hello everyone, I’m one of the maintainers, mostly involved with osx and the settings. just joined the community with a fresh account.

I will try to be active so that we can get this community going, it would be nice to be present on a federated service such as lemmy. it seems like the creator is not around anymore so that might become a pain at some point, but we’ll see.

  • Adda
    7·
    3 years ago

    Hey, it is great to have you here. I would really enjoy more content from this community. And I believe I will not be the only one.

    it seems like the creator is not around anymore so that might become a pain at some point, but we’ll see.

    That is not a problem. You can request to be assigned as a mod for this community and the community to be transferred to you (I would highly encourage you to do so) by making a post at !community_requests@lemmy.ml community. See one of the previous posts there if necessary. Already done (See @dessalines@lemmy.ml’s comment). This is the official way to achieve it normally, though.

    • fishonthenetOPM
      5·
      3 years ago

      Hey, it is great to have you here. I would really enjoy more content from this community.

      same, it’s good to see some of our community hangs in here.

      • Adda
        4·
        3 years ago

        Quite a few from what I have seen so far, I would say. LibreWolf gets recommended rather a lot around here.

  • DessalinesA
    6·
    3 years ago

    Cool! I’ve given you control over this community also.

  • Vegafjord eo
    4·
    3 years ago

    What is prioritized in the development of librewolf right now?

    • fishonthenetOPM
      3·
      3 years ago

      main stuff that I’m aware of:

      • revamped website and docs. we have a contributor doing a wonderful job, one of the maintainers even bought a new domain, it’s very very nice. I’m rewriting some descriptions and docs, including a more in depth feature list finally.
      • a better build script that works across multiple linux distros (tho I’m not contributing to that so I don’t have details).

      other stuff going on lately:

      • a bunch of changes in the settings, the changelog is rather extensive lol, but imho our setup is looking very good right now.
      • we are reconsidering ipv6 and mozilla tracking protection.
      • a while ago we started working on a librewolf specific part of the UI, where some additional settings are exposed. unfortunately on that front development kinda stagnated lately :-(
      • I remember something about dir organization on linux and also a new debian release (now that they updated upstream firefox there), but I couldn’t find the links.

      next on the roadmap I would like to see us introducing crlite by default, it should be rather easy.

  • GenkiFeral
    3·
    3 years ago

    Glad you are here.
    Once again i am trying to make LibreWolf work for me by trying to set up KeePassXC and, once again, am tempted to give up. For me, this login-password issue is what makes me less likely to open up LibreWolf. I may need to try Bitwarden.

    • Adda
      3·
      3 years ago

      What is the problem with KeePassXC? I use KeePassXC with LibreWolf and everything works just fine.

      • GenkiFeral
        4·
        3 years ago

        I use the appimage, but just now when trying to install the deb, saw that i have that, too. (the browser ext. said I was using an outdated version and I was). I have the most popular FF extension for it, KeePassXc-Browser. I can see the KeePass symbol by the login and can see that I manually entered that login, password, URL in a group name in my .kdbx file. But, when I click on the logo in the login in area, it still makes me type in both login and password. Also, I am rather confused about how to organize (if I need to) my groups (I use 4 IDs online) since I use 2 PCs and the browser extension asked me to enter a title for each PC used. I am still not sure if everyone needs to use that extension, but it seems the only way. I began by using one file for each ID, then when that didn’t seem to work well, i went to one master file with 4 groups. Also, it seems the file may time out periodically and need to be reopened - that is what the browser extension seems to say. That means shutting down the app on my PC and logging into it again - almost as annoying as logging into each site - depending on how often I change sites, I guess.

      • GenkiFeral
        2·
        3 years ago

        thanks. I’ll try to that.
        i want to do things the more private way, but every damned FOSS thing I touch has glitches and/or a learning curve and sometimes what seems like my fault is not but I try for 6 hours only to fail.

        • fishonthenetOPM
          3·
          3 years ago

          I think you would really enjoy bitwarden if you value simplicity. give a shot over the built in password manager imo, it has better synchronization and it is likely a more robust and secure solution. it also looks very nice.

    • fishonthenetOPM
      3·
      3 years ago

      cause sometimes you gotta work with what you have at your disposal, and osx users deserve privacy tools as well. also, you can make osx decently private.

        • fishonthenetOPM
          2·
          3 years ago

          If they want privacy then why are they using OSX?

          a number of reasons:

          • one might not have access to other hardware.
          • one might not have the money to replace old hardware.
          • one might need high performance hardware and apple is the cheapest available (believe it or not this is true in some parts of europe, by far).
          • one might be forced to use osx for work or studies.
          • one might use different machines with different OSes for different use cases, and he wants to protect from online tracking.

          if your OS is spying you, that tool is useless, right?

          I don’t think osx is “spying” on you: it’s not ideal, but it isn’t a keylogger or even win10 level of bad, at least imo. you can also use osx without an apple account.

          even assuming one is using an os which is very bad for privacy, it still depends on what you are trying to defend from in that specific setup. one might be comfortable with the data collection in win10 but he might want to use LibreWolf to prevent online tracking, and that’s a totally fine use case.

            • fishonthenetOPM
              1·
              3 years ago

              If you live in a island isolated from tech world you don’t need to care about privacy

              you can still be tracked around the internet.

              apple is always more expensive and harder or impossible to repair

              I swear to you every other high performance and lightweight laptop is more expensive in my country and I just couldn’t afford it at the time. I know it sounds crazy, I wish I could go for something else at that time, I just couldn’t (many others are in the same spot). impossible to repair is unfortunately very much true, but environmentally speaking I want to be conscious so I won’t throw it away as long as it works.

              why are they there in first place?

              think of video editors, ios devs, students who need software for exams that only works on proprietary OSes. it sucks I know, but it can happen.

              f you are looking for privacy, keep away from Apple and Microsoft

              I agree, but still. also even if you don’t use an open source OS you might want to protect from online tracking, why not?

              this is still safer than Apple

              I disagree with this. I can block outgoing stuff with a firewall and I can use my laptop without an account even without pirating the license (which is illegal btw). also, by default osx doesn’t collect as much data, especially if you don’t have an apple id.