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LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser? Thoughts, comments, concerns? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

trust: The biggest trust factor difference to me is, who manages the package and how it is installed. Both are not packaged by my distribution maintainers, therefore I have trust issues with a program that important. However both are available as Flatpak. So I would recommend to install it this way.
updates: Another big factor is how often these are updated, especially security patches. In example for any Firefox based browser, I would not want to wait longer than 1 day before the fork is on the same version as the mainline Firefox.

I personally would prefer LibreWolf over Mullvad, because it is based off Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I personally would prefer LibreWolf over Mullvad, because it is based off Firefox.

They both are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

LibreWolf ← Firefox
Mullvad ← Tor ← Firefox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I like LibreWolf, but I don't like that it wipes cookies and session tokens each time you launch it. I understand why they do it, but it's a consideration outside my threat model, so it just annoys me.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then just turn those specific settings off?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Both are good

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