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Re: "Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf?"
jeang3nie: I sure did install the glibc version! Void has been problem-free. It's amusing to note that while most of the code I written lately is assembly against kernel calls, I am really dependent (for documentation etc) on the damned web browsers that have a huge footprint. And really spoiled by being able to quickly plug in USB hard drives.
Jan 23 · 5 months ago
as i said, librewolf is installed on my postmarketos, which is based on alpine.
— librewolf on pkgs.alpinelinux.org
it is in repos, it works, i use it.
🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 24 at 02:16:
oops...
Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf? — The honeymoon is over. I tried to install librewolf, my go-to browser with no telemetry, but could not get it to work, even with libc-6 compatibility apk installed. Next I tried to install tor browser. There is a tor package which ran once, but apparently it is just the transport, no browser, which is a serious security problem. And after a ctrl-c, I was unable to restart tor at all. All of it is weird: I know Firefox is a bit weird with libc, but...