Hello again fearless GMs!
Today for the fun of it - I decided to try a new(-sh) web browser: Librewolf.
This is an open-source fork of Mozilla's Firefox, but with added privacy sauce to shield you from the Surveillance Web.
To see why I wanted to try it - head over to https://privacytests.org/ and take a look at that bloodbath.
But, changing browsers is painful and I wanted to start off with librewolf pretty much where I already was with Firefox - which is why I went with librewolf rather than Brave.
I backed up and hacked up my heavily customized Mozilla profile and built a new librewolf profile out of it (ask me how in DM or Discord to avoid clutter here).
Fired up my new browser and ... it worked pretty much as expected - bookmarks, saved passwords, extensions, about:config customizations all carried over.
My browser is setup to open all of my favorite sites on start... so my 4 personal web sites, the Campaign Community site and related tools all flew open.
And here we get to the point of the ramble: I am writing this post on Campaign Community from librewol - that works fine so far.
But I get an interesting message from Campaign Logger:
Hmmm... it seems there were some sort of privacy issues around "Service Workers" in the firefox browser which the librewolf community removed.
I have some learning to do ... but before I fell down that rabbit hole I thought I would post this up here for future reference.
I kept my full Firefox install and profile preserved, so this is no issue for me at the moment - I can use CL from a full browser.
But I know J4JL cares quite a bit about Doing the Right Thing with cookies and privacy concerns (part of why I put my money here rather than elsewheres) and so I wanted to document up that there's some sort of Lurking Horror around service workers.
Also, in case anyone else ever tries librewolf this will hopefully be here to let them know its a known incompatibility between CL and that browser.
Maybe more as I learn it...
Today for the fun of it - I decided to try a new(-sh) web browser: Librewolf.
This is an open-source fork of Mozilla's Firefox, but with added privacy sauce to shield you from the Surveillance Web.
To see why I wanted to try it - head over to https://privacytests.org/ and take a look at that bloodbath.
But, changing browsers is painful and I wanted to start off with librewolf pretty much where I already was with Firefox - which is why I went with librewolf rather than Brave.
I backed up and hacked up my heavily customized Mozilla profile and built a new librewolf profile out of it (ask me how in DM or Discord to avoid clutter here).
Fired up my new browser and ... it worked pretty much as expected - bookmarks, saved passwords, extensions, about:config customizations all carried over.
My browser is setup to open all of my favorite sites on start... so my 4 personal web sites, the Campaign Community site and related tools all flew open.
And here we get to the point of the ramble: I am writing this post on Campaign Community from librewol - that works fine so far.
But I get an interesting message from Campaign Logger:
Hmmm... it seems there were some sort of privacy issues around "Service Workers" in the firefox browser which the librewolf community removed.
I have some learning to do ... but before I fell down that rabbit hole I thought I would post this up here for future reference.
I kept my full Firefox install and profile preserved, so this is no issue for me at the moment - I can use CL from a full browser.
But I know J4JL cares quite a bit about Doing the Right Thing with cookies and privacy concerns (part of why I put my money here rather than elsewheres) and so I wanted to document up that there's some sort of Lurking Horror around service workers.
Also, in case anyone else ever tries librewolf this will hopefully be here to let them know its a known incompatibility between CL and that browser.
Maybe more as I learn it...