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Librewolf is a community maintained project which removes the privacy compromising parts and provides an additionally hardened browser config. Since using Chromium based browsers is not really an alternative (There shouldn’t be a single browser engine dictating web standarts! 👀), some people decided to step in and provide a better solution. Their browser, Firefox, collects a lot of telemetry by default.

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The spartan website is not very convincing - for example, the tag line is "A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.Recently we got to know that Mozilla no longer supports a free internet.

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If i wanted to move in this direction, the first thing i would do, is suggest to the libre-wolf team, that the best thing they could do, for the sake of maintaining "a libre firefox", would be to join the gnuzilla effort - if that happened, there would be more confidence that the devs were sincerely dedicated to software freedom, and most importantly, that project would endure That happened less than a year ago so 'libre-wolf' is not a very mature project, even with its 'libre-fox' legacy - what that means to us, is mainly that there is a large likelihood that 'libre-wolf' will also be abandoned soon which would leave us to maintain it Overall, i was less than impressed by it though - the website describes it as a community-maintained fork of the 'libre-fox' project so i looked at the libre-fox project - AFAICT, that project lasted for less than a year and was abandoned several months before libre-wolf "forked" it - of course, as the project was abandoned, they did not actually fork it, they simply took on its' maintenance role, and renamed it - i dont see any reason why they had to change the name - it is presumably the same code-base, with new maintainers

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I was thinking the same - i looked into it a bit - they claim to have some code in it which guarantees absolutely no unauthorized connections to third-parties - i dunno if i believe that but it is interesting Ideally this implementation should be removed from the source tree before build, because FSDG requires the following:įor instance, a free system distribution must not contain browsers that implement EME, the browser functionality designed to load DRM modules.

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Although I couldn't make it to actually download Widewine CDM after flipping appropriate preferences, one can clearly see that EME related stuff is still being compiled during build. AFAIK Iceweasel has the implementation in place too, and it's just disabled by build flag that mostly switches preferences off.

I couldn't find any code for langpacks in the repos.

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Like disabled Sync or most of WebRTC that might be useful for free software like Jitsi.

Default preferences might put off some users, as sometimes they might seem too strict.

I guess it's necessary to try to communicate and sort this out with LibreWolf project first.

It's not clear if project understanding of software freedom concepts aligns with FSDG and Parabola standards.

Hopefully less effort for updating the package, since most of rebranding and deactivating of unwanted functionality is handled upstream.

Release delays after a few recent official Firefox releases have been no more than a few days.

"Recommendations" from (AMO) for extensions and themes.

some functionality is disabled via either preference overriding or built-in Enterprise Policies, for example:.

most of the URLs to Mozilla domains removed via preference overriding mechanism, similarly to what Parabola does in vendor.js.

Examples of the changes that are already applied upstream:.

GMP (I guess applies here too), telemetry-, health-, crash-, other-reporting implementations that are currently just disabled via preferences / policies.

DRM implementation (please see note for details).

recommendations of nonfree software like Firefox Developer Edition.

Examples of these changes include removing the following:

To comply with FSDG and Parabola standards, it's necessary to either convince upstream to make some changes, or to do them downstream.are welcome, because as usual, the following may not be correct.

Please refer to the project website, docs, and code first.Īny constructive corrections, comments, concerns, criticism, etc. I've built librewolf 75.0-1 locally after adding only the following 3 lines to the PKGBUILD from the AUR: