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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike


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Hey Dumas!

On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:03:50 -0500, you wrote:

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

Never heard of it, but I looked it up and the first screenshot I saw looked /exactly/ like Firefox.

I think I'll just enable/disable what I want in the original product, and use add-ons that work.

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

I wonder, how it is more secure? Do they just include the popular security add-ons that are available for Firefox in their version? I use uBlock Origin here with my Firefox, and there's really nothing that disappoints me about it. Heck, I haven't even run into any sites that don't work in quite some time.

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

I'll pass, but thank you for the forewarning and heads up. I pulled up the site to check it out, finished reading your post, and closed the window without reading anything. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Wed Jan 07 2026 11:03 am

Has anyone else tried out LibreWolf
an alternative to Firefox?

Yeah, I use this browser. Not really
for any particular reason other than I
needed a separate browser from my
regular FireFox and I didn't what
Chromium. It is basically FireFox with
a whole bunch of things either enabled
or disabled for the paranoid. For
instance, it will always tell websites
that you are UTC, and not your local
timezone. It will by default not ask to
save passwords or anything like that.
For me, it puts all the regular
settings exactly like I do, but then it
does a few more in the secret/advanced
settings for the extra-paranoid. Also I
believe it comes with uBlock Origin
pre-installed.

If you're me, and you don't feel like
going through all the Firefox settings,
then use LibreWolf.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Wed Jan 07 2026 11:03 am

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

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

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

i tried it. it's nothing special. go with brave.
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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Wed Jan 07 2026 11:03 am

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

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

Since it's essentially Firefox, I found that there were no problems with moving absolutely everything over to LF if you copy your Firefox profile data over to LF. Works like a charm.

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

I'll pass, but thank you for the forewarning and heads up. I pulled up the sit
to check it out, finished reading your post, and closed the window without reading anything. ;)

Sounds like a good choice. ;)


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

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

Since it's essentially Firefox, I found that there were no problems with movin
absolutely everything over to LF if you copy your Firefox profile data over to
LF. Works like a charm.

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

If you copy over all your profile data manually, aren't you also copying
over all of the FF security settings, defeating the purpose of LF's
supposedly more-secure defaults?


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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Thu Jan 08 2026 10:31 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

If you copy over all your profile data manually, aren't you also copying over all of the FF security settings, defeating the purpose of LF's supposedly more-secure defaults?

No, I don't believe defaults get modified. If you've modified settings in about:config, then they should be there.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: The Wanderer to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 08 2026 04:52 pm

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Thu Jan 08 2026 10:31 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

If you copy over all your profile data manually, aren't you also
copying over all of the FF security settings, defeating the purpose
of LF's supposedly more-secure defaults?

No, I don't believe defaults get modified. If you've modified
settings in about:config, then they should be there.

you should have used the import feature.
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So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

How did you know which folders to copy over?

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the Chromium
info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and do the same?


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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Fri Jan 09 2026 10:58 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

How did you know which folders to copy over?

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the
Chromium info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and
do the same?

honestly I don't know why people use firefox. it has a bad history of being shitty and a memory hog. also they canceled one of their founders because he donated to something that was anti gay marriage.

i guess you'd have to import your ff to chrome and then import it again into librewolf. but librewolf isn't really worth using. it says it focuses on privacy but you can just get a few good addons and use it with regular ff or just use chrome edge brave or opera.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Fri Jan 09 2026 10:58 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

How did you know which folders to copy over?

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the
Chromium info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and
do the same?

[userprofile]AppData\Local Settings\Mozilla\Firefox
are where the files are
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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Thu Jan 08 2026 08:04 pm

you should have used the import feature.

Why, when copying a profile folder managed everything in one go?

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Fri Jan 09 2026 10:58 am

How did you know which folders to copy over?

The profile folders on Linux are in ~/.mozilla/firefox/somecode.ProfileName, so moving whichever profile you wish to ~/.librewolf/ is pretty straightforward.

On Windows it's somewhere in your appdata.

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the Chromium info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and do the same?

I suspect Firefox & Firefox derivatives aren't likely looking for Firefox data to import.

If you use use Firefox sync, that's an easy way to do it, too. Do the sync login on Librewolf and things should show up.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: The Wanderer to MRO on Sat Jan 10 2026 09:42 am

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Thu Jan 08 2026 08:04 pm

you should have used the import feature.

Why, when copying a profile folder managed everything in one go?

because when it works, it works.
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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Sat Jan 10 2026 07:42 pm

because when it works, it works.

It appears that the import doesn't really exist for Firefox to Librewolf.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: The Wanderer to MRO on Sun Jan 11 2026 08:20 am

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Sat Jan 10 2026 07:42 pm

because when it works, it works.

It appears that the import doesn't really exist for Firefox to
Librewolf.

it's a browser dude. it's not that hard. export your ff shit to chrome or
edge and then use librewolf to import that.

also you can recommend that the developers import ff's profile.

firefox sucks anyways,
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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Sun Jan 11 2026 06:27 pm

chrome or edge and then use librewolf to import that.

also you can recommend that the developers import ff's profile.

they say you can use FF sync to get your stuff imported.
they also said that it's in ff's code to not import from other ff builds and they can not change it. they have the source so don't know why they'd say that.
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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Wed Jan 07 2026 07:59 pm

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Wed Jan 07 2026 11:03 am

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

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

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

i tried it. it's nothing special. go with brave.

Brave? I tried that and didn't really like it. I thought that it was not the same as firefox. What were the issues that took you away from liking ff?
/s

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Fri Jan 09 2026 01:44 pm

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Fri Jan 09 2026 10:58 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

How did you know which folders to copy over?

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the
Chromium info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and
do the same?

honestly I don't know why people use firefox. it has a bad history of being shitty and a memory hog. also they canceled one of their founders because h donated to something that was anti gay marriage.

i guess you'd have to import your ff to chrome and then import it again into librewolf. but librewolf isn't really worth using. it says it focuses on privacy but you can just get a few good addons and use it with regular ff or just use chrome edge brave or opera.

.

I was not aware of this. I have not noticed any memory hogging from it.

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Fri Jan 09 2026 04:28 pm

Re: LibreWolf ?
By: Dumas Walker to THE WANDERER on Fri Jan 09 2026 10:58 am

So you had to copy all of that over manually?

Sure... I copied the contents of one folder to the new folder.

How did you know which folders to copy over?

This is part of my frustration with it. It was able to find the
Chromium info to import... why couldn't it find the firefox info and
do the same?

[userprofile]AppData\Local Settings\Mozilla\Firefox
are where the files are

You should try using this mac os i am on . Most frustrating thing in the world to use. I so prefer open source and libre systems /s

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Re: LibreWolf ?
By: MRO to The Wanderer on Sun Jan 11 2026 06:27 pm

it's a browser dude. it's not that hard. export your ff shit to chrome or edge and then use librewolf to import that.

That seems like a sane path compared to just copying a folder on the system?

You do you.

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