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Moved from Firefox Dev Edition to Librewolf. No deal breakers yet. Procedure to transfer over painlessly: Install and run Librewolf. On both browsers go Help >

Moved from Firefox Dev Edition to Librewolf. No deal breakers yet. Procedure to transfer over painlessly: Install and run Librewolf. On both browsers go Help > More troubleshooting information > profile folder > Open. Close both browsers. Delete everything inside the librewolf profile. Copy everything from Firefox Dev profile directory into Librewolf profile directory. Run Librewolf with "--allow-downgrade" once. First run was a tad slow with extensions doing some 'recombobulation'. You can now run Librewolf normally without the above allow downgrade option. Enjoy. per-site zoom and auto-dark detection disabled unless about:config > privacy.resistFingerprinting set to false

xeonmc 2y ago
Is it possible to keep resist fingerprint enabled and only add an exception for dark mode?
- TheWoodsy 2y ago
  Dark mode will be remembered if cookies are remembered. Resist blocks the website from knowing if your OS is light/dark so auto-dark/light, will be disabled unless resist is disabled. It's all better explained at https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-downsides-of-rfp-resist-fingerprinting https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-dow... Having a look at about:config and searching 'resist' exposes a few other interesting options to customise like whitelisting etc.
- mzajc 2y ago
  Yes, set privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides='+AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme', set privacy.fingerprintingProtection='true', and set privacy.resistFingerprinting='false'. As far as I know, privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.fingerprintingProtection behave the same with these overrides (minus enforced light mode), but I haven't found much documentation on this, so please let me know if they don't.
nickthegreek 2y ago
When I installed LibreWolf via the Microsoft App Store (to easy auto updates) it would not let me into a profile file. It would state a directory in the dialog. I would try to then manually go to the directory and it would not exist. I don’t know if that was a result of a sandbox AppStore design or what. Anyway, I uninstalled and am trying Zen out. So far, so good and it has vertical tabs like I used Sidebery for in FF.

xeonmc 2y ago

Is it possible to keep resist fingerprint enabled and only add an exception for dark mode?

TheWoodsy 2y ago
Dark mode will be remembered if cookies are remembered. Resist blocks the website from knowing if your OS is light/dark so auto-dark/light, will be disabled unless resist is disabled. It's all better explained at https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-downsides-of-rfp-resist-fingerprinting https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-dow... Having a look at about:config and searching 'resist' exposes a few other interesting options to customise like whitelisting etc.
mzajc 2y ago
Yes, set privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides='+AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme', set privacy.fingerprintingProtection='true', and set privacy.resistFingerprinting='false'. As far as I know, privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.fingerprintingProtection behave the same with these overrides (minus enforced light mode), but I haven't found much documentation on this, so please let me know if they don't.

nickthegreek 2y ago

When I installed LibreWolf via the Microsoft App Store (to easy auto updates) it would not let me into a profile file. It would state a directory in the dialog. I would try to then manually go to the directory and it would not exist. I don’t know if that was a result of a sandbox AppStore design or what. Anyway, I uninstalled and am trying Zen out. So far, so good and it has vertical tabs like I used Sidebery for in FF.