How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

I just switched to Librewolf over this terms fiasco.

It's not because I feel like Firefox has suddenly gone to hell or will sell all my data now; as Louis Rossman points out on his video on the subject, very little is actually changing, and it is mostly that Mozilla screwed up so hard in how they phrased and communicated this update.

But at this point, it's death by a thousand cuts.

Installing Firefox has, over the years, started to feel like the tiresome debloating and privacy configuration I used to have to do with a Windows 10 install, before I ditched Windows for Linux.

Disable studies. Disable interaction data. Set a non-google search engine. Doge 'pocket' trying to get me to make an account. Get rid of all that sponsored content on the default new tab.

After you've done that it's fine.... but you have to keep your eyes open for what new bullshit they will inevitably roll out, and try to turn on by default, and work out how to get rid of it.

And that's just stressful. It's not what I want. I want to use something that behaves by default in a privacy-respecting way right out of the box. And even more importantly, I want to trust that it won't pull the rug on me in future, and quietly sneak some anti-feature into my experience that I didn't want and didn't ask for.

So hello, LibreWolf. It's good to be here :)

I can't find a clear answer to one question; what about Android?

I use Fennec on Android, will Ironfox have a f-droid repo ?

Just made the move myself. So far, I find it infuriating that I have to use the mouse to open a new tab in a container. Other than that, it's fine. Not sure how I feel about the w*****s user agent.