Librewolf Review

In this video I review Librewolf, a well maintained firefox fork with excellent privacy settings
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[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

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

[@b3ans4eva]

How private is uBlock?

[@mkilo9770]

It’s open source.

[@bosschad8273]

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

[@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...

[@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

[@archafromdmc1913]

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.

[@LuneirastraAlunirev]

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

[@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.).

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@pippipylup8106]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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. :)

[@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,

[@LuneirastraAlunirev]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@blocare5544]

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

[@lucywucyyy]

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

[@yrnhhngr]

librewolf is better than the old days

[@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.

[@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

[@ChaunceyGardener]

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

[@Lolo5]

Ironic

[@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.

[@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

[@rafnavi4500]

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

[@mathematicalninja2756]

@@tripplefives1402 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.

[@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]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@jerrymartin7019]

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

[@ZGFyZG8g]

love your channel, teaches me many new things

[@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.

[@notuxnobux]

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

[@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.

[@zyansheep]

Early, but not first...

[@wasted5742]

Thats deep😶

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@wasted5742 uP

[@VariusSep]

I enjoyed your review thank you!

[@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

[@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.

[@boumex8842]

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

[@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.

[@danielmadstv]

Looks cool! Thanks for he vid. Which browser do you personally use and which do you recommend for someone who wants the most hardened daily driver browser?

[@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.

[@nonholographic]

I'm glad vegan gains found a new hobby

[@c-weed28]

why pretend to be 32 bit when majority of internet users are 64-bit? That's stupid cause it just makes you stand out more

[@sayochikun3288]

perhaps the reason is to force attackers to work with 32bit related only

[@4cps777]

I think it changes the spoofed values. At least normal Firefox does that if you have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled.

[@elosant2061]

@tingc-o a In a lot of cases using a user agent spoofer opens you up to being more easily fingerprinted

[@gustavomariz7769]

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

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

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

[@diegomarquez3293]

That thumbnail though really cracked me up!

[@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.

[@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.

[@perpetualcollapse]

I’ll stick to using Firefox for now since I already did a lot of changes to settings in about config, I already have extensions like ublock, and I have Searx as my default browser while removing search engines like Google from shortcuts. Maybe I’ll switch in the future though.

[@sugaryhull9688]

Nice, but I'll stick with Debian's version of Firefox ESR (quicker security updates and better integration)

[@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!

[@FallenAngelZero00]

I like trying this stuff out thanks for the info.

[@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

[@ChristianBMundy]

I look forward to it's windows release.

[@cloakofshadow1]

@@SowTag 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.

[@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

[@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

[@geraltofrivia__w.w.7513]

@Mental Outlaw thanks for this great video and going over the settings. Any suggestions for a similar browser for IOS ? thanks again and I subbed

[@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

[@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.

[@imbe.]

Ill give this one a shot. Very informative.

[@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.

[@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

[@princemjmc]

That Thumbnail's Cute, Fantastic Job Dude XD

[@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.

[@fellzer]

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

[@gmt1]

I only use Pocket to get around paywalled news, but reader mode can sometimes do that too.

[@christopherlewis1948]

I do not run it on my DD (Arch), but I also don't run Firefox on that machine. The UI isn't my favorite, and honestly their recent moves towards being thought police make me even more unlikely to use it. I do have the Appimage of Librewolf with SearX set as the search engine on my family's community computer running Pop!_OS. That limits the damage for a family computer more than the others, IMO. I do have to say that I like it and am have thought about switching to the AUR build. The fact that it is based on a browser [developed my a company that I philosophically abhor] that would still be dependent for source gives me enough pause to stand pat.

[@cuty5372]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@mulmeyun]

some websites break with it but not nearly as much as icecat so it is a huge win

[@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 :-)

[@jerf5038]

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

[@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 🤟

[@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?

[@TheWalkingPotato1]

I would try it, but i prefer to keep tor as my main browser

[@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

[@ThomasNoname]

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.

[@JC101Zero]

ty for the video, kinda got fed up with chrome so

[@ariloguecom]

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

[@Prophet6000]

I'm gonna have to use that.

[@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745]

Will this setup still work with opendns? What setup do you recommend for a parent to setup for a child?

[@kr3xohd]

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

[@CommissionerLawWonder86]

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.

[@sethsrc792]

I love your thumbnails

[@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

[@fcolecumberri]

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

[@megaoyi1Wins]

So if you are on Gentoo you can't compile it so you get LTO optimizations?

[@doughnut_panda]

I didn't know this one. Hope it will be integrated on ubuntu repos or ppa.

[@PrashantKg1996]

Will have to wait for windows package

[@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 :)

[@ekksoku]

Better privacy focus than firefox, and my firefox userChrome.css makes it look just how I like. 10/10.

[@thefirehawk1495]

If any more privacy oriented browser gets as full featured as Brave I might consider it.

[@johnmaletic898]

Firefox with an Arkenfox user.js, randomized containers, ublock and some additional about:config settings. As far as private and unbiased goes, you can't get better. Besides, privacy doesn't work that way. Let me put it this way. I have an android phone, as such I have a google account. I use google services ( gmail, keep etc..). I keep my google related stuff in one browser, in my case, Brave. Google already "knows" my stuff. However, if I want to avoid the silicon sissies passing things, I use certain sites either in that hardened firefox or as separate ssb's. Privacy in one single browser, unless you're onioning, is a myth. Brave isn't bad at all...if you know what to use it for. But overall, that hardened firefox is actually a tougher nut, for sure. It has a downside though. Unlike Librewolf, it has certain functions disabled and comes with stuff like anti canvas/letterboxing fingerprinting for example which looks a bit weird at first. So, in the end, it depends what your priorities are.

[@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.

[@isaacramirez3729]

It's been an hour since this was uploaded, has it updated yet?

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

I really don't care about its fingerprinting "protection". All a website has to do is save a cookie and it will know it's you no matter how much your IP or fingerprint changes.

[@hgcsm]

fkn use cookie autodelete

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

Yep or start a private window to make a fresh, temporary session which deletes its cookies afterwards.

[@notuxnobux]

librewolf clears cookies by default when you close the browser

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

@@notuxnobux That's great! I use Brave, and for those curious it has the same feature under "Clear browsing data", under the "On Exit" tab. Then you just tell it to clear cookies on exit. :) Very important if you wanna beat fingerprinting because all websites and tracking companies use cookies in addition to fingerprints. Brave also has anti-fingerprinting and generates new fingerprint hardware details whenever you clear site data, or when you start a new private session.

[@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

[@drezzylol]

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

[@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]

@@tripplefives1402 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

[@Corteum]

Why does it still often use port 80 for connections, though? Is that pose any kind of security risk?