The new MV3 architecture reflects Google’s avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant’s attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory’s new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.

For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, “options” means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.

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          It just has a crap load of software packages it depends on to work properly (though a number of them seem like fonts). I have reasonably fast computer, and it’s been compiling for about 45 minutes at this point.

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              Just did with librewolf-bin, thanks. I always forget to look for the binary packages specifically on AUR.

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            Ah compile… guess I’ll stick with regular Firefox. There are some magiks I don’t tamper with.

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                  It’s really nice. It’s compatible with all Linux distros and it provides some configurable sandboxing via bubblewrap that you don’t get with other repos. The sandboxing is easilly configurable using a GUI like Flatseal.

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                    Interesting, thanks for the insight. One of these days I’ll spin up a VM to play around with it.

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              I mean, if you’re intimidated by compiling you probably shouldn’t be using Arch to begin with.

              (I’m hoping that you didn’t understand the “on AUR” part of the comment as well as the “dependencies” part, and actually use a more reasonable distro that isn’t subject to the issue @bobs_monkey is complaining about.)

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                  • Arch is a Linux distribution that intentionally requires a bunch of relatively-complicated manual steps to install, so “I use Arch BTW” has become a meme among people who want to brag about how ‘l33t’ they are.

                  • AUR is Arch’s package manager.

                  • A package manager is a software database that lets you easily install apps with a single command (e.g. [tool-name] install [app-name]) along with all the software libraries they depend on (i.e. their ‘dependencies’), such that you only need one copy of each library no matter how many apps use it.

                  (Without a package manager, there are two other ways installing apps can work: either an app can come with its own copy of all its dependencies, which means it takes up a lot of disk space unnecessarily, or the user can be responsible for installing all the dependencies separately, which is a gigantic pain in the ass. Windows takes the former approach, while Linux, before package managers were invented, tended to do the latter because open-source software was distributed mostly as source code you had to compile and link yourself.)

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      Anyone that’s used Librewolf mind offering their opinion on it? That description sounds pretty sweet.

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        It’s the best. Deletes all cookies and browsing data on exit by default. I changed it to keep history and cookies for a handful of sites

        Turned up uBO to strict mode and installed JShelter to get rid of most clientside fingerprinting (this will cause some breakage on a site by site basis though, which is quick to be fixed. Mostly on sites that are dynamically managed by JS instead of the way it’s meant to be)

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            Not really, NoScript prevents executing all JavaScript by default. JShelter instead strongly limits what JS can do and spoofs some values to throw of fingerprinters. It also has a network boundary shield (mostly blocking cross sites post/get requests. Same for lan to prevent your local network being scanned etc). And it comes with a fingerprint detector which allows you to see which websites want to track you the most (I avoid those whenever possible)

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          Deletes all cookies and browsing data on exit by default

          This would make for an extremely annoying browsing experience.

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            True

            That’s why I changed it to keep all history and cookies on pages I whitelisted

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        It is pretty sweet. Used it as my main browser for a year. It comes pretty hardened. Try it out for sure its worth it.

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        In my experience, the Flatpak variant of Firefox on Linux is the swiftest among Firefox-based browsers.

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        It’s a bit too restrictive by default imo, good for privacy but you will need to change quite a few setting if you want to browse normally.

        Despite my opinion it’s the browser I use most on my laptop.

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        I’ve had librewolf specific bugs absent in firefox, definitely not a strict upgrade.

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        It’s great. It’s essentially Firefox, but without the unnecessary bullshit like Sponsored sites or Pocket integration, and it has some quite significant privacy and security improvements. Also comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed.

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        I’ve used Librewolf until pretty recently and I say it’s not for everyone. It’s hardened Firefox made into its own thing for people who want the benefits of hardened Firefox but don’t want to go through the effort of hardening their Firefox install.

        There are some sites that wouldn’t work in the strictest settings. As far as I remember, the most problematic sites with Librewolf are those that demand way too much in terms of privacy and security, so I took it as a given that if a site doesn’t work with Librewolf (with me using the default settings), it’s not worth it to enter to begin with.