Web site: librefox.org (not active)
Category: Network
Subcategory: Web browsers
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, BSD
License: MPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia:
First release: 2018
Librefox – this project aims at enforcing the privacy and security of Firefox without forking the project.
Librefox uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, Librefox-Addons (optional) and a cleaned bundle of Firefox (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
Features:
– Updated browser: because this project is not a fork, it is kept updated with the latest Firefox version.
– Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions (firewall-test-feature)
– IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up): embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed (zero unauthorized connection by default).
– User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
– Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within mozilla.cfg and policies.json, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/Firefox or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing mozilla.cfg and policies.json.
– Librefox-addons: set of optional Librefox extensions
– Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
– Tested settings: settings are performance aware
– ESR and Tor version (Librefox TBB Beta)
– Tor Librefox-addons: adapted Librefox extensions for TBB
– Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
– Dark theme (classic and advanced)
– Recommended and code reviewed addons list
– Community-Driven
– And much more…
