I’ve never seen any website cause a firewall permission request
Word of caution, if you have been browsing successfully until now, it could be a malicious javascript app or malware loaded from that website that is attempting to scan your network or do other things. In other words if this is a new firewall request above and beyond the standard one librewolf needs to function, proceed with cation.
Could you also proceed with anion?
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That’s what I’m thinking, it happened when i tried to load their streaming player for the first time which historically have pop unders on streaming websites
Assuming you’ve gotten LibreWolf from a proper, verified source (GitHub, package manager like chocolatey), then there shouldn’t be any issues.
But, to be on the safe side, check out your extensions and also plugins to verify nothing untowards has snuck it’s way on to your system.
You could of course go into the Windows firewall, note what permissions LibreWolf has, then allow it and check again to see what was added.
But, chances are, LibreWolf (don’t use it myself) asked to access either magnet links or other ports other than 443 or 80. If LibreWolf has built-in torrent support or you’ve installed an extension that does, it will require some other ports to function.
I got it from chocolately.
Wait why accept the permission? I don’t really want to risk it installing something I don’t notice
It’s a firewall access prompt. In true MS fashion it won’t tell you what ports it is opening.
So by accepting you’re not giving the app any permissions like say read-write permission or administrative access, but if the app should have access to a port on the network.
Standard ports for the web are 443 (HTTPS, TCP) and 80 (HTTP, TCP). Torrents use other ports and a combination of TCP and UDP packets.
Search for “firewall” in the start menu. The firewall manager shows you all the ports an IPs that are allowed or blocked, along with ports and protocols.
Seems as safe as mostly any public torrent site to me. Use ublock and it should be fine, provided you aren’t downloading and running a random .exe labelled as Avatar 3 or something