[artix-general] galaxy/librewolf 137.0-1 build released issues?

[Javier]

On 2025-04-04 02:31 PM, artist wrote:
> Librewolf is currently completely broken:
> 
>    https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2400
> 
> Even worse; the - single? - dev has no idea about the cause not how to fix it.
> This is symptomatic for what I've noticed over the past year or more, and this might even result in librewolf being dropped from our supported repo's.
> 
> The general advice is to not use firefox (due to the changes in their TOS), nor librewolf.
> 
> Currently Waterfox - firefox based - seems to be a good replacement.
> 
> And available in the omniverse repo are the Zen browser (firefox based) and Ungoogled Chromium.
> 
> artist

Thanks a lot @artist.  Unfortunately those suggestions don't get close regarding privacy to what Librewolf offers (which for a while is not at the same level it used to be, but still much better than the alternatives), like using some of the arkenfox user config.  If not the arkenfox one, which has been the golden user config privacy wide for some time now, then there's the phoenix similar one (not sure why not offering joint efforts between the two).  But none of the alternatives advertise using any of those.  I don't like using chromium based browsers at all, I do have ungoogle-chromium installed just for when something work related only works on chromium based browsers, which is the reason I really don't like such browsers in the first place (web developers thinking only chromium based stuff and compatible exist), but it's not privacy focused, it's just de-googled.  Librewolf also get rid of some few binaries like pocket, and I believe it's getting rid of AI stuff not just by disabling on config, though I haven't had the time to check what they exclude from their builds, but I really like that some things are even not present in Librewolf by build.

That said, from the issue you showed, I still like Libre transparency, so I'll give them some time to figure that one, or use their workaround.  I didn't know they were using ~/.mozilla instead of ~/.librewolf, perhaps I didn't lose a thing.  I'll try out.  I read that the AUR package include the workaround, or may include it, don't know, that removes the possibility of using FF and Librewolf at the same time, but I don't even have FF installed.

If Librewolf went away, then I don't know, it sounds like FF + arkenfox, or FF + phoenix would be even more private than waterforx and the zen browser, though I didn't look in depth those two...

Hopefully Artix gives Librewolf a chance to improve.  For now I understand what the issue is.

Thanks a lot !

-- 
Javier