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 to ALL <=-

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.

Haven't heard of that one. Sounds like somewhat of a painful
experience.

I've been using the "Brave Browser" for a while now. Also supposed to
be focused on security, and I think it's based on Chrome/Chromium. I
like it pretty well, although I also use Firefox for some things. You
could give that one a look.



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Hello Mike!

07 Jan 26 11:03, you wrote to all:

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

I didn't know that, and I'm not very familiar with web browsers, apart
from the usual ones.

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Mike Powell wrote to ALL <=-

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

I have under Windows and I had difficulty using it with Twitch which was a dealbreaker with me.

I may try it again under Slackware to see if that issue goes away.

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