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Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] 22 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It might be easier to soften Librewolf than harden Firefox, but fair point.

If you're a relatively normal user and you still want to use LibreWolf, I would recommend:

  • disable fingerprinting
  • not clearing history on exit

Most of this is easy to find, especially thanks to the LibreWolf menu

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah it's all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don't want.

    I don't get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being "too hard". Like it's 1 minute clicking through menus and you're done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

    But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Maybe, but if you want Librewolf but less extreme, that's what Waterfox is for. May as well just install that and avoid the 5 minute search. And this is coming from a long time Librewolf user.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It broke youtube for me yesterday and mind you I’m a web developer and I didn’t know what broke it exactly to turn it on/off.

    It fixed it self today though.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That was almost certainly YouTube breaking itself. They do a lot of public A-B testing without notifying the user of anything, even if it could break functionality.

    The chances of Librewolf breaking, and updating in 24 hours is basically zero. Especially if you're on Windows since it doesn't update itself, you have to choose to install the separate updater application when you install Librewolf, otherwise it just doesn't update.

    https://codeberg.org/librewolf/librewolf-winupdater

    https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

    How often do you update LibreWolf?

    LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.

    It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah I agree it was probably a/b testing since I use ublock origin as well so I’m use to this kind of stuff.

    But the point I’m trying to make that I didn’t know at that time librewolf would have settings turned on that could break some websites.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.

    We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.

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