What do you think about LibreWolf?

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What do you think about LibreWolf? Is it trustworthy enough for using it to login into banks and sensitive accounts (like email)?

Because many people recommended me exactly LibreWolf…

Anyone here using it? What do you think?

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Welcome to the community @Jordan.cc, thanks for joining us! :handshake:

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While LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox, @tkn has recommended it as a better choice for security reasons.

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It’s good and faster than firefox plus no telemetry,
I was using it year ago ,now I’m on helium browser (chromium)

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Just yesterday, I was checking out different browsers and noticed that people were talking a lot about Libre Wolf… I wasn’t really familiar with it, and I agree with what Eric says, it works well in terms of security.
Right now, I’m using Brave :lion:

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I’d say LibreWolf is definitely more trustworthy than Brave, considered LW is a privacy-focused fork of Firefox. I’d even choose Firefox over Brave, to be honest.

Brave has a history of dodgy practices, including injecting their own referrals into crypto links, ads in home screens, shipping an insecure (and broken) Tor implementation, selling copyrighted content for AI and not telling website owners. I found this post to be pretty good as well. Unfortunately it seems the CEO also has anti-LGBTQ views and gives money to organisations aiming to strip migrants of their rights. I just cannot support this browser or company in any capacity.

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Good choice :+1:

Librewolf is a fork of firefox focused on security and privacy.

I use Librewolf for logging into my bank, logging into work and sites that are known to be ‘difficult’.

In my opinion it is the best choice: Contrary to firefox it comes with sane and secure settings out of the box and has default already “uBlock Origin” (crapware blocker) installed.

In my experience it is the browser with the least annoyances.

(My other browser is Brave, which I operate behind a dns-crypt proxy with extensive filtering which can be problematic sometimes on some sites but a blessing on others)

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I use it for all my sensitive information and accounts but only that. I have it set up so it never saves history or any passwords. I have never had any trouble with it and trust it.

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Andreas, it wasn’t clear to me, from the above, which you were referring to: LibreWolf or Brave?

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