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I’ve used both and while Waterfox is pretty good, Librewolf is superior. It’s more aggressive in its privacy settings by default, you can either tone that down or learn to work with it (I recommend the latter, which takes some effort and is a different way of doing things, treating privacy as something you have to actively opt-out of on a case by case basis, which will benefit you in the long run).

Unlike Waterfox, Librewolf has also never had a problem where it “accidentally” sold itself to an advertising company and then changed its mind, but even despite Waterfox’s strange and concerning escapades with System1, I still think Librewolf is simply better on its own merits, nevermind its moral purity.

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BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The only reason I stopped using Librewolf is because it has to install from binaries on update and that took a nonsignificant amount of time on at least Arch.

I didn’t love the extra overhead from the security, but I would do it if it didn’t mean 15 min updates seemingly every couple of days. Maybe I’m an anomaly and was doing something wrong, and I’d love to hear if others have something better, but I just try to adjust my behaviour accordingly.

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sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Is there a way to have one installation of “locked down” librewolf for private browsing, and then a second one with compatibility settings for web-apps where you are logged in, etc? Coexisting on the same system?

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- cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The most compartmentalized setup would be to run librewolf --ProfileManager as a command to start the profile manager, you can set up multiple profiles, and it will either prompt you at startup, or you can create shortcuts for each profile with librewolf -P <profilename>. Each one is basically a completely different instance, with different settings, different history, and different addons.
  
  Personally, I think that’s overkill, but it may suit you.
  
  The approach I’d recommend, is to leave the default settings on, and once you spend enough time setting up your exceptions and umatrix configuration for the sites you do want to be logged in at or buy stuff with, you can get the best of both worlds in one profile, but admittedly that takes a little more know-how and work, and it sometimes feels like it never ends, but it does get much better once you’ve got 95% of your typical stuff sorted out.
  
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  - sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    There are some things I couldn’t figuRe out how to turn off on a site by site basis, namely Resist Fingerprinting. And some sites I needed weren’t working with it on.
    
    I’ll try the profiles
    
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    cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I believe this works but I agree there should be a UI for it (preferably under the “enhanced tracking protection” shield to the left of the URL), and I have to admit I run with RFP disabled too. It’s close, but I think it still needs a little more work to be practical, for most people at least.
    
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