Switching from Firefox to LibreWolf So far, it has looked like this for me: 1) Install LibreWolf: https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/ 2) Find your Firefox profile: In Firefox, menu / Help / Mor
from neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk to firefox@fedia.io on 27 Feb 2025 08:34
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Switching from Firefox to LibreWolf

So far, it has looked like this for me:

1) Install LibreWolf: https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/

2) Find your Firefox profile: In Firefox, menu / Help / More Troubleshooting Information / Profile Directory.

3) Copy Firefox profile to LibreWolf dir: cp -r /home/neil/.mozilla/firefox/b92lfaht.default-release-1 /home/neil/.librewolf/)

4) Edit LibreWolf's profiles.ini to use the newly-copied profile

5) Restart LibreWolf

6) Start testing

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pre@boing.world on 27 Feb 2025 08:43 collapse

@neil I've been finding it mostly okay. When sites don't work it often just needs the setting for allowing canvas-drawing to be turned on for that site.

But that ain't enough for some of the more commercial sites. Supermarket sites don't work. Payments failing is more common. I find myself still launching Firefox when I know a payment is gonna be at the end of the transaction.

I presume this is mostly sites doing evil stuff that Librewolf is blocking for me.

kbal@fedia.io on 27 Feb 2025 14:50 collapse

In the past few years I've found it increasingly necessary to have a separate profile for use with the most ridiculously dysfunctional sites including supermarkets. Then you can turn on whatever nonsense they need without compromising your main browser session.

Make a shortcut to open a browser window for that profile with "-P insecure" or whatever, and get in the habit of opening problematic urls with that. Or just keep using Firefox for it as you've been doing. It's slightly annoying but such is the state of the web in 2025.

pre@boing.world on 27 Feb 2025 14:59 collapse

@kbal Is that with Librewolf, or with Firefox? Not sure if there's anything I can turn on/off in a profile in Librewolf to make it accept the site's dodgy practices.

Already using a lot of account-containers with both.

mensrea@freeradical.zone on 28 Feb 2025 08:36 collapse