LibreWolf Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021)

  Check out librewolf - Firefox with with all “spy” stuff disabled https://librewolf.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork

  Wasn't this niche already occupied by https://librewolf.net/ ? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

  Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled

  You are incorrect. Please take a look at the default preferences that they ship, as they are a large and important part of it. Literally on the front page: https://librewolf.net You're here to astroturf for Mozilla or Google, aren't you? - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser

  This also prompted a change beyond my phone: I've left behind Chrome and Firefox on my Windows and Linux machines in favor of Librewolf, a privacy and security-focused Firefox fork for desktops. The experience has been painless and I wish I had just made the switch earlier. I did activate Firefox sync (which is by default disabled in Mull and Librewolf) and have had a smooth experience across my devices. So far so... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections

  LibreWolf[1] is a Firefox-based alternative to Brave, and appears to pass more privacy tests[2]. 1. https://librewolf.net/ 2. https://privacytests.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Degoogle Samsung devices

  Switch to Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium or Librewolf (if you want). Source: over 1 year ago

• FOSS Alternative to O&O ShutUp10? (Windows 10 hardening)

  Install Firefox or LibreWolf Gitlab - librewolf and follow the hardening guide Github - Firefox-hardening-guide. Source: about 2 years ago

• DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser on OS-provided rendering engines.

  Try Librewolf. It's a privacy fork so out of the box it may break some sites; uBlock Origin is preinstalled, some configurations are altered and additional configs are added. However, you can change the configurations such that it lets you do what you want. Some configurations are locked out of the box, but I believe it's possible to enable overriding the new configurations. Main site:... Source: over 2 years ago

• How to update the unbranded build?

  "Installation" on website leads here: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community. Source: over 2 years ago

• If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser

  Librewolf is updated at the same rate as FF is, has uBlock Origin built in, telemetry is removed, and a bunch of other security configs that you have to manually disable in FF are disabled by default. It has canvas fingerprint prevention built in as well. Just download FF, and using either homebrew or mac developer tools, just copy and paste the repositories into terminal https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community. Source: about 3 years ago