Should LibreWolf be default browser in Trisquel?
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I've been using LibreWolf for a while now, and it's really quite nice. It removes a lot of the telemetry and spying in Firefox, and it's generally geared towards privacy-by-default.
Similar to the sorts of things ABrowser is doing.
If not using LibreWolf itself, perhaps ABrowser could be rebased with its modifications made to LibreWolf, in a future Trisquel release?
it really is amazing. i had to compile it myself, on the distro that i'm using. a distro that includes it by default would automatically make that distro more worthwhile to use, IMO.
what does the trisquel developers think about this?
Honestly, Trisquel's Abrowser (and also Parabola's Iceweasel) often takes the compilation flags from GNU IceCat, so the feedback between Abrowser and Iceweaseasel often helps to keep updated the GNU IceCat compilation flags ready to the next ESR release (recently, IceCat has been recently updated in their GIT repos to the version 128.12.0 in June 23rd., so it seems that the project is still alive).
However, in the case of Librewolf, they "apparently" strongly on default Arkenfox settings, so that explians a lot about many similarities between Arkenfox default settings and Librewolf's OOBE. Curiously, it seems to be avariable in the GUIX repos and recently up-to-date.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1809
https://librewolf.net/license-disclaimers/
https://hpc.guix.info/package/librewolf
Abrowser is superior in that it has excellent privacy settings plus it's compiled without the DRM option unlike Librewolf.
One new browser that appears to be fully free from the ground up and has outstanding privacy and security settings is Mullvad-browser. I would recommend looking at Mullvad-browser if Trisquel ever had to replace Abrowser.
Yeah they do say how to enable DRM. I am aware of this as well. Its in the wiki
Hi all.
Regarding Mullvad-browser (Mozilla Public License V2) this project cooperates with Torproject bad or good it is for you to decide, I didn't see what language this browser is written in. There are projects that when they appear surprise even Libre users, but after a while something happens and they are sold to Google or similar evil corporations) Time will tell ...
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser
There are also projects like "Cromite", C++ language and GPL-3.0 license
If we talk about the browser for Android (Cromite is for Android) it is the best browser today, since DivestOS fell apart, although there were FSF awards, because it is a one man project, it seems to me very good as one of the options.
Librewolf is a really decent browser (Licenses: MPL-2.0) sometimes you can use it...
Another developer of "unofficial builds of GNU Icecat" I understand is trying to do the same thing as Librewolf.
https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html
So far, that unofficial builds are still tied-up to the source repos, but unlike the GNU/Linux builds that doesn't require propietary dependences in order to get ready, the Windows builds are using the Windows-recommended process for building Firefox-based browsers instead of the Clang-based cross-compilation process.
So far, the builds in the 128.x branch recently released the upstream version 128.12.0, but it's limited to Debian packages and the tarballed XZip packages.
>"Regarding Mullvad-browser (Mozilla Public License V2) this project cooperates with Torproject bad or good it is for you to decide, I didn't see what language this browser is written in."
It's just a Firefox fork just like Tor browser and Librewolf and IceCat and Abrowser are Firefox forks, so it's written in whatever programming languages Firefox is written in. Probably a lot of C, C++, and a smaller amount of Rust.
> ABrowser could be rebased with its modifications made to LibreWolf, in a future Trisquel release?
We could use some settings that might seen interesting, but Abrowser does have it's own set of rules, and patches. So I don't think it will be replaced by something else.
>IceCat has been recently updated in their GIT repos to the version 128.12.0 in June 23rd., so it seems that the project is still alive
About the browser offering in Trisquel 12, some of you already know that we have available ungoogled-chromium, but fewer of you know that sooner than later IceCat will be landing.
So, there you have it, help us test Trisquel 12 and get 3 new browsers for the price of 1. ñ_ñ
Best regards
That seems to be great news, specially for those that are coming from Chrome/Chromium-based browsers, but the interest in GNU IceCat is because I tried to use it on Trisquel 11 and it was absent from the repos unlike Trisquel 9.
I think that it's a great comeback from part of the elder Trisquel userbase, and still Abrowser is still feeding back in terms of building settings to IceCat team alongside Parabola's Iceweasel. Also, it may be useful for those that uses certainly ancient PC's that the Intel i915 driver is starting to ditch out the extraofficial OpenGL 3.1 support for the Intel GMA 3000 series, so I'll be testing in a VM Trisquel 12 in order to bring them feedback around that version (actually, I'm using in my netbook Trisquel 11.0.1 and the Abrowser 140.0.4 seems solid in terms of light browsing from my netbook).
In the past I would say its good its not in repos, but now that they are actually keeping it up to date, I think it should be in repos.