Subj : LibreWolf ?
To   : Mike Powell
From : Tanausu M.
Date : Wed Jan 07 2026 20:24:29


Hello Mike!

07 Jan 26 11:03, you wrote to all:

 MP> Has anyone else tried out LibreWolf as an alternative to Firefox?

 MP> It is billed as a more secure version of FF and is based off of the
 MP> most recent code.  I read a brief review about it and decided to try
 MP> it out.

 MP> The review was mostly about the security features... how a lot of
 MP> options that are not automatically defaulted to ON in FF are in LW.

 MP> I mention that because I found that LW had some issues.  I have a lot
 MP> of bookmarks in FF.  LW offered to import bookmarks from a previous
 MP> browser but was only able to find chromium, which I have installed but
 MP> only use on sites that don't work with FF.  I thought that was odd
 MP> that a FF derivative didn't know where to find the FF info on a debian
 MP> box.

 MP> So then I tried the "import from HTML file" option.  That did not work
 MP> at all, and LW provided no error message as to why it was not able to
 MP> import the file... it was able to open it as a page so it was there
 MP> and was HTML.

 MP> I opened a private window and went to a couple of sites that require a
 MP> logon.  LW didn't behave as I would expect there, either... this could
 MP> be a settings issue, though, but it didn't even ask if I wanted the
 MP> password saved or not.  It seemed completely unaware that I was
 MP> logging into the websites.

 MP> I might try it out again sometime but, for now, it has been apt
 MP> removed.

 MP> Mike

I didn't know that, and I'm not very familiar with web browsers, apart
from the usual ones.

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