LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

Just yesterday I had noticed that, &quot;Suggestions from sponsors&quot; in the address bar had been turned back on after a recent Firefox update, and then installed Librewolf. I really want to use it as my main browser, but certain use cases such as online banking (at least with my credit union) doesn&#x27;t seem to work properly, so I re-disabled &quot;Suggestions from sponsors&quot; in Firefox and went on with my day. Seriously, changing user settings with updates is a major dick move and something I&#x27;d expect from Microsoft and not Mozilla.<p>Edit: Turning off the anti-fingerprinting feature in LibreWolf is needed for online banking to work.

The biggest problem with all these &quot;privacy&quot; oriented web browsers is that you have to trust their creators explicitly and I just cannot.<p>Most often the developers are some random anonymous Joes without CVs or anything proving they have reputation at stake.<p>Thank you, but no thank you. Even if the official Firefox &quot;leaks&quot; something it&#x27;s well controlled and well known.<p>What do these browsers do? I&#x27;ve no idea.

There are many valid counterpoints on why you shouldn&#x27;t trust&#x2F;use this, but the mere existence of it raises a very valid point and calls Mozilla&#x27;s BS; why does this fork exist at all if Mozilla supposedly cares about your privacy, security and freedom?

Disclaimer: I develop Waterfox.<p>I think it’s worth noting that Librewolf provides unsigned binaries and at least on Windows, you need to trust a third party service to provide automatic updates.

I like the idea of LibreWolf, but never understand why it isn’t just a FF profile setting (Eg “Max Privacy = on&#x2F;off”)

Iceraven is a similar (in principle) fork of Firefox for Android.<p>=&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fork-maintainers&#x2F;iceraven-browser&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fork-maintainers&#x2F;iceraven-browser&#x2F;</a>

privacytests.org shows how Librewolf privacy testing scores compares to others.

The daily dose of privacyguides forum dissing LibreWolf for unjustified [reason](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.privacyguides.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;librewolf-browser-firefox-fork&#x2F;148" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.privacyguides.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;librewolf-browser-firefo...</a>), while their recommanded &quot;Brave&quot; was delibrately a product to replace annoying ads with their own commercial ads and earn BAT crypto, built-in VPN, built-in Web3, wallet, whatever stuff...<p>Their opinion TLDR; no auto-updater (community auto-updater exists), no advantage to config Arkenfox.js by yourself (but why do I need to be a json geek to just use a browser?)<p>LW the best daily-driver browser for me, they still include the option to use FF Sync, which is supposed to be safe as E2EE. Mullvad Browser is better but hard to daily drive.<p>Similar to ublock origin advanced mode (which basically is uMatrix continued), be prepared to fix the site by yourself sometimes. But for safety, privacy, anonymity and security, hell yah.

I got fed up with Chrome recently (some real ugly on-by-default advertising tracking) and switched to Firefox on my work computer but not my home computer yet.<p>Is anyone out there self-hosting firefox sync successfully? My googling seemed to only bring up a deprecated version so I haven&#x27;t really tried setting it up yet.

Just use a custom user.js, LibreWolf doesn&#x27;t deliver much beyond a few major tweaks and a logo.

Always wondered why such projects are not part of Debian main repository.

previous thread <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29106155">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29106155</a>

It&#x27;s fascinating that there are quite a number of forks from Firefox aiming for more privacy, security and old codebases, but none for improving the browser itself, making it more interesting for power users. Considering all that was lost in the quantum-phase, I would think someone would fork it just for improving some small things like better vim-style support or a second sidebar.

Any fellow OperaGX users here? It&#x27;s kind of a meme but the feature set is neat and performance seems fine. I wonder how HN would feel about it

Great browser. LW is much better in terms of accessing sites than Firefox portable or any other FF based browser I&#x27;ve tried.

I liked that they advertised webextensions firewall. But I was not able to make it work and don&#x27;t see that anymore

Another reason to use it on Ubuntu is simply it&#x27;s still available as a normal app instead of a snap.

What exactly do we gain by browsing more anonymously if we just read news or go on social media sites?

The name is really weird, like it was selected by a 12 years old

LibreWolf is a set of patches against Firefox.

Manual updates for macOS and repo link 404…?

i believe LW is the only browser that can defeat advanced fingerprinting techniques.

privacy browsers be all like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a>