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Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It might be easier to soften Librewolf than harden Firefox, but fair point.

If you're a relatively normal user and you still want to use LibreWolf, I would recommend:

  • disable fingerprinting
  • not clearing history on exit

Most of this is easy to find, especially thanks to the LibreWolf menu

[–] eli@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah it's all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don't want.

I don't get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being "too hard". Like it's 1 minute clicking through menus and you're done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago (2 children)

It broke youtube for me yesterday and mind you I’m a web developer and I didn’t know what broke it exactly to turn it on/off.

It fixed it self today though.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 21 minutes ago

That was almost certainly YouTube breaking itself. They do a lot of public A-B testing without notifying the user of anything, even if it could break functionality.

The chances of Librewolf breaking, and updating in 24 hours is basically zero. Especially if you're on Windows since it doesn't update itself, you have to choose to install the separate updater application when you install Librewolf, otherwise it just doesn't update.

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/librewolf-winupdater

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

How often do you update LibreWolf?

LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.

It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.

[–] eli@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.

We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

For us, sure. For the average Joe who doesn't know about the side effects of fingerprinting, not so much.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe, but if you want Librewolf but less extreme, that's what Waterfox is for. May as well just install that and avoid the 5 minute search. And this is coming from a long time Librewolf user.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

I just enable canvas on sites that need it.

Thats the only part of RFP that I find problematic.