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15 hours agoI think it’s neither. Mullvad and Tor are a bit more extreme in their defaults, but LibreWolf is not as vanilla as your average browser. I think a welcome screen explaining the address bar controls for toggling data storage and disabling fingerprinting protection on broken trusted sites would make it much more practical.
I think the goal is to be a browser for daily use for privacy-conscious people who are willing to do some work in telling the browser what information to keep/give and to whom. That means it’s likely not meant for the general public, more like privacy nerds and those so inclined to see the browser as a more fine-grained tool to access information rather than a pragmatic, straightforward interface into various web services.
Privacy, like security, is usually at odds with convenience. I agree with you it could be made more convenient, and as I said I think the first time you start LibreWolf it should tell you about some of its convenient features such as the address bar toggles.
So yes, Mullvad is not meant for daily use doing all your browsing, much less Tor Browser. I think you can use LibreWolf as your main browser, particularly if you use several browser profiles. You can e.g. have a separate “work” profile, where you might need to keep/allow more things from corporate systems from personal browsing, where you can block more aggressively and access mostly things you trust. This way you don’t need to have an all-or-nothing approach to your privacy.
I don’t think storing passwords, cookies and other information should be the default. In fact that is one of my favorite features in LibreWolf. I think it’s an excellent default, but it needs some adjusting to in how you think about the browser. That’s why I think it should have a screen on the first run for the first profile explaining its controls, because it does make all this convenient in some ways, but one has to discover that convenience by themselves and at that point frustration might have already overcome them.