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Arrested for protesting, keeping their head down, or trying to live their life outside of mainstream capitalist society is my guess.

The left have been the targets of successive governments and vested interests, in most countries, for over 100 years. No wonder it's dead. Not to mention the infighting. Some of which I'm sure is natural but some of which will be instigated by those same governments and vested interests.

Ah, I see, you're a contrarian who just wants an argument. That's not really my bag so this will be my last message.

Yes, the likelihood of the average person downloading Librewolf is slim. Using or not using Librewolf doesn't make someone lazy. Not reading and toggling every setting in Firefox doesn't make someone lazy either.

You've just explained that to make Firefox secure you need to watch some video of someone that you hope knows what they're talking about. What if they miss something? What if they're talking shit? I know, shocking, people lying on the internet, but it happens.

Firefox is a big name browser used by many people of varying backgrounds and technical ability. It should be secure by default. It is not. Librewolf I recommended to anyone reading this thread, which is probably someone tech savvy enough to try a different browser. But not all people are that tech savvy.

The root issue is Firefox not being secure by default. If there was no profit motive for Mozilla it likely would be.

The problem is not laziness, that's what a nerd whose hobby is computers would do. The average person is not searching for videos to learn how to toggle the settings of their web browser, ffs. Firefox should be secure by default.

That asterisk is a problem though, having to go through and make it secure is an issue. What if you miss a setting? What if you misunderstand a setting? None of it is particularly upfront and easy. It doesn't ask you when you first install it to set this stuff up, it encourages you to just get stuck in and start using it straight away.

It's not too complicated for a nerd whose hobby is computers or someone who has studied computers, but for the layperson it's too much.

That's why Librewolf is so good. It's secure by default, with all the settings toggled to privacy and you can ease that off if you wish, for convenience or whatever.

Firefox essentially can't seem to decide if they want to be FOSS or capitalist, that's an issue.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/07/do-trees-poop/

I started quoting relevant parts but there's so many different ways they get rid of waste that it got silly.

In a nutshell (lol): sap, leaves, petals, fruit, dead wood inside the tree, and root excretions are all kind of tree poop in their own ways.

Aye, the males.

The females have shorter right legs. It's hypothesised that this evolved because it prevents them from going round and round the mountains in the same direction, but at opposite sides, never finding a mate

Oh sweet, that looks interesting. Thanks!

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have Scottish Gaelic. Unlikely with such a niche language, but, does anyone know of a Google Translate alternatives with Gaelic?

The point is to make everyone have the same size window therefore nobody stands out. We're all Spartacus as it were. Of course you can just click maximise if you want.

When maximised the size and resolution of your screen can be determined and used as a piece of data among many to uniquely identify you and attempt to figure out your identity. Depending on what you're doing and which sites you're using this may or may not be a concern.

For example, when I use my university's website, they already know who I am. I log in with an email address uniquely tied to me. So maximising the window then, to me, doesn't really matter. But if I'm browsing news articles from websites hell bent on bombarding me with adverts, cookies, and trackers then I'll stick with the default Librewolf sizing in an attempt to blend in.

From a usability perspective it's not as good as Firefox. But from a privacy stand point it's much better.

What I mean about usability is that due to it trying to prevent you from being fingerprinted it opens the browser in the same size window everytime, regardless of whether you prefer maximised or not. It has dark mode turned off. It doesn't remember cookies unless you explicitly manually add an exception. From a privacy perspective these are all good things but for convenience they're not.

All of these mild inconveniences can however be turned off if you wish. Just be aware you won't be browsing as securely then though.

As a Firefox replacement in all other regards, it's pretty much the same software. No, it is the same software.

If you use Linux and a password manager you may have an issue getting flatpaks to speak to each other and you also may have to move a folder from .mozilla to .librewolf to get them to speak to each other. These are easily searchable issues if you have them with simple fixes though.

In all other regards, to me at least, it feels just like Firefox