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Librewolf: a modern browser based on Mozilla open source code. caveat 64 Bit only.
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ Home and gives info as well as lead to download sites.
Features
Latest Firefox — LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
Independent Build — LibreWolf uses a build independent of Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path.
As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
No phoning home — Embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed. In other words, minimal background connections by default.
User settings updates
Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
Multi-platform
Community-DrivenUblock origin is installed as default.
The project is very active, releases follow latest F Fox very closely.Has a set of respectable search engines i.e. low or no tracking.
Does not send every search term to google, firefox does.
Does not follow the deceipt of Mozilla in that settings made by user are not always
changed in config. This is a privacy and trust issue.is available for Bullseye only in appimage form so there are no automatic updates.
Watching the network while starting and using LibreWolf showed it to be very quiet.
Out of interest I wanted to take a look in the appimage. Nice is that it is a zipped archive,
just change from appimage to.zip and unpack, it will decompress in the containing directoryPackage contents, as expected are very similar to the firefox it is based on.
It has the pingsender extension, I renamed it to pigsbender. Ping is disabled in config.
In Browser features there are several hidden extensions. The only one which I found
bothering was screenshot, in Firefox that can be remotely controlled according to dev
notes, that includes headless mode for debugging !. Convincing, no so deleted.Firefox downloaded from mozilla and unpacked (it comes zipped) will usually start with a click
on the binary, usualy because mozilla has modified the start on occasion.choices:
Use as appimage, make executable, click and go, how to make a starter, described many times in the forum.Run uncompressed
Unpacked Librewolf has a start script
launch_librewolf.sh’ which I have only working when the wolf is in a directory in home called
Librewolf. After first start, for that I dragged the script title in to a shell window, the
next start is extremely fast, just a click on the script or a start icon that LibreWolf generates
needed. Nice. The start speed can be explained by no more need to unpack, no reporting engines and
ping machines active to slow down the machine.Sound may be an issue for some, depends on user setup.
I no longer use a browser for media, we have better tools in antiX.
Looks good, works well. Fairly lightweight, does not generate gigabytes of cache as chromium and chromium based browsers do.
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- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: Moved to Tips and Tricks
This is something I noticed several months ago; cannot remember exactly when, but I do recall very well that it happened even just from one day to another with same browser and version, no changes nor updates, on very same rig.
Main commercial/popular web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, perhaps Brave…) have no problems, I clarify; but many of the non popular ones (Seamonkey, Pale Moon, Waterfox… still haven’t tried all of them…) began having general heavy problems loading websites.
I first saw it several months ago, as already mentioned. I thought it’d be, with luck, something temporal. Already months later a comment here (last lines). And today still the same general problems, even worse.
I tried, in fact, searching the forums here in the date range from September 6 to 8 for the mentioned thread. Perhaps I lack experience in searching, but was unable to find something…Problems I’m talking about are, websites loading very slowly, in the best of cases; often not even correctly.
For example, Pale Moon now cannot load any Youtube page at all without at least one “Warning: unresponsive script” error. Reddit makes the browser freeze several -short- times before being able to load. Even Google search causes frequent random short freezes. The same with websites with multimedia content and several forums (hell, even browsing this forum began giving few short freezes at times!). And of course the issue with Gitlab -and Github as well- mentioned in link above.
In the worst cases websites just make web browser totally crash. An example, Discord (though depending which and how much content you’re trying to see…).
Seamonkey is the same general case, just seemingly in a lesser degree, at first. However, the longer one browses with Seamonkey, the more frequent freezes become, as well as the *consumed RAM*. Hell, it doesn’t even display Google search site correctly by default: you must add a custom useragent override for it.
As far as I have seen and can understand, the only ones free from this issue are websites with fewer or lighter contents, or perhaps made with not very recent tools or APIs.What would you think about all of this? A kind of “conspiracy” by websites to favor main popular competitors?
(Hope I’m just exaggerating…)Thanks.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: Moved to Tips and Tricks
- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Brian Masinick.
I was experimenting with Debian 11 (“bullseye”) as a 2nd OS, and it suffered yet another weird failure. This time, FireFox browser could only connect with a very few websites, and the rest couldn’t connect with the server. For example, Google & Facebook could connect, but StartPage.com & Weather.com could not. I’m DONE with Debian. v10.3 killed 3 old machines I owned. I had to throw them away. v11 has crashed repeatedly in 3 different installations into my recently acquired Dell Precision M6300.
The problem instigating this post today, is that I ran into a snag while trying to reset grub for my installation of Antix v19.3 (now fully upgraded via terminal).
I typed “sudo apt-get purge grub-pc grub-common” into a terminal, but then I saw that its output to the screen included the following:
————————The following packages will be REMOVED:
antix-installer* bootrepair-antix* grub-common* grub-efi-amd64-bin*
grub-efi-ia32-bin* grub-pc* grub-pc-bin* grub2-common* installer-data-antix*
os-prober*————————
I aborted the operation (typed in “n” at the prompt), because it seems as if it’s deleting things beyond what is necessary. I mean, would I really want to lose “antix-installer*”, “bootrepair-antix*”, “installer-data-antix”, or “os-prober”?
And, what guarantee would I have that I could recover those files during use of “sudo apt-get install grub-pc grub-common”, or “sudo update-grub”?
I’m kind of stuck at this point, and I would appreciate a little guidance for what to do next.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by scruffyeagle. Reason: I put it into the wrong forum, at first. So, I tried to move it using the drop-down forums list
- This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by scruffyeagle.
Topic: Android and Privacy
Well worth reading
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf
There are claims this makes google less invasive than xiaomi and huawei, those claims disregard the information
collects and can correlate to android device users. Sources DNS service, Safe Browsing, Search engine, data on
every search performed with firefox etc..As fart as feasible I have disconnected myself from google, BUT do not expect that in any way detracts from
surveillance by government agencys. Googles mother company alphabet, definitely a cia corporation.
I am very suspicious on duck duck go claims. Same goes for Brave Browser, They are seated in usa so patriot act
fully applies. My messenger Wire, claims to be swiss but has HQ in USA so is not exactly open to users.
In any case switzerland is said not to spy on its citizens, sure it does on non citizens.- This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by ModdIt.
Long story short: long ago I gave my parents my old laptop- it was a very sturdy HP Pavilion, with a desktop size keyboard and a nice 16:9 screen. But it is a 32 bits single core, non pae (or so I think) that was born with 512mb of RAM and now has 1024mb. It came with Windows XP, that’s how old it is. At the time I gave it way, I tested the fasted distros I knew- antiX, lubuntu and Bodhi. My test was- opening a movie trailer in youtube, on all the distros- the smoother the play, the most useful the distro would be. Bodhi won, and got installed. Now I decided to update it to antiX 19.4 (to get an idea of how 21 will run on it). Bodhi is light, but antiX runs on less of 60mb of idle ram (in fluxbox-min desktop).
I wanted to make the best use possible of this still 100% working and beautiful machine. This is how I achieved it:-Internet browsing: I kept firefox-esr, but it runs slow. I tried badwolf (it works fine when not using JS); Palemoon and Iceweasel. I prefer Palemoon (it even allows streaming youtube at 480p) but Iceweasel has better compatibility with more complex web sites- it even runs MS Office on-line (so, yes, you can run, via web browser, the latest MS Office, if you need to on a machine that would be old enough to vote if it was a person)
-Streaming youtube: smplayer, set to play videos in MPV at 360p
-Office Work: the default LibreOffice works great. If you need to, you can use Google and Microsoft on-line office tools.
-Media player: mpv tries its best to play HD video on this old beast, but it can’t sync video and audio, CPU keeps peaking at 100% (no wonder there). I found something that could play full HD video in an extremely smooth way (and I mean, really, really smooth): I installed “xine” media player and it does wonders- it plays the the Dune .mov full HD trailer without any noticeable loss of video speed, even with the CPU maxing out at 100%- sometimes going old school is the best way to solve problems.
-For pdfs/audio/viewing pictures- I kept the current antiX defaults (probably deadbeef would work too, for audio)
-If I wanted to read e-books, I would probably go with Calibre.For all you folks with Window XP era computers, there you go, as long as you have at least 1 gig of RAM, you can still use the modern web, watch dvd’s and even hd video files, listen to music, work on documents, etc… You can do with half of that RAM, but browsing the modern web gets a bit more difficult…
P.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by PPC.