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Firefox my beloved.
Librewolf, my beloved.
This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good?
Librewolf is a fork of firefox that removes bloat and telemetry. You can "harden" firefox to do the same thing, but librewolf comes out of the box hardened.
By the way, If you're on win7 and don't want to upgrade, Linux Mint might be a good alternative. It looks and feels similar but isn't a security risk to connect to the internet.
https://librewolf.net/
A summary from its site and known technical details:
As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do.
Looks like it should run on Windows.
Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024.
what do you see?
i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user.
You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet.
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You're overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge "stan" for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox's grave and actively avoid it everywhere... However. If I'm wrong, there will be a Next Thing...
At least link the full article and not just the headline... smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox's CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html
Not entirely true.
Yeah I'm using Fennec, which doesn't have that. But as long as it's a flick of a switch to disable, I don't really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3.
Besides the fact that Mozilla sucks, Firefox is an amazing piece of software. It's PITA that it's about to be enshittified.
Anyone else been having issues of not being able to load YouTube videos past the first few seconds on Firefox using ublock? I couldn't find any recent information online. I don't know if this is part of the war on ad blockers, or unrelated.
Yeah, yesterday. I just kept refreshing. FF + unlock + not signed in, seems to trigger it
I watched several videos today on Firefox with ublock origin and no issues. Haven't run into issues with ads yet.