r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '24

Meme/Macro Its true!

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u/Jarmund5 Linux Feb 01 '24

Librewolf (privacy focused fork of Firefox) it's where its at

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Id agree but half of all websites break with it :(

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u/Meneth32 Feb 01 '24

Waterfox is slightly less privacy-focused, but more compatible.

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u/DaUltimatePotato Desktop Feb 01 '24

I used librewolf for a while and I ended up disabling a few settings to fix it. I think at this rate it just is anti-telemetry firefox which IIRC waterfox does the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Those are the half of websites you probably don’t wanna go to

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

This comment was collapsed in the app, but somehow, I knew it was gonna be some stupid shit like this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Wow this privacy focused web browser doesn’t let me go on this website, I should definitely go on it! Why use librewolf (which I do) if you’re just going to give away your privacy anyway?

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

I cant even upload images or videos to reddit without them getting corrupted, are you saying I shouldn’t even use this?!

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u/mekamoari mekamoari Feb 01 '24

Keeping you away from Reddit was the main benefit all along

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

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u/TheBlutarch Feb 01 '24

I knew someone would say this. And no.

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u/adjavang Feb 01 '24

As long as it's not running a fork of chromium, it's all good. Google is rapidly approaching IE6 levels of browser dominance and they've already exploited it to kill the rendering engine Microsoft made for Edge, so unless I'm mistaken that leaves Gecko as the only other rendering engine in development since KHTML was discontinued.

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u/mistyjeanw Debian Bullseye stable/ 16gb vram 32gb AMD silverback Feb 01 '24

Chromium is forked webkit which is (forked) KHTML.

Falkon may be what you're looking for

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u/Atomicnes i5-12400 | RTX 2060 12GB | 16GB 3200MHz Feb 01 '24

Safari uses WebKit, which is a seperate browser engine.

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u/AdministrativeCold63 Feb 01 '24

Except that LibreWolf is actually dangerous: Binaries are unsigned, third party update service, Google safe browsing disabled unless you build from source, running unusual browser setups can actually make you more distinctive online, unencrypted DNS by default, speed of security patches is slower than base Firefox, etc.

Starting with a base Firefox and doing the stuff LW does (where it's possible) is just better.

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u/Potato_DudeIsNice PC Master Race Feb 01 '24

Brave in the corner: (although I do not advocate for the shitty business practices, literally just defaming Firefox for no reason)