• Ephera@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 months ago

          I guess, this is most of the changes they do: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/

          There’s maybe a handful where I’m not sure, if you can do them via settings.
          One where it’s technically the case, is that they remove Pocket at compile time. But to my knowledge, Pocket integration is pretty much a glorified bookmark. There’s not much code to remove. And it can be disabled via about:config by setting extensions.pocket.enabled to false.

          I guess, to be fair to LibreWolf, Mozilla has been helping out the Tor Browser devs since forever, so most things needed for Tor Browser are just a toggle in the Firefox settings.
          As a result, though, there’s also lots of settings, which partially need expert knowledge. So, there is definitely room for different presets. But yeah, still leaves the question, whether one really needs a different executable to adjust these settings.

        • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          It ships preconfigured without invading your privacy (like Firefox does). Just look up a comparison online.

            • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Sadly, with default settings that’s the case. Partly due to Telemetry being active and Google being the default search engine.

              • corbin@infosec.pub
                1·
                3 months ago

                Telemetry is not privacy-invading, it’s pretty well anonymized. It’s also a lot easier to change the search engine than it is to download a completely different web browser.

                • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
                  01·
                  3 months ago

                  You should inform yourself before writing. And I say that without any harmful intent. To get a true privacy focused Browser you need to harden Firefox (and may download some scripts from github to do so). Or just use LibreWolf as it has a lot of tracking preventative stuff built in similarly to Mullvad Browser or Tor Browser. Those two are however of course still way better. The latter being the best with regards of anonymity if you know what you are doing. I can just encourage you to inform yourself about the Firefox browser which is better than Chrome of course, but still compromises your privacy in the default shipped state.

                  • corbin@infosec.pub
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    I have informed myself. There is nothing personally-identifiable in the data Mozilla collects in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

                    Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs. IP addresses are deleted every 14 days.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yes, but only begrudgingly.

      (edit) oh no, I’ve said something bad about the lesser evil, and the people who have made it their identity to violently cum all over the first thing that isn’t owned by Google are after me. I hope the pipe bomb hitman is at least polite.

        • atocci@lemmy.world
          0·
          3 months ago

          I just wish Firefox updates weren’t so intrusive. Having it hit me with “Firefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefox” while I’m trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesn’t save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I won’t go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.