Librewolf Review

[@maestreiluminati87]

fun fact; if you trace Librewolf's logo, you can see it kinda resembles a wolf howling, this is a nod at the fact that the browser has "wolf" in the name.

[@Remls]

Damn, wild.

[@imprincesswolfy2565]

Thank you captain obvious

[@SANtyJAV]

@@imprincesswolfy2565 it's a meme format

[@william3958]

incredible, i was wondering

[@ciriakk.]

i though i was the only one who noticed this, such a nice touch...

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

You know it's a good browser when it includes Ublock Origin

[@b3ans4eva]

How private is uBlock?

[@mkilo9770]

It’s open source.

[@UnobtainableSilence]

Absolutely, pay no attention to the counter signalers.

[@zodjenkins2595]

opinions on umatrix??

[@zekiz774]

@@zodjenkins2595 it's from the same developer.

[@Calajese]

Wolves would win on a fight against foxes so that seems like a good reason to migrate for me

[@wfwf910]

so many furry browsers

[@ranfonaforanafo1601]

food chain

[@Calajese]

@@wfwf910 Funny enough the browser that's made by a furry is named after the moon

[@hhhyyy4375]

A lion would kill both.

[@Calajese]

@@hhhyyy4375 he's too busy shilling

[@videogamesarecool9280]

the reason settings are locked isn't to prevent curious users from changing things, but to prevent extension from changing things. I could be wrong, not a expert, but I do remember reading that somewhere

[@elpsykongr00]

well, that's a respectable reason Don't really like programs telling me what to do

[@archafromdmc]

Nah man i believe u don't worry

[@videogamesarecool9280]

you can also change the locked settings yourself by editing a conf file (the librewolf documentation tells you how), but thats not as user friendly as just editing about:config

[@warhawk_yt]

Yeah it’s a good way to handle it because browser extensions can have access and can modify settings so it’s a good way to prevent the privacy settings from getting overwritten or reset.

[@Afshned_Lietheria]

@@videogamesarecool9280 average linux user trying to configure the system to work with their specs

[@Calajese]

It doesn't need to have "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses" because WebRTC is disabled by default

[@techtiger2558]

No, no it isn't, not on Firefox anyway

[@Calajese]

@@techtiger2558 I'm talking about Librewolf bud

[@waldotheranger3987]

@@Calajese Yeah lol I thought that went without saying.

[@EricLopushansky]

I don't think they configured the add-on at all before shipping either. Probably because it generates the config on your machine rather than on install.

[@piekay7285]

SzymeX As far as I understand it your public IP will get treated like a local IP when using a VPN

[@first-thoughtgiver-of-will2456]

The Internet 1995: lets be more connected and share things freely with each other to make the world a better place! The Internet 2021:

[@123Dargor]

With share I think they meant things you want to share.

[@sa-k]

@@123Dargor yeah, not sharing my address with everyone

[@mr2octavio]

Thanks capitalism!

[@victornecromancer]

@@mr2octavio thanks corporations*

[@rockytom5889]

@@mr2octavio *Thanks old politicians.

[@samuelgunter]

I thought LibreWolf would be a libre version of WolframAlpha

[@can2835]

how i wish that were true

[@frytkiniesasmaczne]

just use a cracked android app for step by step

[@RERM001]

I really need that smh

[@ukaszdrukaa8326]

sympy?

[@Alche_mist]

@@ukaszdrukaa8326 Sage? That's basically a mathematical system based on sympy + other python tools (NumPy, SciPy etc.).

[@Fl4sHNoX]

"Based on FireFox"... what a missed opportunity of calling it WaterWolf smh...

[@rexhent2206]

probably bc its sounds to close to waterfox

[@trigunmishra4721]

@Run updog

[@Dantakurai]

@@trigunmishra4721 what's updawg?

[@studiosnch]

someone called me?

[@goodperson7427]

@@studiosnch bruh, you play csgo right?

[@pippipylup8106]

god, you just had to upload this right when I was looking for a video to test your firefox settings on

[@webbonyoutube]

I've been using Librewolf for well over a year now, I'm happy to see it blowing up.

[@tuxedopig7940]

Unrelated, nice profile pic, where from?

[@webbonyoutube]

@@tuxedopig7940 I made it

[@yrnhhngr]

me too. librewolf + multi account containers is the greatest thing in privacy the internet has ever seen.

[@FranLMSP]

my firendship ended with Firefucks, now Librewolf is my best friend

[@watema3381]

could you provide info as to why?

[@tffurry2862]

@@watema3381 you can click the play button above.

[@ShadoFXPerino]

Imagine being Firefox and spending millions of man-hours across almost multiple decades, begrudgingly selling away pieces of its soul to Google just to stay afloat financially. Then some dipshit who can't even build a proper windows distro steals your codebase and slaps on a few extensions, and suddenly they're the FOSS darling that you burned yourself out to become.

[@dante600]

@@ShadoFXPerino uhhh... I'm skeptical of your knowledge about open-source, forks and what they are. There's no such thing as "stealing" an open codebase. It's open, it's free (licensed under the Mozilla Public License). If Mozilla wanted to merge Librewolf into Firefox they could, they just don't want to. Also, it's not a matter of "slapping on a few extensions" when it's basically just removing the hassle to add them in the first place. And it's not based on default Firefox, but rather on Librefox. (not in active development anymore). Also, windows distros don't exist.

[@ShadoFXPerino]

@@dante600 The word "distro" doesn't exclusively mean a Linux OS distro, it's short for "distributable", which in windows-world takes the form of a .MSI or .EXE file. Also, from their website "LibreWolf is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability." Nothing regarding Librefox. It is basically nothing more than a script that reads from Firefox, applies a buggy diff that breaks windows support, and rebuilds. "Stealing" or not, this shameless low-effort cucking of Mozilla's goodwill means sooner or later Mozilla will go bankrupt, stop putting out security updates, and Chrome will become the only viable web browser.

[@ukaszMarianszki]

A side by side comparasion of all the privacy oriented browsers like Brave and the rest would be nice

[@alouisschafer7212]

would be long because there are a lot of forks out there

[@magnusanderson6681]

@@alouisschafer7212 *cough* dissenter

[@alouisschafer7212]

@Pudgems it is certainly a well maintained chromium based browser that is milestones ahead of Chrome or Edge and these two are literally Spyware. In a tier list these two would be in the "complete dogshit" tier and brave would be in the "better but not the best" tier. The purest Browser would be Chromium itself.

[@thefirehawk1495]

@Pudgems It is. Maybe it's not the end all be all of privacy but it is a privacy browser that's more private than most browsers out there.

[@williamfrost8081]

@Some Kind Of Master What's Brave's Crypto and why is it sus?

[@Moire9]

I would install it, however I really love the dev tools in Firefox developer edition. Hopefully they are able to apply the patches to that version as well, since it isn't that different,

[@Afshned_Lietheria]

you can actually put the developer mode if you press alt on any tab and go to the file section in which you can restart into the developer edition

[@gant6962]

Just switched as soon as I got halfway through the video. Coming back to finish the video and can say that my setup proccess was enough for me to asure that this will be my new daily driver. Thanks for helping me yet again Mental Outlaw. :)

[@realGBx64]

well if it emulates a system that barely anyone uses anymore, that makes you kinda fingerprintable though.

[@TheRanguna]

It doesn't because the next time you reload, you'll be someone else.

[@TheRedCap]

I am so, SO incredibly happy this browser exists. I refuse to use Brave purely because it's based on Chromium. I don't want a single line of Google code in my browser, I don't trust them. I've been praying to find a Brave equivalent based on Firefox for a while now, and I'm so happy it exists.

[@emenesu]

Jesus christ the paranoia

[@NoelJasik]

Fair enough but youtube is owned by google and you loaded that code into your browser

[@yrnhhngr]

@@NoelJasik on a temporary profile that vanishes in 2 minutes, cause firefox base has the multi account containers thing. and this is vanilla firefox mind you. l

[@yrnhhngr]

me too. firefox is already great with the containers thing, but it bothered me to no end that it came with google """safe""" search on by default and it needed heavily configuring to make it safe. librewolf just knocked it out of the part. with the containers thing its just incredile.

[@ChaunceyGardener]

KZbin recommended me this video. They know I enjoy privacy.

[@Lolo5]

Ironic

[@rafnavi4500]

Literally just had a nightmare this morning that I needed a new browser because I was being tracked

[@mathematicalninja2756]

@Richard Vaughn chrome incognito best (sarcasm)

[@tacokoneko]

allow me to introduce you to your new best friend, the *x86 security coprocessor* (branded: *Intel Management Engine* , *AMD Platform Security Processor / Secure Technology* ). Good luck, have fun escaping ;) The cheapest ways are *old x86* (old Intel or AMD CPU, preferably alongside a motherboard either supported by free software firmware or containing a true dated ROM BIOS chip to guarantee no tampering, best if obtained from trusted individuals with a historical chain of trusted ownership. Key dates: 2001, PATRIOT act enters effect in the USA, _officially_ legalizing state wiretapping within the de facto leader of the fourteen eyes, 1998, DMCA enters effect in USA, _officially_ mandating intellectual property regulation) and *Open Source Hardware* (cheapest are TI CPUs). Going the *old x86* route _requires_ *subjecting yourself to the hardware Spectre vulnerability discovered in 2018* - or loading non-free microcode into your CPU, which connects you to the botnet. This means, to retain security, *NO* non-free JavaScript (which you shouldn't be using anyway, though to write your comment and read this one you are currently using, so you won't be using this system for any comment walls on the official youtube comments this way ).

[@joey199412]

Stop hoarding CP and maybe your nightmares will stop.

[@alouisschafer7212]

shit just got real... I sleep well with Brave.

[@wonderfulperson1056]

You are.

[@dxrbkn5145]

After trying Waterfox Pale moon Ungoogle chromium This one is the best by far

[@hamedbenjohnson]

Did you try brave? spoiler: imo it is worse than UGC

[@yrnhhngr]

yes. i was a ungoogled chromium person for a long time, then i met the containers thing in vanilla firefox. jesus, that alone is reason enough to ditch chromium forever. but firefox still needed heavily configuring and stuff that bugged me immensely, like the google "safe search" thing for instance. why oh whyyyyyyyyyy would they build that in and leave it on by default??? then i stumbled into librewolf and it was like yes... this is it... containers + all those privacy features? wow. theres nothing even close to this option.

[@abbasmaheryar1111]

Wish I saw this first before I started compiling icecat. It's still going now...

[@sirrobertwalpole1754]

Is it still compiling?

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

@@sirrobertwalpole1754 until the heat death of the universe

[@lordvalen8133]

@Glizzster Almost certainly.

[@a1337turtle]

Main gripe that I have is that forcing background colors using the preferences menu is broken. Other than that, it's a great browser and I've been using it for a week or so. thanks man.

[@Defal_]

Good morning, evening or night yall

[@LoganT547]

Me in the afternoon: :/

[@linxuser897]

Morning

[@oldaccount7463]

gn bud

[@Defal_]

@@LoganT547 thanks, I'll add it on the next video!

[@smorrow]

You're the birth-day, you're the birth-day, you're the birth-day boy or girl

[@TheStarStreak]

Wikipedia is in there because then you can explicitly search in it. It is not meant to be used as a default but a per search choice.

[@wakeupNeo_]

so basically it does everything that Brave is claiming to do

[@feefre]

*it actually does

[@catpetterchampion]

@@feefre brave doesn't?

[@NicoDiamante]

But it is maybe lighter, but better privacy (to be made with Firefox) no Brave Awards and things, have a lighter Adblock, is Firefox (not chrome), the security is a bit worse than Onion Browser (but the browser is not made for primary uses)

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I just want to point-out that Brave is still a great option for a lot of people. Namely, people who are married to Chrome. Convincing someone to jump to Firefox from Chrome, that's hard. Jumping to Brave, where all your extensions work, sites will work the same, etc, that's much easier.

[@someonehere4380]

@@liesdamnlies3372 no if they want to have chrome stuff then use ungoogled chromium

[@terminalvelocity4858]

Used LibreWolf, no complaints. However, it makes more sense to just use Arkenfox config with Firefox, disable pocket in config, and use addons ublock, privacy badger, local cdn, and canvas blocker. Same privacy, no breakage or waiting for updates to latest versioning.

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

If Librewolf finally has the proper binary for Windows, I'll install it on every computer I have alongside Brave just for good measure.

[@ScreechingBagel]

1.why use brave when you have this 2.windows...

[@SurmenianSoldier]

@@ScreechingBagel gaming

[@gd2936]

@@ScreechingBagel gaming

[@MrlspPrt]

@@ScreechingBagel gaming (and I'm too lazy to have two OS when I switch between gamer mode and developer mode).

[@d544]

@@ScreechingBagel gayming

[@reeeeeee551]

librewolf is like "eww, is that your personal data? get that shit off me, it's disgusting". maybe the instalation process could be easier but it is not impossible to install for me

[@magnusanderson6681]

Appimage is stupid easy if you don't want to compile. If you do want to compile I still don't know a good way to do it tho

[@reeeeeee551]

@@magnusanderson6681 i will try the appimage. i should be as easy as installing rpcs3

[@magnusanderson6681]

@@reeeeeee551 Also check arch wiki for XDG base directory spec if you use the appimage. I just found out today that you can get those dang files out of ~ so I wrote up a guide on there and don't need/want to compile it anymore EDIT: plus the best feature of librewolf is that its like 1/3 - 1/2 the size of firefox

[@EricLopushansky]

User agent spoofing is actually potentially a security flaw. It's much more likely that you WON'T find that user agent in the wild and thus it's easier to fingerprint to you. I think 64-bit would probably be a smarter spoof.

[@TheRanguna]

That's a common misconception, if your fingerprint is based on your user agent, and your user agent is always changing, then your fingerprint is always changing. It doesn't give any more bits, because the bits are always changing.

[@CheesyCore]

​@@TheRangunai think theres a misconception about what makes a user fingerprint A fingerprint is a way for me to point at a user and say "this is strange and is a pattern" If I have a log of records of different user agents in different sites. All completely different and all not correlating to common browsing habits. That's a pattern. That's a red flag that tells me something is going on between them If this pattern will continue to occur on relevant sites to the investigation, i could point out and say - this is the same person A fingerprint doesn't mean i can connect the behaviour to a person, it means I can single out a behaviour out of the crowd To hide tour fingerprint you need to blend into the crowd. Not stand out with random variables

[@TheRanguna]

@@CheesyCore how can you single out a person from "different agents in different websites"? If you have no other data about this behaviour, they could just be different people. There is no pattern, there's just a bunch of logs with a bunch of different user agents and nothing to correlate them with. If you still think there's a pattern, then try to build a high level algorithm yourself, which accepts two arguments: the new logs and the history of all past logs, and it should return the existing logs the new log is related to. If the ever-changing user agent is the only thing in that log, there's no way you can correlate anything. It's not like having different agents is similar to wearing different clown suits in a crowd. It's like wearing different and completely normal cloths in a crowd, you could never guess it's the same person unless you see something that is not cloth related. I'm not saying to switch to a user agent from the 90s that no one uses (analogy to the clown cloths) . The user agents should be common enough (analogy to the normal cloths).

[@cewla3348]

@@CheesyCore see, now you have two users. they leave the same erratic trace, so you have no clue whether or not you have 2 normal users, one super user, or 20 very slow users.

[@FengLengshun]

That's really cool, the problem is that I extensively use the Synced Tabs function, and if there isn't a replacement for that then unfortunately it's a pass for me. I do use Crono as an extra sync tool, but that's not as reliable as Firefox's built in sync and send tabs features. Anyone has any advice for what can be used to easily replace sync? Edit: also for after reinstall while distro testing too, it would be a pain to manually export my extensions and settings.

[@antoninjacob2232]

I use Vivaldi, they embed an adblocker too now. I love it and will satisfy your needs for sync features, but it has some downsides. After 3 years of usage as my primary browser, I feel like it is a bit heavy. I'm not too much aware on the privacy world but I believe it is decent from what I've experienced.

[@hogstudio4819]

@@antoninjacob2232 Vivaldi is closed source so you won't get privacy concerned people to use it.

[@antoninjacob2232]

@@hogstudio4819 ah yes, i understand. I just downloaded Librewolf, took me 15 minutes to configure multiple pined tabs in isolated containers (I plan to use it as a second browser as a replacement for Franz with my many chat apps) buuuut everytime I close the browser, my tabs disappears :( Even with the "reset previous session" set

[@FengLengshun]

@@antoninjacob2232 I've tried it, and I would use it if Brave doesn't fit better for my usecase for a fallback Chromium browser. The extra functions are nice, but it's not enough for me - Opera has more and Edge has the legacy site compatibility while Brave is better in privacy (while being more usable than Ungoogled Chromium) if you turn of their BAT while Vivaldi is just kinda a middle ground between all that. Since I chose to prioritize privacy, I choose Brave for my fallback Chromium browser. That and when I first tried Vivaldi, their mobile sync function was broken. Meanwhile, from my research, Brave has a good sync system that seems to preserve your privacy as well so that goes a long way to make me choose it.

[@antoninjacob2232]

@@FengLengshun idk when you've tried the sync, but it runs well now. They had some troubles at launch however. I love the tab grouping functionality on Vivaldi as it drastically reduces the space needed for every tabs (I always open search links on a separate tab to keep the search page aside). Also the side panel with custom webpage (Opera has it too) is awesome for my use case. But hen I tried edge and firefox, they are so much more speedy at launch!

[@lucywucyyy]

i miss the old days of firefox :( i miss the old internet

[@yrnhhngr]

librewolf is better than the old days

[@MapleMilk]

Sweet, I have a new browser to recommend whenever that Windows build gets done I mean, you don't even have to install UBlock!

[@alouisschafer7212]

For now Brave is the best Browser I recommend. Gets the job done

[@alouisschafer7212]

@@ruakij6452 yeah that is a legitimate concern. But I found that chromium based Browsers are really fast even on low end computers. There is a chromium fork called ungoogled chromium. It claims to be the most barebones chromium browser out there with zero spyware.

[@alouisschafer7212]

Update: I dont recommend Brave anymore. Not stable enough on all Computers. Go for Ungoogled Chromium instead.

[@alouisschafer7212]

@ doesnt run stable enough on peoples machines. And its shady.

[@matthewgaming831]

Why tell me about this instead of talking about hardening Firefox.

[@techtiger2558]

What? Surf browser? Lol. If it's firefox you'll likely be able to just copy your user profile folder over...

[@xymaryai8283]

@@techtiger2558 does it have tab syncing with the firefox account tho?

[@iamlegion990]

Been using Firefox focus .. not perfect but reasonable for cell phone use..

[@jayzn1931]

@@xymaryai8283 That's probably not as secure of a feature as we should think.

[@lusian4758]

I’m on Windows so I’m just gonna ignore this completely

[@bikutoso]

I think i will start using this one. A bit annoyed that i can't change the browser language, though that's nothing compared to the annoyance of dealing with mozilla and their annoyances. Update: I think i'll actually wait until it's more available. Because dealing with mozilla is nothing compared to dealing with ibus compatibility.

[@zyansheep]

Early, but not first...

[@wasted5742]

Thats deep😶

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@wasted5742 uP

[@gondolaa]

Legit question: Isnt having an unique fingerprint the exact opposite of what we'd want? I thought it would be best to blend in so trackers wouldnt know my exact online habits, with a unique fingerprint they would always know that its me. I may have misunderstood something tho, anyways great video.

[@arnold-moger]

That's why you pick a commonplace user agent like Windows 10 with Edge or Chrome.

[@pessoaanonima6345]

@@arnold-moger Firefox on linux faking Chrome on Windows is easily identified. Chrome and firefox are different in their engine, so you'd have to use a chromium based browser.

[@somebodyoncetoldme2664]

There's an extension to spoof your fingerprint anywya

[@zehph]

I got some pretty good results with brave on cover your tracks, with strict settings the test returned as fully randomized

[@alouisschafer7212]

so brave does randomize every session? that explains why I show up as a 13 Core CPU with 1 gb of memory haha

[@cuty5372]

Why would I want to find a User Agent that is very unique? Couldn't that be used for Fingerprinting?

[@ALLHEART_]

Will Manjaro users have to wait for it to be configured specifically for their distro, or will the Arch installation work for them as well? Smooth brain question.

[@igorthelight]

Manjaro is 99% Arch so it will work just fine :-)

[@blocare5544]

Been waiting on your recommendation! Thank you! I think I'll have to use this once it comes to windows.

[@fellzer]

Would you say librewolf is based and redpilled enough to be a primary browser?

[@nonholographic]

I'm glad vegan gains found a new hobby

[@J43rv1]

First. And Librewolf is keyed asf

[@cool-person1161]

first

[@gplastic]

If people are gonna start seriously using that term imma kms

[@J43rv1]

@@gplastic dial 8

[@sufficient4834]

keyed and sneedpilled

[@ozmobozo]

What the fuck is keyed?

[@ITILII]

Great review, as always....but at 7:59 you pronounce Searx as Sir X....it's pronounced Search, the x is pronounced the Chinese way as CH 🤟

[@kr3xohd]

"Logins and passwords.." *clicks checkbox and it dissappears* "yeah you can" *clicks another one and it also makes itself unclickable* "change that stuff"

[@notuxnobux]

I tried librewolf recently and its much faster than brave at navigating pages (especially when going to the previous page)

[@fenn_fren]

It's a very neat browser. I hope there'll eventually be an Android version!

[@afacelessuser]

there is a browser based on firefox mobile called mull in f droid. it is kinda like librewolf.

[@basedrojas8231]

Iceraven

[@_virendrasingh]

7:22 Deceptive content and Dangerous software protection unchecked? Why do need that? For third party software! I can understand but what else content the 'deceptive' word contains?

[@でん-p5h]

¿?

[@didacusa3293]

That thumbnail though really cracked me up!

[@boumex8842]

Nice browser. Looks like Firefox has almost the same configuration. Good to know Firefox is pretty good.

[@fcolecumberri]

It's a shame Gentoo support is so outdated and if you go for the build (not the binary) it doesn't compile.

[@dannydogs4385]

Finally made my switch to it. Took a bit of set up because I had to manually move my bookmarks and then extract my passwords and use an offline password manager.

[@SpoodyTheSpider]

first time I'm here a few seconds ago Maybe i should use Linux again,I keep watching these

[@nootics]

Same

[@nlaijenejakajehuahhwhsdwhi8297]

install gentoo

[@SpoodyTheSpider]

@@nlaijenejakajehuahhwhsdwhi8297 don't have the time

[@kjullthedemon]

Switch to Linux, no one says you have to become a power user like MentalOutlaw or anything. Install Mint or Manjaro, or other user friendly distributions. Install Wine and Lutris if you play vidja games, and if you miss the aesthetic of Windows 10, just change the theme. Linux is for everyone.

[@videogamesarecool9280]

is librewolf a proper fork, or is it just different default config files like icecat and the now dead librefox?

[@prebenskill]

Is a proper fork, just with slight adjustments. They removed all and i repeat all calling home methods from mozilla, google or any other homebase. Firefox minus telemetry basicly. Code was reviewed and its a beaut.

[@videogamesarecool9280]

@@prebenskill so instead of just disabling the telemetry code like icecat it was full on removed? thats nice to hear

[@warhawk_yt]

@@videogamesarecool9280 if I am not mistaken it started out as a community alternative to the dead librefox project but went beyond that. It also closely follows the Firefox release schedule so you don’t have to wait too long to get the latest Firefox updates but I haven’t been able to figure out how long exactly it is.

[@prebenskill]

@@videogamesarecool9280 Yeah its refreshing, as @Warhawk said, its a little bit behind the offiicial release schedule of firefox. Which is fine in my honest opinion.

[@thearousedeunuch]

7:51 It's there for the sort of person that often uses Wikipedia. Think of it as a dictionary always being easily accessible and you'll understand why it's there.

[@ariloguecom]

Hi, can you do a video about comparison between Librewolf and Waterfox?

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

So it has a binary for Gentoo but not Ubuntu/Mint? That's hardcore.

[@twistyjoygaming422]

5:19 Nostalgia is a very powerful thing, for better or for worse. I remember when Firefox was it's own thing and not being supported by Google. It sucks those times are gone, but hey there's Linux and Librewolf now so I use those instead of Windows and firefox.

[@Gurj101]

About Https only mode in firefox. You can't turn it off with a button in address bar so its a little inconvenient especially when you are say opening a poorly built government website or some old legacy site in general. It becomes convenient to have just an addon switch to turn on and off the https only mode to open sites out of necessity.

[@ViddyOJames]

the adblock was off because adblock is enabled and disabled on a per page basis through that menu and it's not enabled by default on the new tab or other similar pages

[@j.d.4697]

With this browser, YT videos have the picture freeze for a few seconds every once in a while but sound keeps going. Disabling uBlock didn't fix it. Any suggestions?

[@Wkaelx]

Have you heard of the penguin church?

[@smeake]

Oh Mental, have you considered covering SwissCows. It’s a search engine based out of Switzerland, it also blocks lewd content by default. The other search engines can’t say that.

[@smeake]

@Big Poppin’ Jake Thanks for letting me know Jake, I’ll look it up :)

[@0hate9]

hey, one question about sending the do-not-track signal: isn't that basically just another piece of identifying information sites can use to track you? like, does it actually help?

[@midas2092]

I imagine that would reduce the amount of information with which to track you rather than eliminate it. Probably just helps by increasing ambiguity

[@0hate9]

@@midas2092 but wouldn't it *increase* the information with which to track you? the site gets whatever information it would otherwise have, plus the fact that you're sending the do-not-track signal. seems like just one more bit (literally) of information with which to track someone.

[@brokebothmearms9237]

Thanks for the recommendation. Had to build it for MacOS since there isn't a release. Also had to either run it through rossetta or codesign it, or you'd get a permission error.

[@mjdxp5688]

LibreWolf is pretty awesome, I wish there was a Windows version though. (I use Windows alongside Linux for college stuff)

[@richard343s]

You could use Waterfox on windows.

[@mjdxp5688]

@@richard343s It's owned by a company though

[@mjdxp5688]

@Richard Vaughn Again, I use it mainly for college work because my school uses software that's not on Linux. Sure, Windows is tracking me, but that doesn't mean I want another company like Google tracking me as well.

[@sourcream9749]

@@mjdxp5688 have you tried ameliorated?

[@Fantallana]

@smelly paws why are you making humanity worse

[@MatCo774]

Chrome was making my notebook crash and freeze in every 15 minutes of use, today I begun to use LibreWolf and it solved my problem

[@laharl2k]

Well you also have palemoon though i like having a cleaned fork of firefox. It began going south the moment mozilla began acepting google money, it never made sense to me that its competition would pay them to compete against chrome. Im sure it came with lots of conditions and thats why we are here

[@noideac]

Funnily enough I actually used 32 bit windows 8.1 briefly solely because I had an audio interface that crashed with any 64-bit Windows. I'm sure some business out there is using Windows 10 32-bit for that exact reason

[@Mr.ToadJanfu]

Almost guaranteed, say what you want about windows no other OS is as dedicated to a single pursuit as Windows is to Legacy support, sadly that makes it a much more vulnerable platform.

[@amnottabs]

I had to install Windows 10 x86 in an W8-era netbook a couple days ago, x64 had weird artifacting on screen after installing the video drivers so I had to sacrifice 1gb of ram to make it usable again

[@danieleccleston7928]

I switched from firefox to brave then I found libre wolf definitely going to make the switch. Brave is so weird I don't like it.

[@technomatic6285]

I did the same thing, switched to brave because Firefox apparently does a lot of weird stuff recently, I don't hate Brave but it's so goddamn awful, it takes up so much of my memory and running it on a low end system is almost a nightmare.. Switching to Waterfox or Librewolf now.

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

👏🙂 Wow. I'm definitely gonna download this asap.

[@princemj]

That Thumbnail's Cute, Fantastic Job Dude XD

[@gustavomariz7769]

I was just searching about librewolf and you uploaded about it lmao

[@OtesOtesOtes]

Good to know about. I've been avoiding your videos, but this one got my attention. Time to catch up on missed content I guess.

[@drezzylol]

Serious question. What is the 'g-hacks' you mentioned?

[@emperorpicard6474]

Since, I assume, most people do not send a "do not track" signal, wouldn't enabling it make you paradoxically more easily tracked?

[@igorthelight]

Good point

[@4crafters597]

So my consensus would be: Hardened Firefox (with ffprofile) and Addons (see below)> Librewolf> Brave I use UBlock Origin, UMatrix, Universal Bypass, WebRTC and NoScript, which is kinda overkill.

[@ChristianBMundy]

I look forward to it's windows release.

[@cloakofshadow1]

@@ThisIsMaddock no

[@ChristianBMundy]

@@ruakij6452 if I weren't a complete brainlet and played a ton of games that run best on windows I would make that switch ASAP. But I'm more than a bit dim in the headlights.

[@anonimuso]

How do you think this compares to Brave, which I have been using for a couple of years now since they say they are privacy focused.

[@LawWonderTV9]

And not to mention that you don't get the Ad Blockers are not allowed on KZbin message when you use it. So that's a plus for me.

[@studiosnch]

Weirldy when I installed LW, it used FF's default search engine options. Thankfully I just need the Duck and Wikipedia. Also do add EFF's plugins for more hardening.

[@hans.4112]

so is this browser better than brave for privacy?

[@RedVRCC]

Librewolf is supreme, it's even available on windows for those of us who can't use linux for various reasons.

[@yeagyeag]

I don't think they even have to build a deb package since there's a flatpak available. That's enough for me tbh

[@genericdude6551]

I just tried it. It didn't restore my tabs on a relaunch. Yes, the settings was checked for restoring previous tabs. Not good enough for me.

[@awesomedavid2012]

Idk man, the 8¢ a month from Brave is very hard to leave

[@someonehere4380]

so they are buying you?

[@m3nguele]

@@someonehere4380 yes, it can grant one or two more snacks a month, really

[@Si-yz8bt]

I've been using Librewolf for a month or so now, and it's by far better than PaleMoon, also been using Qwant browser, got to give those baguettes my data

[@Scrogan]

What do you mean Wikipedia isn’t a search engine? By using “w” as a keyword, you can type “w photon” in your URL bar and you’ll be sent to the Wikipedia page for the photon. It’s really damn handy. Set searches to other info sources you use often too, like the arch wiki, or stackexchange, or wherever.

[@jerf5038]

I’ve been needing a replacement for Firefox after what they’ve been doing as of recently

[@Spartacus69]

Yeah but does it have vim bindings?

[@GreyGhost9]

I enjoyed your review thank you!

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Awesome, but there's no flatpak or Fedora option. Correction: there isn't an option in the Gnome (flatpak) Gui repo. However, if the flatpak file is dowloaded, the Gui picks it up immediately and adds it. It's the first time I've seen that happen.

[@ZGFyZG8g]

love your channel, teaches me many new things

[@jayzn1931]

Rob Braxman has a video about that you make yourself more suspicious if you have more tracking blockers, just like you have really good Fingerprinting blocking here. What do you think about that? Will it not be more obvious that you don't want to be tracked (so you're actually tracked more aggressively) by obscuring so many features (like the OS)? Grts

[@jack_wo]

Waterfox vs Librewolf? My Waterfox has uBlock and a few other privacy plugins

[@urssaf343]

Member when Firefox was good ?

[@Corteum]

Also, uBlockOrigin doesn't have the option to disable WebRTC anymore. What are your recommendations for this?

[@SgtPiper]

A extension just for that

[@ALLHEART_]

So, in summary, Librewolf is essentially pre-hardened Firefox? Based and privacypilled.

[@jimmywilson8176]

You have no idea how much less bloated. Just the app file size of LW (at least on macOS) is almost half of FF.

[@ALLHEART_]

@@jimmywilson8176 Interesting...

[@imbe.]

Ill give this one a shot. Very informative.

[@jerrymartin7019]

I was wondering when you were going to cover this, it seems pretty neato.

[@Xalusc]

I see you recommend uBlock Origin a lot. What are your thoughts on AdNauseam?

[@WR3ND]

That's cool, but can I put tabs on the bottom and customize it like you used to be able to in Firefox and still can to some extent in Pale Moon?