https://paapereira.xyz/tags/librewolf/Recent content in LibreWolf on paapereira.xyzHugoen-US<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>©</a> 2008-2026 / <a href='https://gitlab.com/paapereira/paapereira.gitlab.io' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>source code</a>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:14:08 +0000https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2021/02/profile-sync-daemon-librewolf/Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:14:08 +0000https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2021/02/profile-sync-daemon-librewolf/<p>I talked about <a href="https://paapereira.xyz/posts/librewolf/">LibreWolf</a> last month, and how I made <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/profile-sync-daemon">profile-sync-daemon</a> work.</p> <p>The way I did made Firefox stop working, so this is the better way.</p> <p>Fixing what I did and set it correctly:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo mv /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox_bck /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">2</span><span>sudo cp /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox /usr/share/psd/browsers/librewolf </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Replacing <code>.mozilla/firefox</code> with <code>.librewolf</code> in <code>/usr/share/psd/browsers/librewolf</code> and restart <code>psd</code>.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo vi /usr/share/psd/browsers/librewolf </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">2</span><span>systemctl --user stop psd.service </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">3</span><span>systemctl --user start psd.service </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">4</span><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">5</span><span>psd p </span></span></code></pre></div>https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2021/01/librewolf/Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:33:53 +0000https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2021/01/librewolf/<p><em><a href="https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/">LibreWolf</a> is a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.</em></p> <p>I&rsquo;ve been trying it out and so far so good. It&rsquo;s basically Firefox, but with out of the box enhanced security and without Mozilla telemetries, Pockets and stuffs.</p> <h2 id="installing">Installing</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>paru -S librewolf-bin </span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="set-librewolf-as-the-default-browser">Set LibreWolf as the default browser</h2> <p>I&rsquo;m using i3-gaps.</p> <p>I need to change my <code>.profile</code>.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>vi .profile </span></span></code></pre></div><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>export BROWSER=&#34;/usr/bin/librewolf&#34; </span></span></code></pre></div><p>And replace <code>firefox</code> with <code>librewolf</code> in the <code>mimeapps.list</code> file.</p>