I know this has been discussed many times, but I’m curious of if anything changed on community thoughts on Librewolf. If I remember correctly, the biggest issue with Librewolf was that it didn’t update quickly enough. Is that a fair assumption? Following the recommendation by Louis below, I’m wondering if that issue is still present?
Even with the Firefox privacy policy fiasco, the community consensus on Librewolf is that it isn’t necessary compared to other alternatives.
To grossly oversimplify:
- Tor Browser for anonymity
- Mullvad Browser for anti-fingerprinting and general browsing
- Firefox with arkenfox or Brave for retaining login sessions
Feel free to use Librewolf as a means of protest as it probably won’t harm you as many community members might have you think. However, PG won’t recommend software that would be inferior compared to existing recommendations.
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So following this:
My question that would remain is, how is Librewolf inferior compared to existing recommendations?
If I remember correctly, the biggest issue with Librewolf was that it didn’t update quickly enough. Is that a fair assumption? Louis Rossman, just recently recommended Librewolf, so I’m wondering if that issue is still present?
Let’s say I haven’t watched his video, does he actually mention any of the points that have been brought up in this thread?
Louis Rossmann does not exactly have a history of approaching things from a privacy & cybersecurity perspective. LibreWolf is certainly aligned with the ideals which are most important to him, which is perfectly fine.
I don’t think most things Rossmann recommends would make it on privacyguides.org though.
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No, his video is mostly about what happened at Mozilla recently (communication mistake). But he starts with recommending Librewolf as a ready-browser out-of the box without the need to play in the settings. Which seems nice, but I just re-read this whole thread and the 2 key points still don’t seem to be addressed by LibreWolf which are:
- Lack of automatic updates
- Poor frequency on updates
The reason why I was wondering at all is, if Mozilla really did screw-up, what would be the short-term go to place?
To answer a common question here, why Librewolf instead of Mullvad or Brave? I need 3 browsers and already have Mullvad and Brave installed for separate use-cases.
Yeah, I don’t really have good answers, except for the last thing you mentioned it seems like multiple Brave profiles would do the trick. That’s a bit off topic though, but obviously you could start a new #privacy:questions thread if you actually want advice about what 3 browsers to use.
it seems as if the poor frequency updates was actually solved on LIbrewolf, I remember in the critical vulenrtability the librewolf community was able to immediately patch it as fast as others, but i digress.
The lack of automatic updates is for sure the biggest downside.
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I appreciate your reply!
This is a great question I’m looking into!