Librewolf in the Repository?

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Are there any plans to offer Librewolf as an alternative Browser in the future?

(Budgie Repository)

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There are no plans for Ubuntu to support alternative browsers directly. There was an exercise a few cycles ago to block alternative browsers from being sync’d from Debian because unfortunately no one decided to take on the task of keeping these browsers up-to-date in the Ubuntu repos. Remember - browsers are a lot of work to keep in sync - testing, backporting etc. Requires a dedicated team of folk to-do.

Ubuntu has devolved support for Firefox to Mozilla themselves - Mozilla themselves provides the snap and snap updates.

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Sure, but it might be possible to add to the ‘Browser Ballot’ in Budgie Welcome.
If you can’t provide the Flatpak version, perhaps you could offer this one instead:

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I don’t know much about this browser - from the description is just sounds like a customised Firefox. Is there really a big community behind this to warrant adding to the browser ballot? Or is it one of those browsers that occasionally pops up and in a few months just disappears again?

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I understand, but LibreWolf has been around for five years now, during which time it seems to have established itself as one of the best browsers in terms of privacy protection:

And it seems to have strong community support.

That said, I’m just saying, since I’ve never used Firefox nor LibreWolf.

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Fair enough - happy to have this in the browser ballot.

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It is possible to install it with the Terminal on Ubuntu. I know, for a fact, LInux Mint has it in the repository… since not everyone likes using the (scary :ghost: ) Terminal. Librewolf is just Firefox with all the negatives removed. I have both Browsers on my Laptop, but (for some reason) can’t install it on the Main Machine…. my Desktop. :man_shrugging:

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@Germoney You should try installing Firefox from Budgie Welcome > Getting Started > Browser Ballot > Firefox ESR (personal advice)…

For LibreWolf, if you want to give yourself a big thrill :scream:, launch the terminal (Ctrl Alt t) and enter these three lines one after the other:

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

As you can see, terminal (for users) is nothing more than copy and paste! :sweat_smile:
And you can easily do lots of things with it!

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