Install LibreWolf on Debian Based Distros

LibreWolf is a custom verson of Firefox, with a focus on privacy and security. I thought this would be appropriate to look into after a recent video posted by Lunduke.

Steps

Run the following chained command to install Librewolf on your distro. It is based on the official docs, but I changed it so that it stops if your distro was not one that it is expecting/supports, rather than just falling back to as if y ou were running Ubuntu 20.04 (focal).

sudo apt update \
  && sudo apt install extrepo -y \
  && sudo extrepo enable librewolf \
  && sudo apt update \
  && sudo apt install librewolf -y

Extrepo is simply a tool to make it easy to manage external Debian repositories.

Things To Know

• Librewolf blocks cookies by default. If you want a site to remember you so you don't have to keep logging in, you will need to whitelist their ability to set cookies.
• Librewolf takes steps to hide your identity and prevent you being "fingerprinted", thus:
  • Popup windows such as for passbolt plugin login will appear in random sizes which can be annoying.
  • Your user agent will appear as a stock windows user, so Google may alert you that someone using Windows loggedin, when actually you logged in using Linux on Librewolf.