Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting

https://lemmus.org/post/20820090

F*** I really dont want to change away from Firefox. Pleas be good Firefox. Please! Don’t F this up.
Librewolf is exactly the same browser with all the security features dialed to 11 and all the AI removed.
And it breaks sooo many sites.
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It might be easier to soften Librewolf than harden Firefox, but fair point.

If you’re a relatively normal user and you still want to use LibreWolf, I would recommend:

  • disable fingerprinting
  • not clearing history on exit

Most of this is easy to find, especially thanks to the LibreWolf menu

Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.

I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

It broke youtube for me yesterday and mind you I’m a web developer and I didn’t know what broke it exactly to turn it on/off.

It fixed it self today though.

That was almost certainly YouTube breaking itself. They do a lot of public A-B testing without notifying the user of anything, even if it could break functionality.

The chances of Librewolf breaking, and updating in 24 hours is basically zero. Especially if you’re on Windows since it doesn’t update itself, you have to choose to install the separate updater application when you install Librewolf, otherwise it just doesn’t update.

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/librewolf-winupdater

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

How often do you update LibreWolf?

LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.

It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.

librewolf-winupdater

An attempt to make (automatic) updating of LibreWolf for Windows much easier (<a href="https://github.com/ltguillaume/librewolf-winupdater">mirror on GitHub</a>). Can be used for installed and <a href="https://codeberg.org/ltguillaume/librewolf-portable">portable instances</a>. There's also the f...

Codeberg.org

Yeah I agree it was probably a/b testing since I use ublock origin as well so I’m use to this kind of stuff.

But the point I’m trying to make that I didn’t know at that time librewolf would have settings turned on that could break some websites.