Comment by cookiengineer
1 year ago
Try going to gitlab.com with librewolf, you'll see a white page with no content. Librewolf is blocked off from half the internet that uses cloudflare, so it's kind of a useless browser.
Every browser that's not a majority browser will be associated with these kind of blocking risk. I can't risk access to my financially important accounts, nobody can. So to me this is not a feasible alternative.
The only way to build a browser is to act like one of the others, and to behave like one of the others. Can't use brave, given their history, but farbling approach is the most sustainable solution in my opinion.
My remaining hope is that ladybird will actively deny implementing web standards that can be used for fingerprinting.
Something as simple as overflow:hidden is used on every website to force people to get tracked by having to activate JS, and things like this should be something a web browser should protect its users from.
We need a CSS engine that denies setting these kinds of things, because JS fingerprint prevention isn't enough if every website breaks because of it.
If you want a headstart, I tried forking webkit and do exactly this. Project is unmaintained because couldn't work fulltime on it without funding. Maybe somebody else picks it up? [1]
> gitlab.com with librewolf, you'll see a white page with no content
It works fine, even with JS disabled.
This is purely FUD per my experience. I use librewolf on websites behind cloudflare and with plenty of js. They all work just as well as they did in Firefox.
Librewolf sends Firefox in the user agent, and you can toggle Firefox "features" on if a website you use requires them.
Not trying to convince you to switch to it--you do you. Just sharing with someone who might be reading this thread and that hasn't tried librewolf.
Yea, I just went clicking all over gitlab.com and their own repository without issue on LibreWolf.
The amount of re-edits of your comment are a bit off the charts.
Why do you think I have a personal stake in this? Why do you feel personally attacked by my comment?
I am sorry if I somehow personally offended you!? Not sure how I could've phrased my comment differently.
Yeah, I thought it was unnecessarily confrontational and tried to make it clear that's not my intent.
I'm not offended in the slightest, just a very happy user who wants to encourage other people to try librewolf for themselves.
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> Try going to gitlab.com with librewolf, you'll see a white page with no content.
> If you want a headstart, I tried forking webkit and do exactly this
> [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit
I just opened that page on LibreWolf without any problems.
Lab and hub are different words.
https://gitlab.com/explore works fine with my LibreFox as well.