Post #75956
2025-12-18 02:23 UTC
I’ve used both and while Waterfox is pretty good, Librewolf is superior. It’s more aggressive in its privacy settings by default, you can either tone that down or learn to work with it (I recommend the latter, which takes some effort and is a different way of doing things, treating privacy as something you have to actively opt-out of on a case by case basis, which will benefit you in the long run).
Unlike Waterfox, Librewolf has also never had a problem where it “accidentally” sold itself to an advertising company and then changed its mind, but even despite Waterfox’s strange and concerning escapades with System1, I still think Librewolf is simply better on its own merits, nevermind its moral purity.
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2025-12-18 03:03
Is there a way to have one installation of “locked down” librewolf for private browsing, and then a second one with compatibility settings for web-apps where you are logged in, etc? Coexisting on the same system?
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@BassTurd@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 03:38
The only reason I stopped using Librewolf is because it has to install from binaries on update and that took a nonsignificant amount of time on at least Arch. I didn’t love the extra overhead from the security, but I would do it if it didn’t mean 15 min updates seemingly every couple of days. Maybe I’m an anomaly and was doing something wrong, and I’d love to hear if others have something better, but I just try to adjust my behaviour accordingly.