That said, it’s still a better choice than most other browsers including ones that use even more insecure engines like QtWebEngine ( which uses an extremely old version of Chromium), WebKit (no site isolation), Goanna, and NetSurf’s engine. Firefox is still behind Chromium in exploit mitigations and it’s sandboxing and site isolation is less mature than Chromium’s. If you have 1-2h of your time you can learn how to hard it either by following a YouTube video or the Arkenfox/user.js README. I strong urge anyone to ditch Chromium-based browsers and adopt Firefox/Tor Browser. I highly disagree! Firefox is one of the best (if not the best) browsers for you to use right now. In general, I think most people should avoid Firefox entirely and use a browser based on Chromium (Edge for Windows, Chrome or Brave for other operating systems).

Like bayesian said, LibreWolf hasn’t been around as long as Firefox and development for LibreWolf did come to a halt for a while a few years back. Firefox users can just use Arkenfox to harden the browser, but most users will be fine using the recommended settings in about:preferences and leaving about:config alone. While Chromium forks like Vanadium and Mulch also lag behind a day or two each release, it is not as easy to apply those security patches onto vanilla Chromium as you’d have to compile the browser yourself, so it’s worth the trade. This means users won’t receive security patches as quickly as Firefox users. Second, because LibreWolf is a community fork of Firefox developed by a small team, it will always be behind Firefox in updates by a few days. I don’t believe LibreWolf improves Firefox security but actually worsens it because they install uBlock Origin by default, which significantly increases attack surface and uses Manifest V2 which is being deprecated as it’s a huge security risk, and they disable Google Safebrowsing which is a necessary security feature to protect users from malicious URLs and Mozilla’s implementation is privacy-respecting. Firefox users can disable telemetry in the settings and in about:config. Thank you for any advice.I’m against using LibreWolf for several reasons.įirst off, LibreWolf does not add anything new from Firefox. Can I delete all of these files? Or do they need to remain inside the LibreWolf tar folder in order for the application to operate correctly? As I said in the beginning, this is my first TAR file installation so I am not clear on how exactly a TAR file gets installed into Linux Mint. Lastly, in the screen capture and path below I have all of the LibreWolf files that were extracted from the TAR file I am not clear what to do with all these files after application installation. And what is the correct way to install the LibreWolf TAR file so I get no errors.? I hope somebody can tell me why I got these errors. The strange thing is the LibreWolf browser automatically launched and it seems to be working correctly despite the errors I got. JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/PromiseWorker.jsm, line 106: Error: Could not get children of file(/home/mintlnx/.librewolf/fault-release/thumbnails) because it does not exist librewolfĬonsole.warn: SearchSettings: 'get: No settings file exists, new profile?' (new NotFoundError('Could not open the file at /home/mintlnx/.librewolf/fault-release/4', (void 0))) ($HOME is /home/mintlnx which is owned by tar$. Running as root in a regular user's session is not supported. Code: Select all tar$ tar$ tar -xf tar$ sudo.

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