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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Update frequency/latency hasn’t been an issue in the 2 years I’ve been using it.

  librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨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.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨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

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    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨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?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, mull. My bad. IronFox is the replacement.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Perhaps. But a browser is something I’d prefer to just forget about and not track updates. So it’s very likely that I won’t check if it has gotten updates for a few months.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Two years is enough time for Firefox itself to cease to exist. Cross that bridge when you burn it

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Maybe? It’s a lot less likely for FF to disappear than LibreWolf.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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