Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Librewolf, my beloved.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is the first I’ve heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good?

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    • ivn@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You really shouldn’t connect windows 7 to the internet.

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    • jrgd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      librewolf.net

      A summary from its site and known technical details:

      • no telemetry by default
      • includes uBlock Origin
      • has sane privacy-respecting defaults
      • prepackages arkenfox user.js
      • relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream
      • No major controversies AFAIK

      As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Looks like it should run on Windows.

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ❤

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’re overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge “stan” for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox’s grave and actively avoid it everywhere… However. If I’m wrong, there will be a Next Thing…

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah I’m using Fennec, which doesn’t have that. But as long as it’s a flick of a switch to disable, I don’t really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3.

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• TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Firefox is no longer an adversary to Google for the browser market, if it ever was. FF has become a vassal of Google that with its tyranny is dictating the course of the internet, such as WEI that as far as I know it was abandoned at least for now.

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• pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least link the full article and not just the headline… smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox’s CTO. heise.de/…/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done…

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