Have used it as my secondary browser (~everything that doesn't need login: documentation, news, etc) for a couple of years now and it is great.

Also always looking for someone to create a paid version of Firefox that:

- stays up to date with development of FF

- turns off all the stupid ideas

- gradually re-implement the most important parts that certain old extensions dependend on: scrapbook, scheduled website update checker (have forgotten the actual name), those kinds of things

I know many people here say: "everyone say they will pay for this or that but nobody does", but I am one of those persons who actually do pay for software that changes my life for the better or has the potential to do so.

So far I can only remember a single one (Logseq is good for now) in the last category that hasn't either collapsed in an honest way (rip sandstorm) or rewarded my early support by doing something really stupid, like typically breaking the thing that made me support them in the first place, but I guess I will continue trying.

If someone makes the thing I mention above at a reasonable price and I don't show up, please contact me, I might have missed it. (Reasonable = don't expect me to pay the same for bundling a set of patches as I pay for Jetbrains bundle or MS Office.)

Librewolf does #1 and #2 already. But generally, there's no market for that.

Most of those who say "I would pay for that" would indeed never do it. Because those people want something very specific - something you can only have via extensions and personal modifications. What you want is very specific to what you personally want and it is different to what everyone else wants.

And no one can create a browser project for your personal preferences.

Just like you will probably say "Librewolf doesn't stay up to date the way I want them to... and they don't turn off all the stupid ideas the way I want them to."

Librewolf is everything one can ask from an open-source Firefox fork.

People always complained when Firefox moved to a more efficient extension system but practically no one cared about Waterfox keeping the old firefox extensions alive. That's because those people are the absolute minority and do not represent the common user.

And what they complain about is not actually the technical change - it is about the overall change in society and what a move away from the more technical approach that allows user modification symbolizes - the dumbing down of software in general. For example, RSS symbolizes the old internet, but the old internet is gone.

I donate to projects that make software that's important to me, too (LibreOffice, Signal etc). I'd actually donate to LibreWolf but I can't see a way to do so.

What settings and why? Did they break some sites? Been meaning to try LibreWolf too.

By default, LibreWolf clears cookies and browser history when it closes. I understand why, it's a bit too aggressive for me (and I use temporary container tabs, so cookies hanging around doesn't bother me).

ive found in the not too distant past that sometimes playing DRM content on librewolf to staight not work. For instance playing spotify will straight not work but will work fine in firefox