- cross-posted to:
- opensource@programming.dev
- opensource@lemmy.ml
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- opensource@programming.dev
- opensource@lemmy.ml
- privacy@programming.dev
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/28583067
LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don’t like generative AI.
Here is the statement posted on Mastodon:
As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick “official” toot to then pin: we haven’t and won’t support “generative AI” related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it “slipped through”. As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.
LibreWolf default settings are kind of annoying for someone who lives alone and no one else has physical access to their desktop. I don’t need to be logged out of everything and have my history wiped every time.
I finally tried LibreWolf today and gave up after about an hour of getting annoyed that my less-secure preferences wouldn’t stick and stay. I don’t know, maybe I’m not the target audience, but was finally thinking of giving a Firefox fork a shot and it mostly just annoyed me because I am not necessarily looking for something so ultra secure that it’s deleting all the history and shit every time the browser closes. I feel like having cookies persist isn’t something I should have to allow on a site-by-site basis when I want to stay logged into like 30 different sites, including local sites on my LAN that I manage personally.
As far as I know, you need to uncheck ‘Delete cookies and site data when LibreWolf is closed’ or add the exceptions you need in ‘about:preferences#privacy’ to stay logged in
Yeah, it’s literally one button and cookies remain.
Personally I’ve left that setting on, but click the one in the address bar on every site that I want to retain cookies. There aren’t that many of those.
Also, turn on Firefox syncing and it’s just like using regular Firefox, but without the nonsense.
Hmm. I was one of those who was interested in LibreWolf for long time. Just recently I had to give it a pass for different reason (but for comfort reason as you). Good to read experiences that talk about the “issues” too. I guess LibreWolf could be used for everything that does not require logging in into a website; in example random websites and websearch and so on. But then, maintaining and using two different browsers would be super annoying (for me).
There is also Waterfox, which got some update recently, with version number 6.6.6! I will look into this and how it compares to LibreWolf.
It’s not an issue, it’s an intended feature that you can literally disable with one click in the settings
I’ve used Librewolf for my main browser more than a year now and have had no problems with any logins or staying logged in. Strange.
I had similar sentiments when I first tried LibreWolf. I figured some of them out, and lived with others.
But I eventually went the Betterfox route. But, I also like the Mull Browser. It’s hardened, but a bit more lax (and livable) than LibreWolf