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LibreWolf: Browse With Freedom
This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox's integrated addons that don't respect privacy are removed).
LibreWolf is NOT associated with Mozilla or its products.
Features
- Latest Version of Firefox: LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
- Completely Independent Build: LibreWolf uses a completely independent build from Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path. As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
- Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
- IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up): embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed. In other words, zero unauthorized or background connections by default.
- User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
- Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within
librewolf.cfg
andpolicies.json
, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/LibreWolf itself or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editinglibrewolf.cfg
andpolicies.json
. - LibreWolf-addons: set of optional LibreWolf extensions
- Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
- Tested settings: settings are performance aware
- Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
- Dark theme (classic and advanced)
- Recommended and code reviewed addons list
- Community-Driven
- And much more...
Download and Installation
Linux
Manual Compilation
- Build instruction will be updated soon
AppImage
LibreWolf is available in an AppImage Format. Check out the releases page for downloads.
Binary Tarball
LibreWolf is available as a binary tarball. Check out the releases page for downloads.
Arch
LibreWolf is available on the AUR in both source code and binary format.
Windows
Build instruction will be updated soon
Mac
Build instruction will be updated soon
Roadmap
See https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/librewolf/issues
About
- License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Inspired from: ungoogled-chromium
- Based on: Librefox, whose development seems to have halted.
- Acknowledgement, special thanks to:
- @intika for putting Librefox together
- The Mozilla team for their amazing work on Firefox
- The gHacks-User team for allowing the usage of their work
- All the stargazers (users that are encouraging this project by starring it)
- Icons were created with images by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay and from Vaadin on www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY