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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I'm considering switching to LibreWolf after all the AI crap Mozilla is adding

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Librewolf is great. I just add exceptions for a handful of sites I want to retain sessions for and it is very usable as a daily driver

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    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 hotspot by car

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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I migrated from firefox to librewolf AND Tor this week. Help.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    schizofox "Hardened Firefox flake for the delusional and the schizophrenics."

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

    I was going to say that librewolf has no declarative extension config on nix, but this does. Neat.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

    is this what terry davis used

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    [–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

    you can enable firefox sync from the librewolf settings. that’s what i do and it works flawlessly

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

    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 β€œfeatures” and turned them on by default. That was the last straw for me.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    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

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Librewolf is just a usable Firefox

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    Firefox is a completely usable Firefox.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Tor Browser serves a different purpose/use-case to the first two. The first two are intended for everyday browsing while I've never heard of anyone using Tor Browser as their daily browserβ€”and if you log into websites then using Tor Browser as your daily driver would defeat the anonymity purposes if you're logging in anyway.

    I use librewolf for everyday browsing and Tor Browser for things requiring a higher threat model.

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