140.8.0-106 - konform-browser/source
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## Summary - feat: Bundle addon [Multi-Account Containers Lite](https://codeberg.org/konsortium/multi-account-containers-lite) ([v8.3.7002](https://codeberg.org/konsortium/multi-account-containers-lite/releases/tag/8.3.7002)). - This is a debloated and debranded fork of [Firefox Multi-Acc...

I would like to invite all of you Linux users to check out the latest release of Konform Browser.

Konform Browser is a free/libre and open-source (FLOSS) fork of Firefox with the primary goals of security, privacy, and user freedom. Hoping to be an example of how these three goals don’t have to be at odds but support each other and work in harmony. Would love to hear your feedback on if it’s in the right direction and what can be improved.

Been posting on and off the lemmies about the project during 2026. Below are major highlights since 140.8.0-103 update from a week and a half back:

  • Bundling and enforcing use of bundled fonts. Konform Browser now carries the same font-loading patches and bundled fonts as Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser. While this does increase download- and installation sizes, it has two clear benefits:
    • Significantly improved resistance against font fingerprinting used by tracking scripts. Konform Browser should now be more robust against this attack by having shared global font fingerprint.
    • All languages and scripts should render as expected regardless of what fonts you have installed on system.
  • Also bundled is now Multi-Account Containers Lite addon. It’s a debloated1 fork of Firefox Multi-Account Containers so you can utilize Container Tabs and set per-container proxies without installing addon for it.
  • While “AI chatbot” feature was already disabled and hidden by default, it was previously still possible to trigger activation of proprietary networked centralized cloudbots by setting pref browser.ml.chat.enabled=true. These have now been fully removed and replaced by a single provider utilizing locally running llamafile instance.
  • Ported a bunch of security fixes and improvement on fingerprinting protection from FF Rapid Release and Tor Browser which didn’t make it into upstream FF ESR.

For details and references see linked release notes. For even more details I hope the commit log is digestible.

Packages available for most Linux distributions.

AUR source package

Releases

Konform Browser is also on Mastodon where followers make me happy: https://techhub.social/@konform

1: Similarly as rest of Konform Browser: Removal and disabling of telemetry, analytics, ads, touting, nags (“call-to-actions”), and integrations with centralized proprietary service (Mozilla VPN in this case).

Cross-post. Original Thread @ https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/56107349

  • ken@discuss.tchncs.deOP
    7·
    2 days ago

    Cool. But…, could you name those explicitly?

    Thanks for checking out! Not in the readme, because it would be a PITA to keep that up to date over time, especially when rewriting for new context each time. They are already covered in release notes and commit log1 for the curious. You can also look under patches/kon in the source git repo.

    This comes to mind.

    Could you please explain why anyone should consider Konform Browser over it?

    Am engineer not a salesperson or influencer. I guess that means at this early stage it’s primarily targeting the audience who are able/willing to make sense of and contextualize the given material themselves, or willing to take a leap of faith. The pros/cons vs other browsers is something I hope to leave to other users to talk about and share around. Would be cool to hear your thoughts, for example! Maybe this is relevant for some, though.

    Also, pull requests attempting to improve the documentation are very much welcome. Would be great to get more contributors involved and one doesn’t have to be deeply technical to write good docs.

    1: Can click the commit hash for a release under /releases and then xxx commits to list commits for specific release

    • pheusie@programming.dev
      2·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for the quick rely!

      Maybe this is relevant for some

      That is very tangible, indeed. And kudos for providing the only browser that aced the ‘test’!

      Also, pull requests attempting to improve the documentation are very much welcome. Would be great to get more contributors involved and one doesn’t have to be deeply technical to write good docs.

      Hehe 😜. I do admire your work, but don’t get your hopes up 😅.

      Anyhow, I will add it to the list of Firefox(-based) browsers worth looking into. To be clear, I’m not a primary consumer of the product category. FWIW, I would install it on my system if I were*.