Monday, October 19, 2026

Re: PATCH www/librewolf: update to v 158.0-1

On 2026/10/19 13:28, Leah Rowe wrote: > i don't think translations/pdfalttext are disabled outright, i think it's > just the AI bits. translations *are* in the "AI" group. > my port turns off AI entirely, in librewolf. the firefox > port also disabled AI, based on config provided by the justthebrowser > project. grmbl, so *that's* why I couldn't find it any more, I thought they had just messed about with where it was in the UI and I hadn't found it yet. > i do the same in librewolf. i don't think we should be putting > strain on electricity and water needlessly in the browser. great, so send translations to google to have them to use even more electricity and water needlessly instead, so they can do the translation plus feed into whatever they feed it into for profiling etc? > actually building from source is not required, if the user wants to change > this. they can use the binary package, and then modify their own local > installation of the policy. this is just the policy that goes in /usr/local, > which the user can modify. the actual binary still has these features > available, unmodified except by virtue of the policy, which the browser > interprets on startup. that is a complete pain for package updates.

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