Package request: LibreWolf

[handow23]

A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

LibreWolf is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible. This is achieved through hundreds of privacy/security/performance settings and patches. Intrusive integrated addons including updater, crashreporter, and pocket are removed too

Project page: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

[ericonr]

This package is available as a Flatpak, and that's probably the best way of using it.

[pullmoll]

We have GNU icecat (a.k.a. gnuzilla) and won't add yet another fork of Firefox to the repository. It takes just too much man and machine power to maintain and build all the browsers.

[Piraty]

515, #2735, #11549, #23628, #23310, #4130,

[autoteelar]

We have GNU icecat (a.k.a. gnuzilla) and won't add yet another fork of Firefox to the repository. It takes just too much man and machine power to maintain and build all the browsers.

well, i tried but Package 'icecat' not found in repository pool.

librewolf i heard is better anyways, and well why be at least a little open about it? being so closed like that doesn't sound like an open source community to me, just because you don't want to maintain it doesn't mean someone else wont want to, and the fact theres multiple duplicate tickets open about it just means theres that much want for it it. and it seems 90% of people myself included abstain against using flatpaks aswell.

[q66]

icecat was dropped

in case of a large web browser it's not about someone from the community wanting to maintain it or not, it puts a load on the infrastructure, and forks in general fail to maintain their stuff well enough to keep a reasonable security track record

if you don't want to use the flatpak, that's your problem, not ours

[dko1905]

I disagree, Void Linux markets itself as a minimalist distro, that should be lightweight and small. But flatpaks don't fill these criteria. Void Linux forcing people to use bloated technology, is against what void stands to be. I agree that we shouldn't have all the Firefox forks, but we could at least have the most popular. Since the removal of GNU Icecat, there are no longer any Firefox forks. I would personally love to see LibreWolf on Void Linux.

[q66]

void does not market itself as a minimalist distro, that's just the minimalist crowd projecting their own views on it

[sgn]

Void Linux markets itself as a minimalist distro,

Citation Needed!

[autoteelar]

it doesn't even need to market itself, it literally is a minimalist distro

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[q66]

again, citation needed