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title: "On LibreWolf"
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date: 2024-10-01T22:11:03-07:00
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year: "2024"
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As I mentioned in my [previous post](/blog/2024/09/no-more-firefox/), I've been using LibreWolf as my daily driver browser. It's been about two weeks since then, and I had some thoughts.
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I originally tried to compile LibreWolf myself, which is how I found out 16GB of RAM is not enough to compile a web browser. I found this interesting since I was able to compile [Floorp](https://floorp.app/en) just fine a while back. Have browsers really gotten so complex over the past decade to require that much memory just to compile? Anyway, I just ended up installing the binary from the AUR and got up and running.
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One thing I really like is that new tab page is completely blank, except for a search bar. It helps me break the close reddit->new tab->open reddit cycle and generally just reduces distractions. I know this was configurable in Firefox, but having to set it up on every install meant I just stopped caring to do it after a while.
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Something I wish was possible is whitelisting certain sites to be able to use WebGL (and other things disabled by default as anti-fingerprinting measures), I can be pretty sure my self-hosted apps aren't fingerprinting me. I ended up disabling all of these measures because of this.
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Finally, I've really enjoyed not being logged in to everything all the time. Obviously clearing cookies is configurable on Firefox, but doing it by default is not something I thought I would enjoy. When I want to go waste time on Reddit or YouTube, logging in every time is too much of hassle so I just go back to what I was doing. It's a nice incentive to browse the smallweb instead!
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Overall, it's been a pretty pleasant experience, and I was surprised that I actually found benefits to LibreWolf over Firefox, I was expecting the two experiences to match pretty closely.
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