LibreWolf is what FireFox was supposed to be: no VPN ads, no telemetry, no AI, uBlockOrigin built in. It's literally the latest FF release, but with the crap ripped out and decent privacy installed.
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But it's based on a browser that's not made to be secure, but instead to have the most features and comply to all these standards. So removing them will make it a bit more secure, but it will never be good. The best browsers are the ones that aren't made to support javascript and all these other standards. A private browser would be something like w3m or links. Ideally, it wouldn't be HTML but gemini's gemtext or just markdown.
I'm still looking for a Librewolf or similar Android fork, has that ever made it close? I know the original project devs dont seem interested.
They went too far in pursuing their foolish dogma and castrated a decent browser to the point where you don't want to work with it at all. For example, they removed the interface element that allows you to save passwords, even though the password manager is still there.
What are you even talking about? I use LibreWolf with the Mozilla password manager. It's a one click enable
Do you even read the bullshit you linked? That's three lines of selfish nonsense telling me what's best for me. But if I missed something, I would love to hear from you how to enable password saving the old good firefox way.
On that page it gives the setting to enable Mozilla Sync
If you were remotely nontoxic, I'd copy and paste the setting for you
Instead of gaslighting me, you could share your great wisdom in this thread.
I honestly wonder if the OP in that thread is in good faith or has some other problem screwing up his config. No, neither FF nor LW randomly change settings on you; you have some process, somewhere, that is either corrupting the sqlite db or straight up changing the config.
Anyway, if you literally did a web search
how to enable mozilla sync in librewolf
you would get the correct answer, which works for 99.99% of people 99.99% of the time:
To enable Mozilla Sync in LibreWolf, go to the about:config page and set the option "identity.fxaccounts.enabled" to true. After that, you should be able to log in to your Firefox account and use the sync features.
I don't understand why you're trying to steer the conversation toward mozilla sync for the second time, ignoring the original saving password problem. If I needed mozilla sync, I would use it. But I don't need it. I don't want it.
So that you don't make any assumptions, I'll just show you what the folks at librewolf have patched out in their struggle against suitable UI:
There is no way I know to have it back into the browser except to find and revert the patches and compile librewolf yourself.
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XMPP. It replaced WhatsApp in my family that signal failed to do.
Conversations is a good client for mobile. Pretty much on par with Whatsapp in ease of use.
Yep pretty lightweight and simple with no extra bloat
I'm curious, I've never had the chance to really use Signal much, and I've never used an XMPP client before. What made you dislike Signal and use XMPP instead? I wish I could convince my iMessage loving mom to jump to anything else.
I prefer it because of resilience. A centralized service can be weakened, geoblocked or shut down by proposals like Chat Control. Decentralized protocols are much safer in such an environment, especially if there is variety in clients and servers.
I had no issue with signal (except phone number verification) but according to my family members signal uses a lot of ram and battery. Non of them have Google play services. XMPP doesn't use that much resources and it's simple, no unnecessary bloat.
Sure all family members dont have play services...
Also bullshit that Signals drains ram or battery, i wouldnt notice and never heard this before.
Maybe Signal drains battery when it can't use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?
I have signal installed direct using obtanium, with the background connector enabled. I've not yet had an issue with it.
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There is also signal-FOSS as an alternative to signal and Molly
Signal-FOSS
https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/
A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
add the repo to your app store to F-droid basic
https://fdroid.twinhelix.com/fdroid/repo/
The twinhelix repo is in the droidify and neostore repo list.
Similarly, there's Signal-Cli. Normally, Signal only allows signups from smartphones, which is weird, because not all smartphones can run privacy-preserving OSes while pretty much anything can run Linux. This one is the only client I've seen that allows desktop signup. IDK if they broke it now, but worked a while ago.
Why the fuck is signal using Google maps
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Immich!
Keeping personal photos off someone else's server and stopping google and apple from training their AI on your nudes.
CoMaps, formerly known as Organic Maps.
Not formerly known. CoMaps is different from Organic Maps. This is the same as saying βLibrewolf, formerly known as Firefoxβ.
I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that's the motive for posting this π
Matrix is good for communication.
Any Linux distro
VeraCrypt, Clonezilla, Joplin, Futo voice and Futo keyboard, Sentry, Wasted, Untracker, WTMP app, Fossify app suite.
Futo Voice and Futo Keyboard are rad and getting better (Swipe needs more time in the oven). Ive used VeraCrypt for a while and dig it
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I recommend my python script, Tonto2.
What does Tonto2 do?
It keeps lists.
You can use lists to keep in touch with family, friends, and cow-orkers.
Tonto2 keeps four kinds of lists:
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You can use an address list to keep track of contacts' phone numbers, mailing addresses, and eMail addresses.
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You can use a calendar to remind you about events and appointments including date, time, and duration. You can add notes about finding the location and other prerequisites to attendance.
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You can keep separate passwords in a password list for every website you visit and every piece of gear you own.
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You can keep links to favorite websites in a bookmark list.
Additionally you can make a list of bibliographic entries for writing research papers and for saving well-formatted footnotes for Web sites, but this is an arcane topic that will probably not be of general interest.
The information in these lists is at your fingertips.
You own it, and you can keep it. You can share it piecemeal with other people and computers without having to trust anyone or any thing with the whole enchilada. This is the idea of Tonto2.
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OnionShare
Picocrypt, which is an encryption tool for files and folders. It's a 3MB application that utilizes XChaCha20 as its encryption algorithm. It isn't developed anymore, but it's well worth it regardless.
Neigsendoig, my producer, just started using it, learning how it works.
The best Portmaster (Windows, Linux) and InVizible Pro for Android and forks (LinageOS, /e/OS....), apart common sense (PEBCAK license)
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Surrey for the tangent, that might be my favourite comic of all time. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson menu pepper still and always will need to learn at some point in their lives
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