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Librewolf Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2otiFy4ADI

I think librewolf is my new favorite web browser ! 😀

Its a fork of firefox with privacy and security settings enabled by default. It ships with ublock origin for blocking ads/trackers. Also, It don't even have search engines like google, yahoo etc. as an option (BTW, I recommend you use searx). They also try to be fast with security updates, so they'll update their browser as soon as firefox releases a new version.
in reply to Rokosun

And yes, they also changed settings in the about:config page to harden firefox to its core.

@privacytools have made a list of settings you can change there to enhance your privacy & security - https://privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config

Actually, I checked every setting on that list and found that librewolf had already configured most of it by default.
in reply to Rokosun

So, I made an issue on their gitlab repo about the few settings they missed - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/49

Within a few hours the maintainer responded, explaining each setting, why they chose that, what settings they are planning to change, etc.

( I recommend someone at @privacytools take a look at this issue, it may interest you. )

This is the most important reason to choose librewolf, because its community maintained. We cannot have the same level of trust & engagement with a for-profit company.
in reply to Rokosun

We are thinking to make it default in TROMjaro ;) - even tho our Firefox version that we ship with TROMjaro is already customized heavily to be very privacy oriented and kill most of the online trades ;)
in reply to Rokosun

Is it possible to change the default language (English) of Librewolf?
in reply to kettcar64

You might take a look at this gitlab issue - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/linux/-/issues/145

I think this happened as a side effect of all the privacy tweaks they did. Basically, you'll have to change a bunch of settings in the about:config page to get it working.

This isn't the cleanest solution, I hope they fix these issues and improve their documentation in the future.
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Rokosun
I do see an "import bookmarks" button, but I don't think there's firefox sync support. I don't use sync personally, so I haven't looked into it.

I found an issue on their git repo about this - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/issues/11

Also, I recommend you take a look at this project - https://www.xbrowsersync.org/