LibreWolf Is A Web Browser For Privacy and Freedom
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Librewolf strips out all of the telemetry from Firefox and enables a bunch extra security settings out of the box. It has uBlock installed by default and it supports privacy conscious search engines.
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life without an adblocker in is a hellish nightmare, good to see it's default in librewolf
& that too Ublock origin
It's open source
Check our Brave Browser
@@LuciferArc1 sure, why don't you try out chrome as well
@@AcidiFy574 sorry. I dont like Spyware
@@LuciferArc1 guess what brave is based of
(Chromium=spyware)
if it was based off of UnGoogl-ed chromium, THEN, I'd be singing a different tune
Installed, loving it so far. Running Manjaro with XFCE on my Macbook Air because I was concerned about Apple spying - so disabling Mozilla spying made a lot of sense too. Thank you!
Just installed it too. Running Manjaro KDE. Replaced Windows 11 on a brand new laptop because I was not having any of that Microsoft noise.
Apple can spy on you from a firmware and hardware level. Just because it ain’t intel anymore dosent mean there’s no management engine counterpart in m1
@@starleighpersonal Well not having the OS not broadcast every app I run is still an improvement.
Like your local homepage. Where can I get a copy of it (or the CSS) so I can imitate it?
gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles/-/tree/master/.surf/html
Wow, nice! Trying it out tonight.
Ublock Origin is there probably to improve privacy, for less tracking etc.
7:17 😂 | i just for an API ad after you said that there should be a force start custom page.
DT - You can run an http server on localhost and place your homepage on that, simplest way would be via `python -m http.server` when inside a folder with just your page in it as index.html
Really hope to have LibreWolf download for my windows machine as well eventually.
I use the Flatpak version on Linux Mint and it's working great!
Seems to be more lightweight than Firefox too.
I guess this is an older video, but just wanted to let you know the new tab page now can have shortcuts, and at least youtube videos can be watched as well. Haven't tried with netflix.
Edging me to installing Linux Mint on my daily machine. Still using Windows 8.1 for the moment. Planing to transition away sometime before the end of 8.1's security updates.
@Pedro Ferreira I decided to install Mint a couple months ago. When installing I saw the dual boot option so that's what I did.
@Pedro Ferreira I do like it, though there's always quirks to find. Just the other day I noticed no easy way (in my knowledge) to reverse the left/right audio channels. Due to my setup the cables won't reach unless the speakers are reversed.
Looking for libre wolf for windows 7 32 bit...we only find it on 64 bit..my laptops are 32 bit whit only 2 gigabyte Ram...and run win XP, win 7 and one with Linux mint 19.1.. can't change now all my OS to 64 bit...that easy
what do you do with google youtube not allowing you to watch a video because of a blocking browser
librewolf is the new firefox, now that mozilla has gone full ccp social credit system
and they'll come foor librewolf ...
"now that mozilla has gone full ccp social credit system" What does this mean?
@@daedalusspacegames Did you miss the part when they called for more deplatforming for wrong think last week?
blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
@@ricardo5622 I didn't. I suspected that was what you were talking about but I struggle to make the connection between what you claim Mozilla is calling for, "ccp social credit system", and what they actually called for: "Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact" and "Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation" being the points that stood out to me.
@@daedalusspacegames Its amazing how much people care about what others say about what corporate executives say. At the very least it would be better if they read what was actually said from the original source. Even better than that would be if people focused on what actions those executives took.
I use brave on win 11 and want to move to linux. Would I be able to import my passwords into librewolf?
Pale Moon is not a firefox fork, pale moon runs on Goanna engine
Librewolf is totally bugs: 1. It does not allow you to search for a search engine, 2. password saving does not work. turns gray, so it's useless like that.
is there anyway to get your hompage extension that u use in ur browser?
No. Compiling Browsers takes 40ninutes with some Basic optimizations. Was about 3 hours w/o them. AMD FX 9590 bulldozer 16gb ram
Tabliss works for a new tab
The thang im looking for is environment and not 2 GB ram and like 2 cores. i like images and sound. i like gecko os but debain is universal.
Interesting fork. Looks like pinning tabs works while the program is open, but when you close it and re-start, they do not appear. Until that bug is fixed, I'll use qutebrowser. But I'll keep an eye on this one.
That is because if you have it delete history at close, it deleted them as well, as part of the history. I noticed it as well and that fixed it for me
@@linuxmathguy7995 fixed - thanks for that.
You know, DT, I think that you are being unreasonable. Yes the ideas matter, but really, I want just a good browser. And depending on what I need to be done I will browser hop.
My webcam didn't work with app image,I could not install any other version since I am on void, is it the appimage? Or is the browser just too hardened? Or is just my broken system?
As far as I know, AppImages don't have access to your computer - they are ran in an isolated VM like environment. Much more secure but of course you lose features like that.
DT - no need to install the HTTPS everywhere addon - LW has HTTPS-Only Mode enabled by default
No it doesn't
@@AcidiFy574 about:preferences#privacy You will see that HTTPS-Only Mode is set to Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows. This is on a default install of LibreWolf-bin from the AUR
@@Chris-ip8uv I checked, well the AppImage version
@@AcidiFy574 Ah. That could be. My mistake. I should have clarified :)
@Chris
I`ve never ever had any problems installing Add-ons in Firefox ... it's child's play and quick to do
Been using LibreWolf for a few weeks and it runs really well. I had to put the remember history back for ease of use but it runs so good on old hardware and has not crashed once on Pop! OS. In fact, I've liked it so much I started looking for ways to support it.
Mull is available on mobile and is the closest thing to LibreWolf for Android
I used librewolf for a while, my only disappointment was that I couldn't import my firefox credentials
I spent the day learning Qute browser. -I love rarely having to touch the mouse, learning VIM controls (I wouldn't learn VIM otherwise), and messing with the config as well as getting MPV as my PiP which totally blows away Firefox and Vivaldi and bypasses youtube ads! DTs got some good Qute configs / videos.
@@madthumbs1564 qutebrowser recently got an updated adblocker aswell. It works kinda well
cool idea, just hope they have installers soon. I still love Firefox dev tools, but at work I have to use Windows...
@Hai Red wut? No
They might be similar in functionality, but totally different
Part of the problem with Linux. People putting out Linux software think users actually want to compile their own shit.
@@KTSpeedruns Bull.. you apparently don't know how to use your software center then. . Makes it very simple, without even having to touch a command line. You're just jumping in too early on this project.
Libre wolf is compiled Firefox, with their own patches applied. On Mac, you have to patch a Firefox disk image.. on windows, they don't even have a version yet.. Basically, RTFM and compile it, wait for an executable, or go back to mac/windows and wait longer. Pretty simple.
@@debtminer4976 or just use the AUR and install the bin, it takes 1 minute in my laptop
@@sethsrc792 Exactly. . That's the beauty of the AUR.
I don't have time, to check everything what's available. Thanks for recommendation.
first search on Internet returns > "Librewolf is promoted as "the community-maintained fork of Librefox: a privacy and security-focused browser" however Librewolf is suffering from the same problems as Waterfox. Librewolf is a set of scripts and patches that removes the Firefox telemetry feature among other things. However, a network dump reveals that the very first time Librewolf is started it immediately contacts the Mozilla add-on CDN, Amazon Cloudfront, and several other places even though automatic updates of extensions is disabled by default." // unixsheikh.com
is that good or bad?
@@outlierjahd7910 Bad. They are not doing what they are claiming.
Hey dt, what is that "Your browser is being managed by your organization" thing on top of the preferences page?
Lix Alexander said. It's often used by your work or something, so you can't mess with the settings. Windows says something similar. But in this case, it acts as an extra layer of privacy, because even if you wanted to, you can't turn on tracking.
a good way to get around the local file issue, is if you already have hosting, just host the plain HTML page on your hosting and point to it for your home page. :)
Hey dt this lets you use a local fine > new-tab-override
oh looks like you have it just disabled
I like this browser Derek. Are you planning on a follow up video once you see if the blank tabs windows are fixed? Also, I'd be curious to hear your take on the un-Googled Chromium. Thanks for the video, now I have another rabbit hole to go down...... LOL
Possibly!
I'm testing GNU IceCat (which celebrated its release birthday recently), it seems to work nicely though. It compiled in 2:20 hours on my machine 😃 I like GNU IceCat 😊🐱 Not sure if I want to have 25 browsers installed at some point, but I might have a look at Libre Wolf.
My problem with Firefox is their lack of support for free speech as you mentioned in a previous video. I'm interested in FOSS, but free speech is even more important to me.
@Arnoldo Junkes can't blame them either tbh. Cancel culture is cancer.
How exactly has firefox violated free speech?
@@eddyecho They haven't violated free speech, but in a recent video, Derek mentioned his decision to stop using it because the publishers of Firefox said they don't support free speech.
@@el_chrisssss As long as the MPL remains FOSS compatible, I don't see how any of these sound bites make any difference.
@@eddyecho do they violate free speech no... but when they turn on by default... fact-checking... let's be honest it's going to be bais... it's sort of disgusting
They don't have a Windows branch just yet. Waiting on that. I'd love to switch over.
Same
they have windows releases now
@@theodiscusgaming3909 No way. For real? Sweet.
Awesome! I've been looking for a new browser since your last firefox video for my Arco build.
Now I have mixed feelings. Should I stay with brave or switch to LibreWolf ?
I have both installed. :D
@@DistroTube which do you believe is better after using them both?
Try both. Use the one that suits you best.
I think I'll stick to Brave for now just because I'm pretty used to Chrome and like it better than Firefox
Do both
The more these companies go woke the more users leave them.
no they don't
@@qwerty6928 Well thankfully DistroTube is doing a video about it. I'm just trying out Vilvaldi. I do have to admit though that I do use MDN but then again there's always www.w3.org
Go woke go broke
@@qwerty6928 Yes they do
@@zonnodon163 kinda like how nike (the original company to go woke) has actually increased in popularity? Sorry dude these companies know way more about their customers than random youtube commenters
LibreWolf is basically a buildscript for Firefox isn't it?
Mozilla has become corrupted by Google's money.
Well this looks great. I think I'll give it a try.
Finally. Our religion where we wear tin foil hats in fear of the government has a web browser.
With regards to having local file as start page, make it have a localhost-based http url by hosting it a local webserver
file:///home/username/.../home.html -> localhost:111/home.html
What would be a bit of an overkill but ok.
I have used some other tweak to get local file as home page. It was easy to set up.
It involved creation of the two new files in firefox folder (enable-autoconfig.js and autoconfig.cfg)
@rasuru Well, everything's a single command on UN*X.
The question is where will be all these forks of forks of Firefox if Mozilla suddenly ceases to exist? They will all die, because they don't develop anything own and completely depend on Firefox releases. You wish open source software to prosper and dominate, but at the same time you are advocating against Mozilla, which is in fact the only company who makes really valuable and outstanding open source browser using its own engine and being able to compete with Chrome and others. Anything else is just useless one-day forks of forks of other forks of either Chrome or Firefox, which cannot even exist independently, not even speaking about contributing something to open source world. This way you will everyday jump from fork to fork.
Even if it did die; there are still the devs out there. Just look to history about Netscape, Opera, etc. Mozilla ceasing to exist would be a good thing.
@@madthumbs1564 ,- "...there are still the devs out there...".
And what have those devs ever made besides the thousands of forks based on other forks?
missed opportunity to call it WaterWolf
itd maintain the alliteration!
I was thinking Freefox, but that's probably trademarked already.
Pls review Iridium and Pale Moon Browser. Its open source.
An idea. Regarding putting a webpage. Upload your homepage links to your server and point to it. It should work. Down somewhere in the comments there is a solution to DRM.
I've been waiting for either build instructions, or better yet straight builds, of librewolf on Windows, for months now.
I'm not a fan of windows, but I have to use it as a primary OS out of necessity, thus I also need a browser that works on it.
They don't even have it working right for all Linux machines. Imo: too early to jump ship. For now, I'm disabling pocket, and their built-in search engines to prevent revenue for them.
Not directly related to LibreWolf, but assuming that the popup menus look the same for you in Firefox, you need to add this to the blur-background-exclude and shadow-exlude picom rules:
"class_g = 'firefox' && window_type = 'utility'",
The New Tab Override plugin works fine for me, what was wrong with yours as you have deactivated it?
It's a nice browser, but seems to lack the ability to startup with a fixed set of webpages / tabs open. This is the only reason I use another browser - so I can autimatically log into other email accounts (on the same email providers) for example.
Librewolf is awesome but I really don't like running it as a flatpak or appimage and there's really no guide for debian as of yet.
The flatpack isn't even a finished product.
Librewoof
Is it contradicting to sign into email / google account in LibreWolf? I feel like it's necessary to do so but feels contradicting to privacy. What do you think?
why do you preffer librewolf to waterfox for example, i do use waterfox for quite a while for now, change some options here and there, install some privacy extensions like privacy badger, decentraleyes, ublock origin, nocoin, user-agent switcher, change some search engines to startpage, qwant, duckduckgo, and it works fine.
Yes.
Britbox worked but Great courses and Peacock did not. To be fair I would watch that stuff on a Roku TV now a days than on a laptop.
Wasn't Startpage bought out by a data stealing ad company?
Finally taken the plunge and installed LW, as I liked FF but didn't like Mozilla.
I use VIvaldi, google chrome, christmas browser 99, opera,operagx,operanft, obama 08 browser, tor , brace , waterfox, Stannah Chairlift OS, Pokemon Browser, Mario Kart Browser and finally Safari browser
The Addon Gesturefy (Mouse Gestures) is not working in LibreWolf. Does anyone know, how to make it work?
I love wolves. That's enough for me. Ehh I compiled Unreal Engine from scratch. Can't be worse than that time-wise.
Also not to mention that YT can't detect its Adblocker on this browser! I think I've found my permanent browser.
So...I tried Libre wolf with high hopes...the first thing I tried to do was enable dark mode. I got some message telling me I can't and if I really want it I should go use something else? Is that normal?
Anyone know how I can make Librewolf remember all my account information so I don't have to keep logging back in every time I quit it? Or is that more something I should leave up to my password managers? If so, then why does it have an incognito mode if it's already deleting cookies on close?
Watching netflix defeats the purpose of using libre software.
I knew when I saw political propaganda from 'Pocket' that Firefox was going downhill. We need a return to a meritocracy in the community. However I'm starting to feel it's too late. Goolag has already cemented their shit into society.
Be careful with DuckDuckGo, they did some dodgy censoring around the truckers movement.
Does librewolf strip something out from the codebase? Afaik it comes with some blobs(Firefox) or is it just Firefox with some settings and extensions
I just want something that doesn't put am invisible images in front of a video or picture that stops me from downloading them. Somebody please help!
Thanks Derek, for all the interesting and cool videos. I enjoy them very much.
It's in the AUR but you have to build it. Takes awhile but screw it, just go do something else for awhile.
Bye Firefox !
Switched to Librewolf (AppImage under Mint).
I know not too much about the deep insides of computer architecture. Could a program be compiled to search out any high tek company gathering info and send garbage but acceptable data?
better use qutebrowser, it works with keyboard and vim controls :)
thanks. what would you recommend for an email client instead of Mozilla's thunderbird?
Mailspring
I was rather disappointed with Mozilla's ridiculous endorsement of censorship over the President suppossedly endorsing violence when he in fact did the opposite. I will definitely check out LibreWolf because I prefer Mozilla's presentation but without their corporate attitude.
Thanks, I just installed it from the AUR. It installed without issue. I then added it to FireJail.
hey DT u think you could share that local homepage you got, It is pretty cool
GNU IceCat vs librewolf - what's the difference?
Wow, talked for 16 minutes and didn't really say shit.
Does anyone know if I can use the add on "open bookmarks in new tab" or something that does that?
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!, been looking for a firefox replacement form my desktop, vivaldi is really cool but is not 100% open source, and I don't like how brave feels, so this is of much help for me, thanks again!
@BlackWorm fair enough, but as a programmer I appreciate every bit of code that makes function a nice piece of software, even more if it is nicely written, so we can all look at it as an example, that is other of the advantages of open source software in my opinion, is not all about privacy and security but about much more stuff that makes it useful.
Just my opinion.
Still loved my 2 days with Vivaldi tho xD
If i compile this, how will the updates work? Will i have to compile it every time?
tabliss* is a great new tab extension imo. Seems really lightweight, maybe check it out.
@Saeed Habibi Yeah I love it. I think I've used it for the past year or so. I switched to Brave a couple days ago and disabled their new tab page and setup tabliss.
Great video, did not know about this, Mozilla's direction has been deeply disappointing, hopefully Librewolf gets some windows builds too, if enough users defect maybe it will bring some long needed changes in leadership at Mozilla.
disappointing for what?
Why not just create a node.js service that host the html page pointing to localhost?
Won't Librewolf die if Firefox dies since it relies on security updates from Firefox?
Pretty sure it won't die. Opera is still here despite their nonsense. The switch is to defund, and send a message.
DT, don't you already have a web server? Just put your common links page on your server and point the homepage to your website
You're exaggerating compile times a bit. More like 45 minutes (for Firefox), unless your system doesn't have a decent CPU.
How I can set my own start page? Any idea? Google gave me nothing
So many great PC web browsers. I use my phone more then PC (Android not IOS) and it's hard to find a browser I like as most suck. I do like bromite.
Brave is good on Android.
They're mostly Chrome or Firefox based. I'm fine with Chrome based on my android phone, but for PC I want something else.
For any IOS user out there, apple forces there website engine
I appreciate you DT! You get a lot of hate from the NPC idiots out there but there are plenty of us sane people out here who support your work and your stance on freedom.
I would use it but did it have an app version?
Mazilla always gives upgradation issue ...useless vrowser
I have to use Windows on my work PC but it looks like there is no LW for Windows, :sadpanda :(
This is exciting!
We can't set startup for "open previous windows and tabs"
It is nice web browser, but there are some gotchas that i didn't like. I think I will stick to firefox
@Marco All of the locked settings are tracking and privacy based. None of the customization features are locked. Unless you *want* to send your data to super corporations like Google and Faceberg and whatever else, I don't see the problem.