I don't think it was there until I enabled firefox sync. I'd like to remove what is inside the red box. Does anyone know how to do that?
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Doesn't it also turn on stuff like aggressive fingerprint protection (which provides more protection against fingerprinting, but also breaks more and more important stuff).
Yes, these additional settings are turned on by default. If you find they interfere with your browser experience you can turn them off to bring things back to near-stock firefox.
I've yet to find anything that it broke after weeks of use... and anyway it takes two seconds to disable that for a few mins in the rare event it's necessary.
Overall an unambiguously better internet experience on LibreWolf coming from years of FireFox for me.
I mean, that's the thing, isn't it? It's easy to turn off if you know that and what you need to turn off. Literally on this same page there's someone mentioning they keep getting logged out, which is because Librewolf clears cookies on exit - which of course was completely reasonable for them not to know. So it feels like "it's exactly the same as Firefox" is setting the wrong expectations.
I didn't say it was exactly the same as FF, I said it immediately improved my experience of the Internet
Auto logouts are IMHO better for society. Putting friction between users and addictive algorithms is a simple way to encourage healthier and more mindful habits. It also encourages better security education
If people have questions like this it's a good thing. It will make them aware of how much privacy they are giving up so they have to make intentional choices about how they design their digital life
Capitalists have really ruined the culture of UX by making it all about what's good for keeping people hooked & helpless rather than what's in our collective best interests
Yeah I know you didn't, but we're in a comment thread that started with
That's why I responded to check whether it doesn't change a bunch of stuff as well that might catch people off-guard if they expected the same experience.
do you happen to know a fork that doesn't do that? A Firefox exactly the same but without mozilla's BS is what I'm looking for.
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You can just disable it.
There's also Floorp which you could check out. I'm not sure how aggressive it is.
Not really, and the reason is that everyone disagrees on what "Mozilla's BS" is - e.g. some say not enabling full protection is BS. Some say it's fine for Mozilla to know what hardware Firefox crashes most on, some say it's none of its business.
But honestly, it's possible to disable almost everything you don't like in Firefox, and it's usually just a toggle. So I think the easiest option is to just do that whenever you run into something you don't like. The alternative is doing it the other way around, i.e. starting with e.g. Librewolf and then undoing their tweaks if you don't like them, but it's harder to know what tweak is responsible for breaking a website you use, for example.