cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/28583067
LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don’t like generative AI.
Here is the statement posted on Mastodon:
As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick “official” toot to then pin: we haven’t and won’t support “generative AI” related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it “slipped through”. As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.
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I was so close to accept LibreWolf and finally make the switch from Firefox. But sadly LibreWolf does not support saving in Browser passwords. Its because of security concerns, I get it. But look, I want to save passwords in the browser. And sadly this killed LibreWolf for me.
How about using a password manager? I think KeePassXC is useful with its keyboard shortcuts.
Password managers
We suggest that you use a more robust solution than the built-in password manager available in the browser:- Bitwarden: open source password manager that allows for synchronization across multiple devices.
- KeePassXC-Browser: official browser plugin for the open source password manager KeePassXC.
Recommended Addons – LibreWolf
https://librewolf.net/docs/addons/#password-managersIn settings, turn on Firefox syncing, and boom! you have password saving.
Gonna be switching this weekend. It would be great to have a thread that helps all Librewolf newbies.
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It is a good idea to subscribe to the LibreWolf community!
!librewolf@programming.dev
LibreWolf default settings are kind of annoying for someone who lives alone and no one else has physical access to their desktop. I don’t need to be logged out of everything and have my history wiped every time.
I finally tried LibreWolf today and gave up after about an hour of getting annoyed that my less-secure preferences wouldn’t stick and stay. I don’t know, maybe I’m not the target audience, but was finally thinking of giving a Firefox fork a shot and it mostly just annoyed me because I am not necessarily looking for something so ultra secure that it’s deleting all the history and shit every time the browser closes. I feel like having cookies persist isn’t something I should have to allow on a site-by-site basis when I want to stay logged into like 30 different sites, including local sites on my LAN that I manage personally.
Hmm. I was one of those who was interested in LibreWolf for long time. Just recently I had to give it a pass for different reason (but for comfort reason as you). Good to read experiences that talk about the “issues” too. I guess LibreWolf could be used for everything that does not require logging in into a website; in example random websites and websearch and so on. But then, maintaining and using two different browsers would be super annoying (for me).
There is also Waterfox, which got some update recently, with version number 6.6.6! I will look into this and how it compares to LibreWolf.
