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Luckily, there’s a solution…

It does indeed look superior. But getting the 2nd most important software on my PC from a group of randos with not even full names and God knows what level of opsec is just too scary even for me.

I've been toying with the idea of setting up a build enviroment for LibreWolf myself but that would still require auditing the patches and their changes as they come in every day.

Do you mean they keep patching stuff? What's the problem with tracking their patches a bit more slowly?

Eh. It might be fine until it isn't. One build system breakage and you are looking at an afternoon of fiddling if you are like me. (not much experience in C++ and it's tooling)

> from a group of randos with not even full names

Somehow I'd trust a group of randos more than most corporations

For most things, me too. I have no qualms about running a keygen for example. It doesn't get updated, doesn't reach out to the internet, and has a tiny set of functionality.

But a browser is none of these. If one of the devs gets their machine hacked, a trojanized build can reach you in mere seconds if you are unlucky enough to start your browser shortly after the build pipeline gets infected.

Me too... and this illustrates the sad state of the internet in 2023. Let's keep hope that things improve somehow in the future!

the librewolf maintainers are trustworthy - i know user fxbrit, the librewolf macos maintainer, is also, if i'm not mistaken, the macos maintainer of mullvad browser, the browser collaboration between mullvad vpn and tor

further reading, for anyone looking for an alt browser/config: arkenfox (af) v librewolf (lw) v mullvad browser (mb) from the af owner, mb maintainer, and lw, ff, & tor contributor: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...

I would switch to Librewolf but I can't find it on iOS. I like that Firefox is able sync with my other devices.

Does it support Firefox accounts? It's too useful to not have

Yes, you can enable the feature from the settings.

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