 So I've been asked for a while now to try out a browser called LibreWolf and What LibreWolf is is actually a fork of Firefox where they pulled basically Everything out of Firefox that could possibly track you or fingerprints you or be a security risk of any kind So things like Firefox sync not there things like remembering your browsing history is not enabled by default even things like enabling Website theming which is a brand new feature of Firefox 100 is disabled by default because it requires some kind of fingerprinting Capability for the browser to actually choose what theme it's going to use So if you're going to use LibreWolf you need to be really dedicated to privacy and there's nothing wrong with that In fact, it's a good thing for you to be dedicated to your privacy And I thought well, maybe I will try this out because I need to be more privacy conscious And I could definitely do more along that line and trying to make myself more private on the internet So I've been using LibreWolf now for a few days and I have some thoughts but my overarching thought around the whole experience is LibreWolf isn't for me and The reason why is simply because the moment I open up LibreWolf for the first time The first thing I immediately do is go into it or go into the settings of LibreWolf and pretty much re-enable all the things that they've taken out of Firefox in order to make a more privacy conscious browser So I re-enable things like remembering browser history. I Re-enable things like Firefox sync and for me it defeats the purpose of using LibreWolf I can see how other people who don't rely on those features would be perfectly happy not having them and Would find LibreWolf a perfectly functioning browser, but for me I couldn't use it out of the box So let's go ahead and talk about my experience over the last couple days So this is my LibreWolf instance, and I've tried my damnedest to not just make it Firefox I tried for a whole day just to use it completely as it's supposed to be used like I left all the settings basically the same I Didn't even give it a theme or anything like that I just used it the way it came comes out of the box and it was okay But the my biggest problem with it is that by default it doesn't remember browsing history Which is again a good thing if you're privacy conscious, but if you close the browser often But you want it to be you want it to Remember where you were when you close it and reopen up those tabs when you reopen the browser You have to have that enabled so that was the first thing I did once I got past the using it out of the box Phase that I re-enabled so I went into privacy and security and then I clicked on which one it was it was this one here and Then I was able to go here and click this here I didn't actually get that to work because I ended up having to go into the Configuration file and actually put the overrides in there, but that's kind of beside the point that was the first thing I ended up having to do and that was kind of the beginning of a slippery slope of Me just changing as much as I could here to Make it better for me and by the time I was done. I had signed into my Mozilla account I had re-enabled several security things Here that weren't here by default and I just felt that I was basically just using Firefox by that point there was no purpose for me to actually use LibreWolf at all and That's like I said, that's kind of the bottom line is that by the time I got to the end of my three or four day experience I was just using Firefox and all of my features that I used in Firefox are here now That's not necessarily true because there are still a few things that are off So things like ask to save logins and passwords. I have that enabled in Firefox just because it's the default It's not enabled here. I can live without that because I use bit warden another thing that I've Definitely done better this time is that I haven't put in a ton of extensions So I have an ad locker and I have my Vim extension installed That's literally it so I've done a better job on the extension things But that's more of a me thing than a LibreWolf thing I suppose LibreWolf could get some credit for that because I was thinking about it this time rather than just letting the Firefox sink Sink all of my extensions over I just click that off so that they don't sink over and Just installed the two that I needed for sure, but I'm left to question Why I would use it if I'm just going to for the most part Recreate the Firefox experience because at the end of the day This is just Firefox and if you're not going to leave the defaults that LibreWolf presents you and you're going to Re-enable things that are going to Sacrifice your privacy in some way for me It just makes more sense to stick with Firefox where I have all my extensions are already enabled all my settings My themes my user Chrome CSS all that stuff's already there And I don't have to reset it up on LibreWolf, which is it's possible to reset it up It would just be like I'd be recreating the exact same thing. I'm already using that's the problem That I see with LibreWolf and it's not as if I don't see the point of LibreWolf because I really do like I'm leaning towards leaving it Install and allowing myself to use it when I don't need any of those other things I would use it during periods of my day where I don't care if I close the browser and come back to it that the tabs were aren't remembered or if I Want to have it so that I'm not signed in anything. I could just use this And it would be kind of similar to using like a private tab or something in Firefox only More private because it's not actually sending any telemetry or anything like that to Firefox So that's a possibility for my use case of it But I don't see a situation where I could actually use it full-time Simply because like I said, I would just really able a lot of the features them from Firefox therefore completely Missing the point of using LibreWolf in the first place. So those are my brief thoughts on LibreWolf I know that I probably could have done a more in-depth Video on the features and the things that it actually pulls out But my recommendation for you is to just try it download it from the chaotic a you are or something like that so that you don't have to compile it and Just give it a try because I don't think that anyone can really do it justice Like I can sit here in time blue in the face and tell you go Oh, it pulls out this feature in this feature in this feature at that point. I'm really doing you know Justice because it's really the only way you're gonna experience this and know that it's going to be for you is to try it out And that's what I did. I tried it out. It's not for me But I could like I said, I could see how it could be very useful for people who are really entrenched into Caring about their privacy 100% so that those are my thoughts on LibreWolf If you have comments about LibreWolf or other things you can leave those in the comment section below You can follow me on Twitter As you can see I'm very concerned about my privacy. 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