How my Firefox became a LibreWolf
New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf
#firefox #librewolf #tos #webcomic
@[email protected] Librewolf sur FreeBSD ici👍
#RunBSD
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Vivaldi right now and it works great.@[email protected] But Vivaldi is not free/libre and open source software… This is even not an option on my operating system as it is really impossible to know what Vivaldi dev are doing with your data.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Unfortunately, what fork of Chromium do you recommend then? Brave is a shady crypto project run by a less than nice person, Chrome & Edge I hope I don’t have to explain, and Opera? I really hope I don’t have to go any further.
Also, when Mozilla eventually goes, so does Librewolf, Waterfox, and the rest. There’s no way that the Firefox forks will be able to pick up the pieces in time.
Unfortunately, I am stuck on Vivaldi because it has PWAs and isn’t going to die.
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I’m hooked on the Wolf, been using it for over a year.Once in a while I use furryfox for some fussy-ass site that I have to do one thing on once in a blueish moon.
@[email protected] Haha, I typed in a search engine for “furryfox” before realizing it was your way of naming Firefox. 😆
Catchy name.
Yes, I’ll keep my Firefox too in background. Right now mainly to compare when I have an issue with LibreWolf, and also to test my blog and peppercarrot website. 😉@[email protected] LOL Yeah, I get too cute sometimes.
It’s good to have a few different browsers for website testing. I have an assortment of different browser profiles too. I use dedicated profiles mostly to keep Gahoogle and Zuckland noses out of my business.
@[email protected] also flounced off Mastodon after they received well deserved criticism.
Is @[email protected] doing the same? 🫤🤷♂️
The ceo gravy train keeps going.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I’m not sure how official the account you linked here is, the branding feels off and it’s not really noted in the bio this is their official new account.
Before December, Mozilla had their instance, and decided to remove it ( src. https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/ )
Proton also really manage their PR like rotten potatoes imo ( https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/ )
… both company also abuse marketing bs wording and praise AI. Not surprising they are criticized here.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I mean something as simple like text-to-speech or OCR or machine translation models (like Google Translate/DeepL) can be considered “AI” technically. I’m a student and many courses involving creating our own models from scratch and many of my projects involving use models like tesseract-ocr, turtle-tts, YOLO, LLaMA,… for some tasks and this is painful for me as many outputs don’t even make sense and I had to tweak a lot.
@[email protected] i deleted firefox litllery just today from my distro, and replaced it with librewolf
its working great!@[email protected] good luck getting sec patches in time
Honestly. The biggest dilemma browsers seem to have isn’t just funding but how to maintain they’re absolutely massive code bases.
Either we really do a very large and robust org like the Linux kernel group, or we need to find a way to massive reduce the complexity of the browser.
Servo is exciting and ladybird too. Maybe their fresher starts can bring in the opportunity to do that.
@fruitycoder the group exists and is called blink, managed by google who got tired of working with apple on khtml and forked it to do what they wanted.
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@[email protected] who is behind Librewolf?
@[email protected] Have a look at their profile here: https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf
@[email protected] I did but there are no names there. :(
I may sometimes use open-source tools that I don’t know who made them. But I don’t feel comfortable using them for a browser. If it’s a honeypot created by intelligence agencies or North Korean hackers, I have no idea. 😬
@[email protected] It’s a community fork. So, you have to meet their community. Scroll down the page to the “Core contributor” section. I see 8 profiles here.
You can check their public activities on Codeberg, and follow links on their profile. You can also discuss with them on their Matrix chat room.
I am going to ladybird it bro
@[email protected] Well, I visited their webpage and read their Wikipedia. But only checking they are still active on X was a red flag to me so far to get interested in.
@[email protected] same same.
@[email protected] I switched to LibreWolf two month ago and it works nicely.
@[email protected] je te suis et pas que pour la qualité de ton travail ! je vais l’installer de suite sur mon portable Frame.Work Fedora. Et pour ton mobile, tu as choisi quoi ?
@[email protected] Merci. Sur mobile jusque là c’était Firefox sur un Android dégooglisé… enfin au mieu possible car c’est quasi impossible de faire un 100%.
Mais là je teste la semaine prochaine https://iode.tech/ , c’est du https://lineageos.org/ mélangé avec de la revente de matos reconditionné. Je donnerai des news sur le blog si ça fait bien le taf, surtout si au niveau photo/video ça arrive à suivre. ☺️
@[email protected] alors je serai attentif à tes futures publications. Sur mon Fairphone avec Murena OS, je testerai le navigateur par défaut pour désinstaller dès que possible Firefox aussi. Iels verront vite la baisse de leur utilisation, sans doute lors des prochaines mises à jour…
@[email protected] ah mais c’est un OS complet… je cherchais juste un navigateur pour mon Fairphone qui tourne sous Murena OS… mais je suis curieux de lire ton retour d’expérience qd même. En commençant par le navigateur inclus ;-)
@[email protected] The artwork and the alt text describing it are both poignant and touching.
I’m about to migrate from Firefox (which I’ve been using since it was Netscape 3.04) to Librewolf as well. It’s nice to feel welcomed.
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I wonder what the Linux distros that have Firefox in the default install are going to do going forward?#linuxmint #linux
@[email protected] Long time LibreWolf user. I have recently installed “Floorp” on one of my machine, also a fork of Firefox. It has the added advantage of being non-US based (Japan). Seems good, but too early to be definitive.
@[email protected] Nice, that the first web browser suggestion in all the comments I received that I didn’t know of existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorp , very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
