What's your opinion on LibrewWolf?
Long time firefox user, very wary of using forks. Anyone tried it? What are your thoughts?
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Would prefer mullcad browser which is a fork
I use it everyday. I switched because I had trouble using NIP07 on some sites with Firefox. I'm not sure why, but LibreWolf just works better.
How is their update schedule? Are they often delayed from upstream firefox?
I'm mainly worried about security bug fixes, etc.
"LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.
It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them."
can confirm. on fedora and have the librewolf repo added. i get new versions on or around the same time new firefox versions come out. Sometimes, the LW repo has it ready before the Fedora FF maintainers do.
It is my daily browser, I am very satisfied with it 🐺
My daily browser
Which distro do you use? On arch it's only in the AUR which makes me uneasy since it's less secure than main repos.
Possibly their appimage or flatpak would work for you?
It would but I prefer to use a single package manager.
Does anybody know whether there are any plans for iOS version?
It's very cool but Floorp browser is also worth looking into
it's good. typing from it now and have used it for some time.
if you are coming from firefox, then depending on your preferences / how much security you like / how much of a chore you find changing app settings to be, then you may find some of the default settings off-putting.
For example, by default, LW is set to not store passwords and forget browsing history. But you can configure it to behave exactly as FF if you want to. That said, some of the about:config settings are better imo. For example, there's a setting for puny codes (used to prevent unicode characters that are visually identical to certain latin characters from being easily used in a phishing attack). Chromium-based browsers enable puny codes by default and I think it is a perfectly sane rational decision to do so, given the security implications. But for whatever reason, mozilla always ships with puny codes disabled. LW ships with them enabled.
Other than that, I haven't noticed much differences from firefox; haven't encountered any addons that work in one but not the other or that sort of thing.
I use it for one of my man alt profiles. Not a main. always a delay between firefox and librewolf updates. that alone makes me mostly rely on firefox for main browser security. I do use firedragon as well though.
Use Mulvad browser much better
I use it semi regularly, happy with it and have had no issues so far!
I love it.
Starts much faster and very light on memory. My daily driver since I discovered it. Chromium, Firefox, Brave start slow, hog CPU for no apparent reason and much heavier on memory. Needed an alternative because my aging laptop couldn't cope anymore and found it in Librewolf. Under NixOS.
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