I was one of the two guys who came up with the original concept for Librefox.
I was responsible for including uBO as default, among other things.
Great to see that the project was brought back to life as LibreWolf - Mozilla lawyers had threatened us with legal action because the name was too close to their brand. They expected us to drop the "Fox" part of the name.
Everytime I see LibreWolf on HN I feel proud that the spirit of Librefox is still alive.
The biggest issue with LibreWolf and what's stopping it's further adoption is lack of auto-updates (especially on Windows) and lack of usability - it should work out of the box for everyone. Currently the security settings are too strict in default mode. There should be different levels of pre-configured security levels users can chose in the settings (i.e. "standard", "strict", "very strict").
(I don't use HN for commenting, which is why I created a throwaway account)
I was responsible for including uBO as default, among other things.
Great to see that the project was brought back to life as LibreWolf - Mozilla lawyers had threatened us with legal action because the name was too close to their brand. They expected us to drop the "Fox" part of the name.
Everytime I see LibreWolf on HN I feel proud that the spirit of Librefox is still alive.
The biggest issue with LibreWolf and what's stopping it's further adoption is lack of auto-updates (especially on Windows) and lack of usability - it should work out of the box for everyone. Currently the security settings are too strict in default mode. There should be different levels of pre-configured security levels users can chose in the settings (i.e. "standard", "strict", "very strict").
(I don't use HN for commenting, which is why I created a throwaway account)