Librefox
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Librefox | winget-pkgs | |
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13 | 96 | |
1,705 | 7,930 | |
- | 2.4% | |
0.0 | 10.0 | |
about 3 years ago | 3 days ago | |
JavaScript | PowerShell | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Librefox
- Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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Just got a new windows 10 desktop pc. What are some important apps I should get?
Firefox &/or LibreFox
- Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
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Firefox 96
Librefox[1] is a drop in replacement without the antifeatures.
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Best browser for privacy What's your thoughts on this privacy browser?
Librefox has not received an update since December 2018, you are recommending an outdated browser.
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LibreWolf A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
I fear this will suffer the same fate as many other privacy "forks". I'll still give it a try.
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Firefox and the dangers of multiple extensions
Awesome, yea I was a bit confused because I hadn't been super into this back when they did recommend a ton. I genuinely confused until I saw libre fox recommended extensions.
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Best Privacy Tools You've Discovered in 2020?
Development was halted on Librefox in 2019 due to copyright and trademark violation concerns coming from Mozilla. So a new fork, Librewolf, was started.
winget-pkgs
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MS and Windows gets a lot of (well deserved) hate, but winget is just fantastic!
Take dropbox as an example. This is what the yaml manifest looks like for that if you install it through winget. It literally has a hardcoded link to an .exe installer hosted by dropbox and then just set the flags to silent. I am not spreading misinformation, you are.
- PowerToys Release 0.71
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installed from winget, where is it located?
I never used winget, but probably: - https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/107858 - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/4027
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC - A Comprehensive Exploration of a Multimedia Powerhouse
It's probably not on the Store, winget pulls from both the Store and a community collection of manifests on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
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Seven.zip
I think that's part of the problem, if you don't have that package manager to bootstrap your signature key ring, DNS is your next best bootstrap. It is, of course, a terrible bootstrap for trust, but it is one so many users on Windows have been relying on for such a long time.
For power users on any modern Windows 10/Windows 11 there is at least WinGet now. Its manifests repo is becoming a very interesting (open) source of truth for common Windows applications. Admittedly, it in most cases doesn't seem to be checking specific code signatures in most cases either, but at least includes SHA checksums.
For instance, 7zip's manifests: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
It's too bad there's still not a great option for "average user that doesn't know/trust how to use a CLI", given how sadly polluted the Microsoft Store can be for many common, especially Open Source, applications. For direct instance, because winget kindly includes Microsoft Store results when searching, there is a "7zip 22" in the Microsoft Store that costs some amount of money (winget details say "PaidUnknownPrice" for the pricing information; I'm on a corporate machine right now with the actual Store access locked so can't search in the actual Store right now) and the Publisher is listed as RepackagerExpress.com. (That website currently doesn't go anywhere, giving it a spot check.)
Having seen this, I may boot up my personal machine and try to report this specific Store listing for violating the Store's Open Source policies, though I'm unsure if such whackamole is all that useful. (Seems like it might be a useful winget feature request for it to provide Store Report URLs.)
- [Sysadmin] Repo local Winget
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Winget local repository with links only
I would like to create a local winget source where I add manifests that my company accepts. To begin with it should only include jdk 8 from eclipse adoptium temurin. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/e/EclipseAdoptium/Temurin/8/JDK/8.0.302.8/EclipseAdoptium.Temurin.8.JDK.installer.yaml
- Programs that don't work in Windows
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i've had Bitwarden for a year and never seen a update message. is this normal?
It's community driven, see https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
What are some alternatives?
browser
ansible.windows - Windows core collection for Ansible
ghacks-user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening [Moved to: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js]
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
user.js - user.js -- Firefox configuration hardening
ctags - A maintained ctags implementation
play-with-mpv - Chrome extension that allows you to play videos in webpages like youtube with MPV instead
appget - Free and open package manager for Windows.
winget-intune-win32 - Repository containing examples of how to use winget from Intune, also in system context.
firefox - 🦊 Soothing pastel theme for Firefox
user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
fireftp - free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Firefox