Upstream URL
https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/source
Upstream Release Link
https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/source/releases/tag/155.0-1
License
MPL-2.0
Brief Description
(copy pasting the software's usual description)
This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
Why Should This Be Included?
In the realm of the many Firefox forks, LibreWolf is among the most popular (I'd say it's in the top 3 ?) and is security and privacy-driven. It's very reliable, simple to use granted you have already used Firefox in the past, and it has saner defaults (in my opinion) that Mozilla's browser.
On a personal note, I've been using LibreWolf for 1-2 years daily now, and it has always worked flawlessly. I feel like their approach is no bullshit and it's my favourite Firefox fork out there (duh).
Policy Confirmation
Are You Willing to Help Package This?
Additional Information (Optional)
Even though a flatpak exists, the Librewolf website states that
Flatpak apps run sandboxed from the system via bubblewrap, which adds a layer of protection. But this prevents the browser from using its usual sandbox for process isolation.
Processes are still isolated through nested seccomp filters.
Flatpak supports process isolation via flatpak-spawn, which zypak and the unofficial Chromium Flatpak use. This would cause a big increase in memory use in Firefox/Librewolf though, so it is not a viable solution.
What is more, they declare elsewhere (for instance in this reddit post) that the "flatpak version actually has worse snadboxing than the native variant, since [the Librewolf team] need to disable various sandboxing mechanisms just to get it running in Flatpak at all."
Additionally, though it won't prevent any AI code from Mozilla to stay in the codebase, the Librewolf team stated a no-LLM policy for their addition to Firefox, which is on par with yours, so it's always nice to have akin software in the repos 😄
EDIT: typo
Upstream URL
https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/source
Upstream Release Link
https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/source/releases/tag/155.0-1
License
MPL-2.0
Brief Description
(copy pasting the software's usual description)
This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
Why Should This Be Included?
In the realm of the many Firefox forks, LibreWolf is among the most popular (I'd say it's in the top 3 ?) and is security and privacy-driven. It's very reliable, simple to use granted you have already used Firefox in the past, and it has saner defaults (in my opinion) that Mozilla's browser.
On a personal note, I've been using LibreWolf for 1-2 years daily now, and it has always worked flawlessly. I feel like their approach is no bullshit and it's my favourite Firefox fork out there (duh).
Policy Confirmation
Are You Willing to Help Package This?
Additional Information (Optional)
Even though a flatpak exists, the Librewolf website states that
What is more, they declare elsewhere (for instance in this reddit post) that the "flatpak version actually has worse snadboxing than the native variant, since [the Librewolf team] need to disable various sandboxing mechanisms just to get it running in Flatpak at all."
Additionally, though it won't prevent any AI code from Mozilla to stay in the codebase, the Librewolf team stated a no-LLM policy for their addition to Firefox, which is on par with yours, so it's always nice to have akin software in the repos 😄
EDIT: typo