Hi Leah,
On 5/15/26 11:59 AM, Leah Rowe wrote:
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But no, I disagree entirely with your fundamental point. Replicating LibreWolf's
modifications to FireFox would mean adding literally handleds of patches.
My claim was that the advertised "hardening" all works through their default
settings - for Firefox.
Which of the patches in
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source/src/branch/main/patches
*do* have an actual hardening effect with regard to the advertised security
benefits or actually *add* a security feature rather than enabling features that
Firefox already provides, as a default?
Look at the source repo for LibreWolf, from git, and you'll see all the patching
plus bootstrapping they do.
I did. I have yet to find something that improves security, though I'm far from
an expert and will be happily convinced otherwise.
What I see is a lot about rebranding, fixing the consequences of rebranding,
bundling UBlock Origin, building the rebranded result, and extending the
settings UI to change some of the knobs that Librewolf is tweaking.
I *do* agree that it would *not* be a good idea to pull all of that into the
Firefox port.
I do not, however, see the point in Librewolf when I look past the marketing and
into what it actually does. But then of course, that's just my personal opinion.
cheers,
Volker
