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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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By plugins, do you mean browser extensions, or something else? Librewolf just automatically downloads and installs uBlock Origin from the Mozilla add-on store the first time you run it, so there isn’t really a difference between that and using Firefox + Arkenfox and just manually installing uBO.
Also, uBO today is a must for any power user, or just any user, for that matter. I have uBO on a number of machines and on average on my settings at leasr a cool 1/4 of all content and connections get blocked. That is a huge % given that I do not use any social media on my PCs. Not even YT, directly.
Security fixes are backported to ESR releases so they are not less secure than bleeding edge.
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Librewolf has AppImage on their webpage, too. Does it not fit your use case?
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Which distro are you on and why are you building Librewolf instead of using the Flatpak or Distrobox?
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Alright then. Have fun compiling an entire web browser…
4GB RAM are the minimum for building firefox. I’ve seen reports of building with 16GB and an i7 taking 20 minutes. Your machine is quite old, so honestly leave it overnight and check in in the morning, then check in again after work.
Maybe run a timed build. I’m curious about the results.
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Which generation i7 though
I recommend just using the flatpak
IIRC there is a flatpack of it
First, this would be a better question to ask in a Linux specific community.
Second, Build time is really subjective to the computer and its hardware. There could be bottlenecks at the cpu/memory from the motherboard that will slow it down. It also depends on whether you’re spinning rust or using an ssd.
There are a lot of factors involved in the whole that makes it hard to definitively say how long something takes to build.
But it’s still possible to give an estimate knowing a little bit about the hardware, right?
The missing number is drive speed, because 4GB ram are not nearly enough, swapping is necessary. But with fast moder drives (were pcie ssds a thing back then?) expect half a day
At that age cpu it’s almost certainly a hard drive not ssd.
My guess is 1-2 days. 4gb RAM is going to thrash like hell
ssds are a really cheap upgrade, and have been for a while. My systems of similsr age have had ssd upgrades for about 5 years now. It’ll likely be limited to sata speeds though.