#LibreWolf v141.0.3-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/141.0.3-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0.3/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

#LibreWolf v141.0.2-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/141.0.2-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0.2/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

(and: sorry for the missing release notification for 141.0-1, and for the slightly delayed one for this release as well.)

Here, Elena Rossini explains Why and How she is purging #BigTech out of her life. While she readily admits she is not totally free of it, she has gone a long way. She has a blog where she talks about her journey to #Freedom from #Technofeudalism and calls out the hypocracy of some #TechWriters along the way。

“I watched a brilliant TED Talk by journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the broligarchy titled “this is what the digital coup looks like.” Shortly thereafter I discovered that Cadwalladr is using Substack (the Nazi-friendly newsletter platform funded by the broligarchs at A16Z) for her blog; her social media platform of choice is Bluesky (funded by crypto bros at Blockchain Capital). Sadly Cadwalladr has no social profiles on the Fediverse and isn’t using - as far as I know - any FOSS platforms to publish her reporting. This feels incredibly incongruous.”

It’s well worth a read. And for those still ‘fenced in’ by commercial social platforms, she offers hope and some ways to ditch them.

Personally, My tie to #TechBros #oligarchy is Gmail (though not for much longer as I am mostly migrated off). Otherwise, I’m on Signal and an Australian hosted mail server (until that one starts getting ideas I won’t agree with). My blog is about to transfer to a platform based in Australia for less $$ (of @shlee fame - I’m gettting there Shlee!) and getting off WordPress hosting (I’ll be using a #cpanel equiv #EnhanceDotNet.). My #Microsoft days are numbered with #LinuxMint on my other laptop ready to take over very soon. I’m still tied to Apple with my iPad (tooting away on it atm). My mobile is an old & cheap #Android device. My browser is #LibreWolf. My mail client is #Thunderbird .

Best thing that ever happened to me was to find out about the #Fediverse. I’ve never looked back from this, only forward.

I’m not going to lie, there is a cost to bear. I have lost digital links to all my friends and family (some overseas). But I’ve managed to keep those closest to me via other means (Face-to-face, phone calls, SMS, emails and Signal for those using it). Bottom line is, If am I going to #Rage against #TechBros, I should walk the talk as Elena Rossini is doing. So should you IMO.

#FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #cpanel

For Australian hosting See: https://fedicloud.au/

Read more:

https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

I can see some sites load much, much slower on #librewolf than #safari. I wonder if it is something on the browser or some deliberate change on the server?

Nice - Good - Better — Betterbird?

Ich bin ja schon vor langer Zeit von #Firefox zu #Librewolf gewechselt. Heute habe ich dann das Gleiche auch mit Thunderbird gemacht.

Zum einen habe ich immer ein ungutes Gefühl, wenn ich mich mit mehreren Tools auf einen einzigen Anbieter (hier Mozilla) verlasse, zum anderen ist mir #Mozilla (Firefox) in letzter Zeit mit recht schwammigen Äußerungen zu den Nutzerdaten und auch zu der Einführung der „Privacy Preserving Attribution“ aufgefallen, so soll auch bei #Thunderbird doch recht einfach mit #Sicherheitslücken und dem #Datenschutz umgegangen worden sein und diese manchmal wohl nur mehr oder weniger geblockt / kaschiert haben.

Ich bin kein Experte in diesen Dingen, sondern „höre“ da auch nur auf andere Fachleute, aber es war für mich wirklich ganz einfach umzuschwenken.

#Betterbird nutzt die gleiche Oberfläche, das Handling ist ebenfalls gleich und auch die Add-ons können dort genutzt werden. Es ändert sich für mich also nichts, außer dass die Devs dort schneller auf Sicherheitslücken und Probleme reagieren sollen.

https://www.betterbird.eu/

How do security-aware people feel about downloading and installing web browsers from "the Internet"? For example, for FreeBSD there is Pale Moon, but there is no port/package for it. On Linux, at least some distros don't have LibreWolf. So, you have to go and download these from their respective websites. (Well, on Linux I could maybe use DistroBox if I could find a LibreWolf package in another distro.)

I'm sure bad actors could manage to hide malicious code in packages that you get via your OS/distro repos as well, but it feels a little bit more secure when someone from the OS/distro has gone through the trouble of creating and releasing a package via their own package system.

Basically, how can I trust a tool I download from the Internet with quite sensitive data?

Am I just being naive? Should I *always* run all web browsers inside jails or use flatpaks etc so they can't access files in my $HOME dir etc?

Grumble. Installed the latest @librewolf yesterday. 140.0.4-1.This morning on boot up. No open tabs. Was using two windows. One didn’t come back. "recently closed tabs" is blank. No way to recover except to try to remember what was open.

Guess they brought in whatever the bug was in Firefox (and why I left).

Very frustrating to have to try to recreate what I was working on first thing in the morning.

Why are browsers such pieces of shit now?

@fixatedpersonsunit
Better it is...

#Librewolf is one of many alternatives...

Hmm, #Proton suddenly stopped working in #LibreWolf. Decryption error.
"Proton account requires a modern browser", define: modern.
My LibreWolf is up to date.

#librewolf #linux #fedora42

***SOLVED***

Zeitreise mit LibreWolf?
Über Einstellungen ist hinterlegt, dass der Browser die Systemuhrzeit verwenden soll. Trotzdem hinkt er 2 Stunden hinterher. Beim Fernsehprogramm kann ich das tolerieren, dass der Tatort bereits 18:15 Uhr anfängt, aber bei der Buchung des carsharing Autos wird's verwirrend.

Anbei meine Einstellungen. Kann bitte jemand mal drüberschauen, ob euch was auffällt?

Danke!

#LibreWolf v140.0.2-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/140.0.2-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

We've updated the default browsing data sanitizing config to a newer version of the settings. This _should_ not affect the actual settings at all (and did not during our tests), but we advise you check your "clear/remember history" related settings after updating anyway, just in case.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0.2/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

CANNOT BELIEVE I have not been doing this for the past thirty years.

#Librewolf (or, you know, #Firefox, I guess) lets you add "keywords" to bookmarks. Type the keyword, hit return, go to URI directly.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks

Odd/annoying problem logging on to @mstdn @stux using @librewolf #Librewolf (a #Firefox fork) - it won't accept my username and password. I can't remember if it ever worked, but definitely not this week.

I just tried disabling any relevant extensions and even ResistFingerPrinting in case they were interfering, but nothing helped.

It's fine in Chromium-based browsers - e.g. Edge and Vivaldi, where I had either logged off or had never logged on before.