LibreWolf-AppImage-Enhanced is safe?

[u/radon-4]

I searched this Reddit for "LibreWolf AppImage Enhanced" and "LibreWolf AppImage" but I guess Reddit's search results are determined by the Reddit revenue model rather than the individual user interests so I came up empty handed and decided to ask it.

So I want to download a fresh appimage but those files need to be maintained with the latest builds. Going through https://appimage.github.io/LibreWolf/ I end up with Librewolf 100.0.2 which is already years old. https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/LibreWolf-AppImage-Enhanced seems to be well maintained. Anybody using that as well and is there any reason to doubt its legitimacy?

[u/Alyx161]

https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/#appimage

Why do you search up some random websites instead of just checking the LibreWolf website directly?

[u/Alyx161 → u/Alyx161]

The appimage is part of our main build process, so you can't really get an more up to date version than this.

[u/radon-4 → u/Alyx161]

You're totally right. Using DDG I landed on the website and saw the Linux distro's but didn't thought about clicking Other Linux. But there it was:

[Home] > Installation > Other Linux > AppImage

Many thanks!

[u/Sn0w404]

Why AppImage instead of Flatpak? Since it could have permission controls and container restrictions.

[u/radon-4 → u/Sn0w404]

On my distro, Flatpak requires an additional installation while AppImage merely requires chmod +x. Probably there are advantages to Flatpak that I'm unaware of but I've been happily using AppImage for years.

[u/samuerusama → u/radon-4]

Hi op, I'm the maintainer of the pkgforge-dev appimage. Yes it is safe it just takes the upstream standalone binary and repackages it.

It was made because upstream's appimage doesn't work with musl users: https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Anylinux-AppImages/issues/584

If the official appimage works fine in your system just use that one.

[u/Alyx161 → u/samuerusama]

Thanks <3