When I see people talking about LibreWolf it’s always loved it or hated it.
People that hated complain that either it requires too much configuration to make it usable (because of the strict default settings) or that you should just use Mullvad because (either real reasons or just better marketing about privacy)
People that loved (include me) just see it as being what FireFox should be, community driven and user first. However, I believe that everyone that is using LibreWolf as main browser (like me) is only doing that because they tweaked the settings. Allowed saving browsing history, saving passwords, manually added cookie exceptions for the sites you want to stay logged in, etc.
Out of the box, LibreWolf seems like it’s trying to compete with Mullvad and Tor as a hardcore privacy-first browser (although letterboxing isn’t default?), but can it really do it? I mean, I’m not saying it can’t on a technical level (which I’m in no way qualified to judge), but Mullvad is a huge company and Tor a very mature project… I’ve read a bunch of guides and people talking about privacy browsers, and I never saw anyone recommending LibreWolf over Mullvad or Tor if you want to browse sensitive content or use an online identity you don’t want to be so easily linked to your main one.
Isn’t LibreWolf fans using it as the main browser for daily-use? The way I see it (and I don’t know how aligned it is with the project itself, nor the rest of the user base) LibreWolf is an alternative to Chrome, FireFox, and especially Brave. It’s a really community-drive project with focus on privacy that prioritizes the user and isn’t involved in shady business like Brave.
So, well, when I recommend LibreWolf to people, I recommend it as a substitute for Brave, but out of the box it feels like trying to be an alternative to Mullvad/Tor instead…
Hmm, yeah, perhaps it’s better not to have those by default, as it is privacy/security‑oriented… It would be fun to discover how many users change those settings though, if only they gathered telemetry data xD
I just remembered this documentary I watched about industrialized food, and when they created cake‑mix powder in the '50s the housewives didn’t like it because they didn’t feel like they were making the cake, so the industry removed the dried eggs from the recipe just so the housewives would have to add the eggs and whisk the cake themselves and feel like real bakers… look at us, we are so selective about our software and like to fine‑tune it to our needs. If it already came all configured for us, we would feel like normies hehe