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Best to switch to Firefox anyways, or even better privacy enhanced LibreWolf
This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom. LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.
LibreWolf
Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?
They usually don’t have marketing departments or focus groups.
You obviously don’t need those to come up with a good name; just some taste. Signal is a great example. Ladybird and Servo are good browser names if you want to stick to that. LibreWolf? Jesus, come on guys. Forgejo is another terrible name I heard recently. Apparently it’s Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.
Apparently it’s Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.
God forbid some non-anglophone culture enters our collective consciousness.
You don’t have to use the exact same naming scheme. But even if you did it’s pretty trivial to come up with better names. I bet even ChatGPT can do it. Here’s the list it came up with for me:
- Thunderwolf
- Breezefalcon
- Stonehawk
- Blazeleopard
- Rainlynx
- Frostowl
- Lightningpanther
- Shadowraven
- Solarfox
- Cloudtiger
Ok most are pretty trash but Stonehawk is good. Maybe Thunderwolf. Still better than LibreWolf.
everyone could do it
…proceeds to not do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You don’t think Stonehawk is a better name than LibreWolf? Kind of proving my point there.
No, I don’t, does that also prove your point?
the largest problem with librewolf is the difficult pronunciation, I think, just as with forgejo. stonehawk is easy, as is not a terrible name either. maybe “stone” is not terribly interesting, though. but it still seems to be an improvement for me.
what is your take on it? why do you think it’s not better?
don’t sleep on frost owl. Owl heads are kind of round so it would make a good icon.
As someone who doesn’t mind this name, what makes it bad?
EDIT: Someone below said difficult pronunciation. So talking about it in real life would be difficult.
It also might be relevant that I am very bad at naming things myself.
Difficult pronunciation and it also sounds like a lame “cool” name that a super nerd would think of.
There’s a MV3 alternate (same dev!) “uBlock Origin Lite” which this article completely misses out on mentioning: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
There are certain websites and tools which need chrome/chromium making it a necessary evil; for example there’s a new trend in firmware flashing of devices like ESP32 boards and HAM/GMRS radios which are web based and use Chrome tech. This new MV3 fork isn’t as good as the original but it’s better than nothing and does stop some ad trash.
Unless your firmware flasher is serving ads, and I really hope it isn’t, there’s no issue using chtome for things like that. Just use Firefox for everything else. It blocks more than just some ad trash. And you can have 2 browsers installed at the same time. They don’t fight each other.
why would you want a browser based firmware flasher? the web browser should surely not deal with hardware. you don’t even get to know if the flashing code has changed, or verify it in Any way
I have already hated the grapheneos web flasher, even if its just made for those for whom themost basic computer terms area dufficult task, like download this file, type cmd into the start menu, press enter, paste this
commandtext, press enter. but it could have been solved with a most simple gui executable too!
Googles: “how to purge google from memory”
Everyone: Install Librewolf and Linux🌻
We’ve just been told yesterday that to reduce our attack surface, only Edge will be allowed on our workstations. Reasoning is that it’s difficult to make sure everyone is properly updates their browser, and since Edge is handled by windows updates, it’s easier to monitor proper updates.
While I understand that reasoning, the tradeoff between pretty small risk reduction associated with unlikely attack surface from different browsers, and the massive drop in employee satisfaction, is simply not worth it.
Good thing I already stopped using chrome since about a year ag