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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, so there's that. Otherwise, it's just a hardened Firefox fork, and as such has the same catalogue of addons

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Awesome. Makes me wonder if there's still a reason to use Firefox over Librewolf.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I would never recommend any of these offshoots over stock. You can literally set it up the same exact way if you want, but still get same day security patches and updates.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Only reasons if heard is faster updates if you use base Firefox (w/ arkenfix user.js). Also the styling (brand icons and such) for librewolf are detectable. Mullvad is better than librewolf for antfingerprinting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I switched to it a couple weeks ago from FF/arc. No issues so far, and Iโ€™m pretty happy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I assume Sync doesn't work for history and bookmarks if its not using the FF servers.