolf repository on Ubuntu, if they don't have an Ubuntu one the Debian one should work. It's how I got it on a Fedora based distro (using the Fedora repo).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Librewolf is in a lot of repos and on flathub