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Librewolf is just a usable Firefox
Firefox is a completely usable Firefox.
If you dont care about Ad search engines, Studies, Pocket, Google Safebrowsing, search suggestions, a start page with ads, weak privacy settings, all cookies saved forever, no adblocking, a unique canvas fingerprint, a user agent containing your Linux Distro,…
I went through the arkenfox user.js and literally all of it minus 20 or so settings just make sense. The rest are kinda overkill, but really, Firefox is horrible out of the box.
It is really modular luckily
“horrible” being mostly sensible for the average user, as well as basic telemetry for making development much easier. but muhhh nooo with that information they can know who exactly I am!!! preach!!!
A lot of these are privacy invasive. Senseful telemitry is fine, but I dont see how they do that.
really, Firefox is horrible out of the box.
It is really modular luckily
Taking shit, but even you still have to recognize excellent software design.
Stop harrassing me please. Just because you are fine with something, you cant say anyone else is talking shit.
Firefox is really modular, and that makes it different from the other browers.
I don’t see how a couple of replies could be considered harassment just because I used the phrase “talking shit”. The fact is that you’re fear mongering, and you apparently don’t like it being questioned.
Most of these aren’t issues or are “solved” in a couple of seconds.
I am curious, exactly how would it be remotely possible for me to care that my UA string mentions Ubuntu when that’s not even technically my distro? I cannot summon an ounce of concern there. Seriously, how the hell would that matter in the least to anyone?
It adds one factor for Fingerprinting that is simply not needed
I knew you would say that. I imagine that user agent strings as a concept are bad, in your opinion?
They are useful to differentiate mobile from PC devices. That is not needed as many Websites are dynamic, but useful for some.
As all browsers also support the common web standards, it is also not necessary for determining supported features or something.
The only other use I find is having download links targeting the platform, but especially on Linux that is not really useful
“useful” is relative. I prefer a world where websites can know which platforms users are coming from, as it helps them know where to focus their support efforts.
There are billions of users but probably only a few OSes mentioned in UA strings so it seems like a decent trade off to me. My exact UA string is likely shared by millions of users even though my OS is somewhat rare on the world stage. Until the day comes that web browsers work exactly the same way on every platform, at which case I’d agree with you, no longer useful. Unfortunately for decades we’ve been quite a bit short of that end.
Just checked because I couldn’t remember exactly what OS info mine included last I looked. It’s quite generic:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Librewolf for normal stuff, Tor for stuff I don’t even want linked to my IP.
Jokes on you, cause a lot of alphabet organizations set up entry and exit nodes on Tor so you’re being tracked regardless.
Most of my Tor activity is on onionsites, so that’s okay.
Also, even given spooky nodes, the chances of getting a spooky entry and exit node are slim. Still, given the possibility, it is advisable to do spicy clearnet activities away from home with a MAC randomizer as insurance in case you win the world’s worst roulette game.
I think the big problem I have with tor is that there’s no way to know how compromised the network is. From a three letter agency budget, setting up 30,000 nodes wouldn’t be a big deal, you just have them doing other things.
Of course, I’m not really doing anything that would draw the ire of a three-letter agency, so even tor is overkill.
I was also never really big on people running bad s*** through my node. I’ve always felt better using a paid proxy then at least claims not to log, Even if there’s a half decent chance that people are watching their ingress and egress at the ISP level.
Clearly 🐺. Been on it like, 3y+? Maybe longer, it’s been my primary for a long time. 🦊 as a backup, and for DRM stuff. Chrome/Chromium for shit that just doesn’t play well with 🦎. Edge (for windows) is my ‘I need to test this with a vanilla browser’ and cba to disable ublock etc from chrome incognito.
Iceraven, with backup Vanadium, on mobile.
For mobile, I’d recommend Mull instead of Iceraven
Pros:
- Just like Iceraven, a fork of Fenix
- incorporates the arkenfox user.js
- Doesn’t have “No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!” in its project description
Cons:
- APKs are only on FDroid
- awful name, no animal reference
- awful logo color scheme imo - magenta on turquoise is… an interesting choice
Here’s a probably somewhat biased but from quickly skimming over it not inaccurate browser comparison by the developer(s) of Mull:
https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
Also based GrapheneOS user
I’ve tried Mull and went back, but I can’t remember why. Iceraven is ‘fine’ but seems a touch buggy for some builds. I used to use Fennec for a long time, but I think IR allows installing ‘unofficial’ add-ons that haven’t been vetted or whatever by Mozilla for mobile. But I’ll have a look see, maybe my issue with Mull has been resolved.
DRM isn’t for people who care about privacy, freedom or security
NetCat. /s
Seriously though, I just use Firefox. LibreWolf is basically Firefox with stricter defaults, and over the years I’ve already tweaked Firefox to use all the privacy features anyway.
I know there’s some extra sauce implemented in LibreWolf that Firefox lacks, but that stuff seems like too much of a compromise for me (like canvas fingerprinting).
Plus, I think orange looks nicer in my window list than blue.
I also don’t use tor or a vpn unless I can’t access anything otherwise. I guess I don’t really see the need to, since I don’t think I’m doing anything that’ll draw the government’s attention.
Firefox may silently opt you into “features” such as targeted advertising. Librewolf acts as a barrier.
Also “nothing to hide” is fine if you have nothing to say and you don’t care about liberty.
You can turn off canvas fingerprinting or any added feature with a single checkbox. I used to feel the same way about LibreWolf, but once I familiarized myself with the different settings, it became clearly the superior option if you value privacy. I also set my Firefox settings strictly, but then they added new “features” and turned them on by default. That was the last straw for me.
I started moving from Firefox to LibreWolf and found a few too many convenient features broke.
I think password and bookmark syncing was too difficult to move away from, as I use them across devices/phone.
Haven’t had time to research alternative methods or practices.
you can enable firefox sync from the librewolf settings. that’s what i do and it works flawlessly
does using chrome make you naked or something?
unless it’s just equivalent to firefox, which i doubt.
I use Microsoft Edge (parental controls and uBlock). That that made me whatever is beyond naked? Like one of those clear dummies in a health class that shows organs?
nah, i think probably just, transparent, like visually see-through.
It certainly will after it kills Manifest v2 entirely soon. goodbye good version of ublock
Internet explorer makes you naked for sure.
Chrome maybe in swim trunks at a shopping mall. Everyone (advertisers etc) can see you and you’re weirdly exposed.
this one makes sense, i like this one.
And dont forget the the sunglasses either. Every chrome users wears a pair of sunglasses inside for sure.
I’d trust IE a lot more than I’d trust chrome.
Y’know it is discontinued and has a lot of dangerous settings but I just pulled a cve count and you may be on to something.
I exclusively browse with cURL and manually parse HTML myself the old fashioned way
Why parse the HTML manually when
sedis a standard utility and you can use it to parse it with regex?Insert copypasta of angry nerd ranting about using regex to parse html.
Ooh, it’s my turn to link this beauty.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags
[Richard Stallman] usually does not browse the web directly from his personal computer. Instead, he uses GNU Womb’s grab-url-from-mail utility, an email-based proxy which downloads the webpage content and then emails it to the user.
If you’re not doing this you’re not properly paranoid.
schizofox “Hardened Firefox flake for the delusional and the schizophrenics.”
is this what terry davis used
I was going to say that librewolf has no declarative extension config on nix, but this does. Neat.
Arkenfox if anything
What anime is that?
The character is Miyako Hoshino, the protagonist of Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!), a yuri romcom about a college student falling in love with an elementary schooler, written by a guy
Yes, lesbian pedophile is a subgenre now, and it’s mediocre as fuck at best
Oh well. Now I wish I didn’t ask.
I am slowly moving to waterfox :3
It isn’t bad
I migrated from firefox to librewolf AND Tor this week. Help.
I saw a post earlier this week where Firefox was adding an AI to the browser? That’d make me migrate to libre wolf or water fox.
yea their weird choices of late made me realize that the focus was shifted to money-making and not privacy. So I jumped the ship
Firefox was so close to taking all the users from Chrome
I would use LibreWolf IF it had cloud sync, since that’s a feature I actively use with regular Firefox.
it does
Oh well looks like I should look into that then lol thanks!
Cloud sync is not for the paranoid
Unless said cloud is self hosted at home.
Tor Browser is this kid wearing many layers of different masks and hoodies, and changing them randomly whenever the mood strikes.
I have five browsers and couple vpns and some extras that I have mix matched to create sort of tier system depending on how legal is the activity I partake in.
Most illegal though you have to physically relocate to some unprotected/enterable hotspot by car
Is that why you are posting it here?
This isn’t the reason I am posting it here
