Firefox FTW!
LibreWolf
Is there anything better about LibreWolf that can’t be achieved by altering Firefox settings?
I guess, this is most of the changes they do: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/
There’s maybe a handful where I’m not sure, if you can do them via settings.
One where it’s technically the case, is that they remove Pocket at compile time. But to my knowledge, Pocket integration is pretty much a glorified bookmark. There’s not much code to remove. And it can be disabled via about:config by settingextensions.pocket.enabledtofalse.I guess, to be fair to LibreWolf, Mozilla has been helping out the Tor Browser devs since forever, so most things needed for Tor Browser are just a toggle in the Firefox settings.
As a result, though, there’s also lots of settings, which partially need expert knowledge. So, there is definitely room for different presets. But yeah, still leaves the question, whether one really needs a different executable to adjust these settings.It ships preconfigured without invading your privacy (like Firefox does). Just look up a comparison online.
Firefox doesn’t invade anyone’s privacy.
Sadly, with default settings that’s the case. Partly due to Telemetry being active and Google being the default search engine.
Yes, but only begrudgingly.
(edit) oh no, I’ve said something bad about the lesser evil, and the people who have made it their identity to violently cum all over the first thing that isn’t owned by Google are after me. I hope the pipe bomb hitman is at least polite.
Nah, Firefox is way better.
I just wish Firefox updates weren’t so intrusive. Having it hit me with “Firefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefox” while I’m trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesn’t save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I won’t go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.
Restart Firefox to let it finish updating. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a screen that says you HAVE to restart right now at this very moment.
I got it again unfortunately, here’s a screenshot of what it looks like
You can disable that. I have mine set to notify me when updates are available
Looks like it didn’t work unfortunately 😞 Thank you for the suggestion though!
look inside Librewolf
See Firefox
I wish there’s more Mozilla forks.
Floorp, Waterfox, Mercury, Librewolf, Tor (if that even counts)
Icefox I’ve heard about and LIbrewolf I use actively.
The latter has frustrations with Video Downloadheper. IDK WTF to do to make it work. Sticks me to fucking Firefox to rip. Icefox recommender said it should work with VDH but they don’t really know and I ain’t had a chance to work with it.
Have you asked the Video Download helper team? I had an issue before where it wasn’t picking up a media after an update and asked them and they fixed it by the next update. They’re really good with support.
I can’t figure out how to post on github yet. I have little time that isn’t bothered with other things first. I’m missing a bunch of shit I already stole from yt but keeps getting fried cuz im lazy and don’t book it to my vault
If you’re logged on to GitHub and go under discussions for this dev, you can just post a discussion or add to an existing thread with a similar issue.
