Librewolf. I yearn for something better for ios. I'm sticking woth firefox because all my tabs & shit are synced.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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Well, I use them all. It depends on the services I access and the threats that affect them (and therefore me). Firefox for studying and sites that use WebGL; Librewolf for everyday browsing. Oh yeah, and there's Tor.
What is it when one fires up 30 selenium instances using the Firefox webdriver, all loading random sites and clicking links, then route all personal traffic through tor?
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Librewolf is better than Tor in some ways. Tor has ads
Honestly, there are probably enough people using ublock with tor browser that you can still retain most of the benefits if you do the same. You'll just be in a smaller cohort than if you didn't.
I rarely have a reason to use Tor and the ads always shock me when I do. I find it weird that most people are experiencing the internet with oldschool ads in their normal day-to-day browsing.
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Icecat: hoodie, eye patch, mask, a baseball cap, and an umbrella
Firefox with Tor for specific stuff
Librewolf enables fingerprinting preventation which makes some websites / fields very laggy. I can disable it but what's the point of using Librewolf then? Also using FF is not paranoid, it is the only free software I installed that sticked with my family. Tor has a wholly different purpose.
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Firefox. Librewolf's defaults make it very inconvenient to use as a normal, day to day web browser. You can obviously change all of that but at that point you might as well just use Firefox with a handful of add-ons so that's what I'm doing.
I just changed my browsing habits. Frankly I've also realized having the internet be less convenient has made me more mentally healthy
My issue isn't that it's breaking sites. It's the fingerprint resistance making the basic user experience unpleasant. Refusing to remember window size, forcing light mode, etc. I understand why, but those aren't sacrifices I'm willing to make.
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Edge: *naked with an ad tattooed on the back*
Tattooed on the lower back to be more specific
Librewolf, but I'd argue it's more of a Firefox/web debloater reason. No pocket, no VPN ads. I would have said that the only issue is that it is a pain to update, but they added a windows updater and software repos, so I would almost recommend it over stock firefox for normies.
And I use tor to search stuff that contains sensitive data like my location... Or when a website is blocked
This is the argument I keep using for why people should use Linux more. The fact you have to run updater software for each piece of software is so stupid. It's a horrible solution to a poorly designed problem. On Linux I just tell my package manager to update everything and it takes care of it all. There's no need for the user to be handling all of that, and it also shouldn't have to update in starting the application because that's when the user wants to use it, not wait for an update.
(For reference: it's the same thing as on your phone where it tells you the number of things that need updated and you just tell it to update whenever you feel like it.)
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it is a pain to update, but they added a windows updater
the linux package manager in question
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And as a more advanced user, I need nightly (for custom compiled addons), and just configured everything relevant to be as close to LibreWolf as possible/good for privacy.
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I don't know what Floorp makes me...
Picture one but in a Japanese/anime style. Wait a second
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Librewolf
That's what she said