Has anyone else tried out LibreWolf as an alternative to Firefox?

It is billed as a more secure version of FF and is based off of the most
recent code. I read a brief review about it and decided to try it out.

The review was mostly about the security features... how a lot of options
that are not automatically defaulted to ON in FF are in LW.

I mention that because I found that LW had some issues. I have a lot of bookmarks in FF. LW offered to import bookmarks from a previous browser
but was only able to find chromium, which I have installed but only use on sites that don't work with FF. I thought that was odd that a FF derivative didn't know where to find the FF info on a debian box.

So then I tried the "import from HTML file" option. That did not work at
all, and LW provided no error message as to why it was not able to import
the file... it was able to open it as a page so it was there and was HTML.

I opened a private window and went to a couple of sites that require a
logon. LW didn't behave as I would expect there, either... this could be a settings issue, though, but it didn't even ask if I wanted the password
saved or not. It seemed completely unaware that I was logging into the websites.

I might try it out again sometime but, for now, it has been apt removed.

Mike


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MIKE POWELL wrote:

Has anyone else tried out LibreWolf as an alternative to Firefox?

No. But it's not the only alternative. Waterfox is probably a better bet.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browsers_based_on_Firefox

It is billed as a more secure version of FF and is based off of the most recent code. I read a brief review about it and decided to try it out.

Er. Well. The person running the Librewolf fork is a rabid nutjob. Do
you trust programs from rabid nutjobs, unless you have no other options?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyjiOBWH91s

Their response to being asked to stick to making a great browser was to
lock the thread.

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2289

and if you're on Arch, there's different trouble:

https://yomotherboard.com/question/how-can-i-tell-if-i-installed-a-dangerous-librewolf-package/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/arch_aur_browsers_compromised/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/arch-linux-users-told-to-purge-firefox-forks-after-aur-malware-scare/ar-AA1J54Fa

And opinions on its security vary:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/librewolf-thoughts/26104
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