Flatsonar

LibreWolf

by LibreWolf Community

LibreWolf Web Browser

Broad permissions Verified creator MPL-2.0 v156.0-1
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Screenshot 1 of LibreWolf

About

LibreWolf

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.
  • Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within librewolf.cfg and policies.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 editing librewolf.cfg and policies.json.
  • LibreWolf-addons: set of optional LibreWolf extensions
  • Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
  • Tested settings: settings are performance aware
  • Recommended and code reviewed addons list
  • Community-Driven
  • And much more…

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • smart card readers
    --socket=pcsc
  • network configuration
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • printing
    --socket=cups
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • access to xdg-run/speech-dispatcher
    --filesystem=xdg-run/speech-dispatcher:ro
  • talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
    --talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*
  • accessibility
    --talk-name=org.a11y.Bus
  • talks to org.freedesktop.FileManager1
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1
  • owns bus name io.gitlab.firefox.*
    --own-name=io.gitlab.firefox.*
  • registers as a media player (MPRIS)
    --own-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.firefox.*
  • owns bus name io.gitlab.librewolf.*
    --own-name=io.gitlab.librewolf.*

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.