LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
I’ve been trying it out and so far so good. It’s basically Firefox, but with out of the box enhanced security and without Mozilla telemetries, Pockets and stuffs.
Installing
paru -S librewolf-bin
Set LibreWolf as the default browser
I’m using i3-gaps.
I need to change my .profile.
vi .profile
export BROWSER="/usr/bin/librewolf"
And replace firefox with librewolf in the mimeapps.list file.
vi .config/mimeapps.list
Using Profile-sync-daemon
profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage browser profile(s) in tmpfs and to periodically sync back to the physical disc.
»» UPDATE: Check an updated setup of psd here.
I’ve been using psd so improve Firefox performance. It doesn’t come with out of the box support for LibreWolf, but you can use the Firefox config as a dropin to LibreWolf.
Just replace .mozilla/firefox with .librewolf in /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox.
sudo cp /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox_bck
sudo vi /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox
And restart psd.service.
systemctl --user restart psd.service
You can check if it’s pointing to the right direction with:
psd p
Check the Arch Linux Wiki for more about psd.