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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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Hi all, just a simple question: Why Librewolf is not packaged in Debian? It's a pity I have to add external repos or run the appimage. Cheers!

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[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could also use deb-get (really helpful tool btw) to get it Although in the case of Librewolf it just automates adding the repos, I think...

[–] franzpow 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I cannot find it using deb-get?

[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"deb-get list" shows all that are available. Perhaps not available for your Distro? What are you running?

[–] franzpow 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using debian testing I wrote deb-get librewolf but it says it cannot find it

[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"sudo deb-get install librewolf" ?

I am using Debian 11 and recent Ubuntu.

[–] franzpow 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will it mess with my debian repos?

[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lt will add the fitting Librewolf repo and will use regular apt for updates.

[–] franzpow 1 points 1 year ago

In that case I prefer using the appimage. The only thing is that I have to manually update it or use some tool. It would be cool if deb-get would fetch the .deb file from the repo without adding repos to my sources.list file and managing your deb files obtained that way automatically like apt

[–] saf@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@franzpow @Rexelpitlum I installed librewolf on bookworm using the NixOS package manager. Here is a link: https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=librewolf

[–] Apan@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@franzpow Could it be that a browser need to be uptodate or ESR to be secure. Librewolf doesn't to my knowledge provide an ESR version. Does Debian keep the other browsers uptodate, most software in Debian is the version of the time of the release. But I suppose browsers are an exception?

[–] franzpow 1 points 1 year ago

Afaik there are also browsers like linxs that are not ESR

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