• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        This is the first I’ve heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good?

        • ivn@jlai.lu
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          2 months ago

          You really shouldn’t connect windows 7 to the internet.

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          2 months ago

          Librewolf is a fork of firefox that removes bloat and telemetry. You can “harden” firefox to do the same thing, but librewolf comes out of the box hardened.

          By the way, If you’re on win7 and don’t want to upgrade, Linux Mint might be a good alternative. It looks and feels similar but isn’t a security risk to connect to the internet.

        • jrgd@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          https://librewolf.net/

          A summary from its site and known technical details:

          • no telemetry by default
          • includes uBlock Origin
          • has sane privacy-respecting defaults
          • prepackages arkenfox user.js
          • relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream
          • No major controversies AFAIK

          As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      You’re overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge “stan” for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox’s grave and actively avoid it everywhere… However. If I’m wrong, there will be a Next Thing…

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      2 months ago

      If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.

      • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        Firefox is no longer an adversary to Google for the browser market, if it ever was. FF has become a vassal of Google that with its tyranny is dictating the course of the internet, such as WEI that as far as I know it was abandoned at least for now.