- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
I would like to invite all of you Linux users to check out the latest release of Konform Browser.
Konform Browser is a free/libre and open-source (FLOSS) fork of Firefox with the primary goals of security, privacy, and user freedom. Hoping to be an example of how these three goals don’t have to be at odds but support each other and work in harmony. Would love to hear your feedback on if it’s in the right direction and what can be improved.
Been posting on and off the lemmies about the project during 2026 and previously on this community. Below are major highlights since 140.8.0-103 update from two weeks back:
- Bundling and enforcing use of bundled fonts. Konform Browser now carries the same font-loading patches and bundled fonts as Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser. While this does increase download- and installation sizes, it has two clear benefits: - Significantly improved resistance against font fingerprinting used by tracking scripts. Konform Browser should now be more robust against this attack by having shared global font fingerprint. - All languages and scripts should render as expected regardless of what fonts you have installed on system.
- Also bundled is now Multi-Account Containers Lite addon. It’s a debloated1 fork of Firefox Multi-Account Containers so you can utilize Container Tabs and set per-container proxies without installing addon for it.
- While “AI chatbot” feature was already disabled and hidden by default, it was previously still possible to trigger activation of proprietary networked centralized cloudbots by setting pref
browser.ml.chat.enabled=true. These have now been fully removed and replaced by a single provider utilizing locally running llamafile instance. - Ported a bunch of security fixes and improvement on fingerprinting protection from FF Rapid Release and Tor Browser which didn’t make it into upstream FF ESR.
For details and references see linked release notes. For even more details I hope the commit log is digestible.
Packages available for most Linux distributions.
Konform Browser is also on Mastodon where followers make me happy: https://techhub.social/@konform
1: Similarly as rest of Konform Browser: Removal and disabling of telemetry, analytics, ads, touting, nags (“call-to-actions”), and integrations with centralized proprietary service (Mozilla VPN in this case).
All my reply were a bit mess. My apologies for confusion.
I was referencing your words from another post here. I read it too fastly and memorized this part out-of-context. Nothing bad intended, sorry for the bad phrasing.
“In this sense (and a few others), Konform Browser is closer to IceCat/GNUZilla than it is to Librewolf.”
Now that I re-read whole message together I think I understand what you meant (timely security updates), and it’s a good thing. I just misintrepreted this part on first read.
Thank you for linking that CRLite article. It helped me understand better. I’m not a developer but just a regular user. I wasn’t sure what exactly OCSP is, except for it’s ties to certificates. My impression were based purely on “This increases security …” comment in browser’s settings. The only reason I listed it nearby brower theme override is because those are two things that differ in this regard from Librewolf according to Konform’ readme.
My Tor mention were purely disclaimer in case someone else would feel the urge to comment on that I shouldn’t seek “advanced deanonymization technics” protection from anything other then Tor Browser. I meant that I aware about it’s existence and actively use it whenever I need it. It didn’t imply that I used Konform over Tor during Cloudflare verification fails - no, I used it over just a regular VPN instead, same one VPN that passess those checks in both Librewolf and Mullvad, from the same machine, simultaneously.
My whole blury “I have a question” paragraph should have been written as “Am I right to assume that Konform provides at least same protections as Librewolf does?”. Now I know that answer is “Yes, and much more”, and I’m happy with it.
Please allow me some more time to re-read part of your reply considering Cloudflare so that I can understand it better and give a more appropriate answer. Thanks again for your patience & work.