Yes. I consider it better because it’s preconfigured for privacy, includes UBlock Origin by default, and rips Mozilla’s telemetry out. So you never have to worry about them sneaking something new in a later update.
Yes. I consider it better because it’s preconfigured for privacy, includes UBlock Origin by default, and rips Mozilla’s telemetry out. So you never have to worry about them sneaking something new in a later update.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I’m more worried about the updates not happening in a timely fashion. Is it just a passion project by a handful of devs, or is there some kind of funding?
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Update frequency/latency hasn’t been an issue in the 2 years I’ve been using it.
librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Sure, but what about in 2 years from now?
I used IronFox for a couple years and it suddenly stopped getting updates, and it took me a few months to realize and switch to something else. I don’t want that to happen again.
I like the idea of librewolf, especially that it’s just a patch set on top of Firefox, but someone needs to maintain that patch set. This would be fine for simpler software, but browsers are complex and I just worry that updates will stall out with little warning.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
as I understand their build system is automatic. updates are not, but they have an update checker companion thing, and flathub too can manage that if you install from there
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
I’ve been using IronFox since it came out and I don’t think it has been out for 2 years yet… are you thinking of Mull from which it was forked when DivestOS stop being maintained?
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Certainly a valid concern, but it’s true with any software. I think enough people (techies especially) are using LibreWolf that a lack of updates would be visible quickly.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Two years is enough time for Firefox itself to cease to exist. Cross that bridge when you burn it
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m not a contributor to LibreWolf so I can’t speak with authority on it but I can’t imagine that they are so different from Firefox that they wouldn’t be able to just merge 99% of updates from FF with minimal effort.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
From looking at the repo, it looks like it’s simply a set of patches that get applied to the Firefox source code. They don’t maintain a fork, just a set of changes just prior to building.