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It does indeed look superior. But getting the 2nd most important software on my PC from a group of randos with not even full names and God knows what level of o

It does indeed look superior. But getting the 2nd most important software on my PC from a group of randos with not even full names and God knows what level of opsec is just too scary even for me. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a build enviroment for LibreWolf myself but that would still require auditing the patches and their changes as they come in every day.

solarkraft 3y ago
Do you mean they keep patching stuff? What's the problem with tracking their patches a bit more slowly?
- no_time 3y ago
  Eh. It might be fine until it isn't. One build system breakage and you are looking at an afternoon of fiddling if you are like me. (not much experience in C++ and it's tooling)
kuroguro 3y ago
> from a group of randos with not even full names Somehow I'd trust a group of randos more than most corporations
- no_time 3y ago
  For most things, me too. I have no qualms about running a keygen for example. It doesn't get updated, doesn't reach out to the internet, and has a tiny set of functionality. But a browser is none of these. If one of the devs gets their machine hacked, a trojanized build can reach you in mere seconds if you are unlucky enough to start your browser shortly after the build pipeline gets infected.
- zorrolovsky 3y ago
  Me too... and this illustrates the sad state of the internet in 2023. Let's keep hope that things improve somehow in the future!
50 3y ago
the librewolf maintainers are trustworthy - i know user fxbrit, the librewolf macos maintainer, is also, if i'm not mistaken, the macos maintainer of mullvad browser, the browser collaboration between mullvad vpn and tor further reading, for anyone looking for an alt browser/config: arkenfox (af) v librewolf (lw) v mullvad browser (mb) from the af owner, mb maintainer, and lw, ff, & tor contributor: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecomment-1495998714 https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...

solarkraft 3y ago

Do you mean they keep patching stuff? What's the problem with tracking their patches a bit more slowly?

no_time 3y ago
Eh. It might be fine until it isn't. One build system breakage and you are looking at an afternoon of fiddling if you are like me. (not much experience in C++ and it's tooling)

kuroguro 3y ago

> from a group of randos with not even full names Somehow I'd trust a group of randos more than most corporations

no_time 3y ago
For most things, me too. I have no qualms about running a keygen for example. It doesn't get updated, doesn't reach out to the internet, and has a tiny set of functionality. But a browser is none of these. If one of the devs gets their machine hacked, a trojanized build can reach you in mere seconds if you are unlucky enough to start your browser shortly after the build pipeline gets infected.
zorrolovsky 3y ago
Me too... and this illustrates the sad state of the internet in 2023. Let's keep hope that things improve somehow in the future!

50 3y ago

the librewolf maintainers are trustworthy - i know user fxbrit, the librewolf macos maintainer, is also, if i'm not mistaken, the macos maintainer of mullvad browser, the browser collaboration between mullvad vpn and tor further reading, for anyone looking for an alt browser/config: arkenfox (af) v librewolf (lw) v mullvad browser (mb) from the af owner, mb maintainer, and lw, ff, & tor contributor: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecomment-1495998714 https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...