Librewolf Browser (Firefox Fork)

Security risks have their own standards and assessments. It’s not something to ignore just because the software brings something different of privacy to the upstream. GrapheneOS rejects Gecko-browsers because of their security risks although forks like Mull bring a lot of improvements in privacy (and actually security with JIT-disabled) comparing to chromium.

I did not just compare with AF alone.

Who would assure that the next 31/71 virus detection of Mullvad won’t be false positive any more?

Why is only Librewolf’s security is a concern while Mullvad showed the same security concern with that? I know about Mullvad’s response. My point here is if you bring security as an aspect to reject, please back it up with valid evidence because it’s a serious topic.

(And actually the non-autoupdateable of AF brings a contradiction to PG’s update criterion, and a “difference” of LW with FF+AF, but ok if no one wants to discuss between LW and AF, I won’t discuss it further).


Again, as I said above, if we count “bringing something different” as a hidden criterion, I won’t oppose it and there would be none of this discussion. But if you bring security concern as another half of equation, please back up that half clearly with security-based evidence, not via “its privacy trade-off aspect” because it’s a whole other serious field with plenty of resources and can easily raise many other people’s eyebrows.

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