Introducing LibreWolf: A Privacy-Centric Firefox Fork
LibreWolf is an independent fork of Mozilla Firefox, championing digital privacy, security, and user autonomy. Serving as the community-run successor to LibreFox, LibreWolf is developed with a focus on enhancing user controls and reducing intrusive data collection.
Enhanced Protection Against Tracking
This browser aims to bolster defenses against tracking and fingerprinting technologies. LibreWolf integrates a suite of privacy-oriented settings and custom patches that not only enhance security but also eliminate common annoyances associated with user tracking. Notably, all telemetry and data collection features have been stripped away, along with restrictions like Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Key Features of LibreWolf
- Updated Firefox Base: Built from the latest stable release of Firefox, users benefit from the most recent features and crucial security updates.
- Standalone Build: LibreWolf operates independently of Firefox, maintaining a unique settings environment, profile folders, and installation paths, allowing it to coexist with any existing browsers.
- No Telemetry: All embedded server links and background calling functions have been removed, ensuring minimal connectivity by default.
- User Customization: Frequent updates to user-configurable settings enhance personal browsing preferences.
- Extension Firewall: Administrators can restrict internet access for specific extensions.
- Multi-Platform Support: Available on Windows, Linux, Mac, and soon Android devices.
- Community Engagement: LibreWolf is driven by community contributions and feedback.
- Dark Theme Options: Users can choose between classic and advanced dark modes.
Privacy Features You Can Trust
- Automatically delete cookies and site data upon closure.
- Utilize only privacy-respecting search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Searx.
- Pre-installed uBlockOrigin with customized filter lists to block trackers and advertisements in strict mode.
- Capability to strip tracking elements from URLs via both native methods and uBlockOrigin.
- Adopt Enhanced Tracking Protection with dFPI (Total Cookie Protection).
- Implement Resilient Fingerprinting Protection (RFP), a feature from the Tor Uplift project aimed at standardizing user identities to thwart fingerprinting.
- Display an en-US language preference to websites, safeguarding the browser and OS’s language identity.
- Disable WebGL to prevent fingerprinting attempts.
- Restrict access to the operating system’s location services, opting for Mozilla’s location API over Google’s.
- Limit ICE candidates in video/audio sharing during videoconferences to enhance privacy.
- Force DNS and WebRTC traffic through the configured proxy for added security.
- Truncate cross-origin referrers to omit full URIs.
- Disable link prefetching and speculative connections to reduce tracking surfaces.
- Clear temporary files and disable disk caching upon exit.
- Turn off form autofill and history tracking for a more private experience.…and many more features.
Get Started with LibreWolf
To experience LibreWolf and take control of your browsing privacy, download the appropriate version below:
- LibreWolf 64-bit Setup | Portable 64-bit (~100.0 MB)
- LibreWolf 32-bit Setup | Portable 32-bit
- View installation options for other operating systems
Connect and Learn More
For further resources and to engage with the community, check out the following links:
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