LibreWolf Browser is a Firefox fork that focuses on privacy, security, and freedom

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[–]mousebit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-linux-mint-20/

This is handy for any Mint users. Or you can just go to Software Manager and install it without touching the command line. Really easy. I recommend the uBlock Origin extension specifically for it's "block element" feature. Most commercial-newstainment sites have something like 1/4 of the page being an article and 3/4 of the page are ads, solicitations for donations, calls to action (subscribe, get emails, etc), and it's nice to nuke all that easily.

LibreWolf's drawback is that it doesn't play nice with certain sites, in my experience you have to 'unset' a lot of the security features to have certain email, banking, or government sites work properly. I just use ungoogled-chromium for that, because I'm not trying to hide my info from sites that already know full well who I am.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I discovered only yesterday that uBlock can block JS and the like. It can replace uMatrix. So this browser comes out of the box with the only extension you really need to make browsing an acceptable experience. (Although NoScript still has value, since it has some unique features.)

Note that uBlock lets you whitelist the sites that it breaks. You need to click on the button and then on "more" one or two times to reveal the content matrix.