Re:LibreWolf – custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy...
by lproven on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:30PM
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I use Waterfox daily and have evaluated LibreWolf.
My use case: I mainly run the Unity desktop on Linux, both on traditional Ubuntu and on the Ubuntu Unity newly-official remix. On other distros, I use Xfce and I am trying to make a macOS-like layout via the Docklike Taskbar and AppMenu panel plugins.
Waterfox works with external global menus, like Firefox used to in the pre-Quantum era when Ubuntu used Unity itself.
LibreWolf does not.
So, I removed LibreWolf.
I don't care much about the telemetry stuff. Waterfox survived the Foxstuck outage fine and unaffected:
I adopted Waterfox because I made extensive use of XUL extensions and Mozilla disabled them in Quantum. They still worked in Waterfox, for years, so I stayed.
Waterfox seems to work harder for its users. Mozilla doesn't care.
Waterfox: I came for the extensions, but I stay for the UI improvements and greater reliability.
My use case: I mainly run the Unity desktop on Linux, both on traditional Ubuntu and on the Ubuntu Unity newly-official remix. On other distros, I use Xfce and I am trying to make a macOS-like layout via the Docklike Taskbar and AppMenu panel plugins.
Waterfox works with external global menus, like Firefox used to in the pre-Quantum era when Ubuntu used Unity itself.
LibreWolf does not.
So, I removed LibreWolf.
I don't care much about the telemetry stuff. Waterfox survived the Foxstuck outage fine and unaffected:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/18/foxstuck_firefox_brow...
That's a win.
I adopted Waterfox because I made extensive use of XUL extensions and Mozilla disabled them in Quantum. They still worked in Waterfox, for years, so I stayed.
Waterfox seems to work harder for its users. Mozilla doesn't care.
Waterfox: I came for the extensions, but I stay for the UI improvements and greater reliability.