I'm Proud of My Setup on LibreWolf
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Previously…
In the last video, I talked about how I switched out from Firefox once again and chose LibreWolf as my primary web browser. In this video, I’ll walk you through my high-level setup on LibreWolf, which includes settings and web extensions I chose to make it my daily driver.
Basic Configuration
As LibreWolf isn’t available on Void Linux repos, I installed it from Flathub. There’s not a lot to configure, actually.
- Unchecking “Delete cookies and site data when LibreWolf is closed” to make it persist website login information across browser sessions
- Setting Brave Search as the search engine
- Customizing the toolbar
- Switching to Vertical Tabs
- Creating tab containers
- Installing web extensions, which we’ll talk about in just a moment
- Configuring some behavior around tab cycling
- And finally, setting up the containers with the appropriate websites logged in for use
Extensions
My setup only needs nine web extensions at the moment, and it may change as I optimize my web browsing workflow.
1. uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin comes pre-installed with LibreWolf, and there’s nothing to do there.
2. Spoof Timezone
Given how LibreWolf protects you against fingerprinting, it doesn’t even use the system timezone. This means all websites you view will treat you like you’re in UTC. I found that people recommend Spoof Timezone, which lets you override the browser timezone at the expense of some fingerprinting.
3. Dark Reader
Another thing LibreWolf blocks for fingerprinting is dark mode. Thankfully, Dark Reader can help you with that by overriding color themes either on all websites or only on the ones you need to.
4. KeePassXC-Browser
KeePassXC-Browser brings my passwords into the browser through this encrypted password vault. The only challenge is that LibreWolf isn’t listed in one of the supported browsers for integration, so there are a couple of extra steps that you need to manually perform to create the handshake.
5. Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io helps me maintain my web browser extensions just as it did on Firefox and Brave before.
6. Temporary Containers
I mentioned Temporary Containers in the last video, and it is pretty easy to get used to it because it creates a temporary sandbox for every newly opened tab, so you can practically have an unlimited number of individually separate private tabs right next to your other regular tabs.
7. Grammarly
Grammarly extension would be a little bit of a privacy invasion, but I use it as a second pair of eyes and a brain to point out the obvious typos and grammatical errors in my input fields.
8. Emoji
Emoji is an extension that provides easy access to hundreds of emojis when I need to be expressive on the web.
9. Tab Renamer
Finally, now that I can have unlimited private tabs with the same name, Tab Renamer helps me keep sane by giving them sensible and readable names.
Conclusion
So overall, in exchange for a tiny bit of convenience, I received a browser setup that is more than what I could have asked for. I’m still looking for a Android equivalent for LibreWolf, and there are quite a lot of options to choose from.
Outro
That's all that I have for this video. Thanks for watching it till the end, may the maker watch over you, see you in the next video!