luigi1112: can i have your opinion on this sir ?

<selsta> "No, if you open a malicious..." <- how can I personally verify that an open source program doesn't contain any malicious code?

it depends, there are always levels of security

if you compile the program yourself and you verify the signature of the commits you should be relatively safe

the next step would be reading the source code yourself but that's basically impossible for a single person

(depending on the size of the program and amount of programs)

selsta: should i put a plain text seed with $1000 on my desktop to see if my computer is infected ? then if it is ill just move the rest

im just way too lazy to reinstall macos all over again just for this

you don't have to reinstall macos just because you have downloaded librewolf

just be careful of what you install

do you have a second / old computer that you can use solely for cryptocurrency?

selsta: I am. I literally don't download ANYTHING. All I have on my mac is the Monero GUI, Tor, and Chrome. LibreWolf was the first time I ever downloaded something out of my comfort zone

I don't, I do everything on this computer where I hold all of my xmr net worth

ok, don't worry about librewolf

Well then all you need to do is research librewolf's development

What it branched off of, or what they add to each Firefox release

selsta: ok, thank you so much

s/am. I//

Librewolf should be a good browser, with better privacy than Firefox or chromium.

But I havent personally read the code for the changes that they make to Firefox to ensure there isnt anything nasty. I assume there is none as it is a recommended replacement to firefox. Personally, id use libre > Firefox

On android I use mull > Firefox.

Librewolf is the closest to mull on desktop

> <@ofrnxmr:monero.social> Librewolf should be a good browser, with better privacy than Firefox or chromium.

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> But I havent personally read the code for the changes that they make to Firefox to ensure there isnt anything nasty. I assume there is none as it is a recommended replacement to firefox. Personally, id use libre > Firefox

That's exactly why I downloaded it in the first place. But then I thought to myself, since it such as small dev team and a small project, how easily it would be for a dev to sneakily inject malicious code

* That's exactly why I downloaded it in the first place. But then I thought to myself, since it such as small dev team and a small project, how easily it would be for a dev to sneakily inject malicious code.. It made me so incredibly paranoid

Compare code vs Firefox

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