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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • trust: The biggest trust factor difference to me is, who manages the package and how it is installed. Both are not packaged by my distribution maintainers, therefore I have trust issues with a program that important. However both are available as Flatpak. So I would recommend to install it this way.
  • updates: Another big factor is how often these are updated, especially security patches. In example for any Firefox based browser, I would not want to wait longer than 1 day before the fork is on the same version as the mainline Firefox.

I personally would prefer LibreWolf over Mullvad, because it is based off Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I personally would prefer LibreWolf over Mullvad, because it is based off Firefox.

They both are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago
  • LibreWolf ← Firefox
  • Mullvad ← Tor ← Firefox