LibreWolf
LibreWolf, the community-maintained fork of Librefox: a privacy and security-focused browser.
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This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
LibreWolf is NOT associated with Mozilla or its products.
Features
Latest Version of Firefox: LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
Completely Independent Build: LibreWolf uses a completely independent build from Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path. As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up): embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed. In other words, zero unauthorized or background connections by default.
User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within librewolf.cfg and policies.json, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/LibreWolf itself or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing librewolf.cfg and policies.json.
LibreWolf-addons: set of optional LibreWolf extensions
Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
Tested settings: settings are performance aware
Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
Dark theme (classic and advanced)
Recommended and code reviewed addons list
Community-Driven
And much more…
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
LibreWolf is NOT associated with Mozilla or its products.
Features
Latest Version of Firefox: LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
Completely Independent Build: LibreWolf uses a completely independent build from Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path. As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up): embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed. In other words, zero unauthorized or background connections by default.
User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within librewolf.cfg and policies.json, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/LibreWolf itself or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing librewolf.cfg and policies.json.
LibreWolf-addons: set of optional LibreWolf extensions
Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
Tested settings: settings are performance aware
Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
Dark theme (classic and advanced)
Recommended and code reviewed addons list
Community-Driven
And much more…
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It focuses on privacy.
I downloaded the appimage and am most impressed with Librewolf so far. Installation was as easy as it gets, it seems faster than Firefox, and it fared well in the EFF's Cover Your Tracks fingerprinting test. In fact, out of the box it was more resistant to fingerprinting than Firefox, Falkon, and Pale Moon. I see no reason to continue using Firefox.
It's Firefox without all the hypocrisy about privacy.
I am using the Linux .deb and the windows beta .exe and they both work fine except some minor GUI issues.