![]() ![]() On Fedora all you need is libavcodec-freworld from rpmfusion to get everything working. So you add that to Firefox and dont need Librewolf anymore. I am working on this tool, should work, that keeps your Arkenfox config up to date and sets a few switches to soften it. Also it lacks behind in updates a bit, not much, but this may become a problem. For one it is a Flatpak, ironically (didnt know this a few weeks ago too) less secure. I would not recommend Librewolf if you are advanced. It is not bad, and I want to write a hardening config soon, to remove and disable all that bloat permanently. Very bloated, tab management worse, missing extensions, damn Chromium webstore and the addon not working so no updates. I would like to like Brave, as it is more secure, but it sucks a lot. There are CSS exploits, but to my understanding just using Noscript in “block all by default” mode is best for security AND privacy. When using the Browsers through Flatpak you need to remove the sandbox, so process isolation and memory stuff is gone, and replace the specific sandbox with bubblewrap.īubblewrap is good, but doesnt support isolated Tabs. Native Chromium is poorly way more secure than Firefox. I actually switched for convenience (keepassxc extension works, plasma extension works etc) but they are actually more secure. What Distro are you on? I use Firefox and Brave, both as RPM now. Ironically for Browser you shouldnt use Flatpaks if you trust the browser and you care about security. ![]() Not all what is proprietary soft is crap nor all FOSS is the panacea, it’s by way not so simple, with ugly surprises when you walk with fixed ideas ![]() But yes Vivaldis 5% of the script of its unique UI is proprietary, to avoid that Google, EDGE or Opera can fork it, same with Brave, it also isn’t fullOpenSource for similar reasons (see its TOS about copyrights) Other engines are easier to go OpenSource, because Chrome or EDGE can’t fork it for the own browsers. That is the value of FOSS today, not the user or the community, nor the ethics or transparency of the company.įOSS is important, yes, for devs who want to launch another fork more, but not so much for the normal user, for this it counts excellent support, an active community, a real interaction with the devs and the team, honesty and ethics of the company. Meanwhile Mozilla made a contract with Google, for using Google as main search, apart from sending Data of the accounts to Alphabet, googletagmanager and googleanalytics to survive. ![]() Since then there has been a continuous war against Google’s attempts to control this browser, which has until now always resulted in Google coming to hit the teeth on a rock, (IdleAPI, FLoC, and other crap) I have been using Vivaldi for more than 7 years and I have seen Google’s tricks to eliminate it, even leading to the point that the Vivaldi team removed the Vivaldi UA, disguising it as Chrome, against their own interests, so that the user not getting blocked by Google services and related pages with the argument “browser not compatible” which was absurd. In the world of browsers, there are already more than 100 on the market, forks of Gecko, Blink and Webkit, some exotic ones aside, like Otter, which is also fighting for its life to avoid passing to the more than 70 browsers that were abandoned and discontinued in this Browser war that exists, where everyone fights to survive against the great Mainstreams Chrome, EDGE, or the Chinese Opera. Many companies no longer focus on communities, developing their products tangentially to the user more in their own interests. Respect privacy it is irrelevant, it depends only of the manufactor of the product, not if it OpenSource or not, all spying APIs of Google, Facebook, MS & cia are all OpenSource and included in a lot of the FOSS in the market (also in Firefox, eg the “save” browsing API is from Google, not really needed if you use an adblocker (uBO), which contains a similar function, this API send your browsing data to Google who host the list of phising sites but also logs your activity, If you can, desactivate it, in Vivaldi you can do it in the privacy settings)įOSS nowadays isn’t the same anymore since BigBrothers entered this world, first Google and Microsoft, the latter even acquiring GitHub, FOSS is no longer the same as it was a few years ago. Anyway, with more than 100 browsers curretntly in the market, OpenSource or not isn’t the most important poiny, more important the ethics and transparency respect the user of the company. And its better so this way, making it OpenSource too, Chrome and Edge are the first in forking it, which will be the end of Vivaldi and any other Chromium. Yes and no, 5% of the script, corresponding to its unique UI is proprietary, but 100% auditable and even moddeable by the user (in the Forum they show you even how to do it, at own risk, logical). ![]()
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