Browsers

Web Browsers

With web browser incorporating AI and summarizing what you are viewing, privacy becomes much harder to achieve.

To slect a privacy focus browser, reference [1] recommends looking at https://privacytests.org/ . Reference [1] then goes on to say that " Brave, Mullvad, and Librewold all seem to stand out on the list". These browser are also listed in Reference [2].

Tor - The Onion Router is based on Firefox.
Mullvad is Tor without the Onion Router. Instead of the Onion Router by default Mullvad uses the Mullvad VPN, which is a pay for VPN like Nordvpn. You can use the Mullvad Browser with other VPNs that use OpenVPNV or WireGuard, but this requires downloading and modifying configuration files.
Librewolf is a hardened version of Firefox
Brave based on Google's open-source chromium browser. I don't trust Google.

Unfortunately, Tor and Mullvad are not currently available for the ARM/aarch64 architecture [2]. You can download versions of Tor and Mullvad compiled by https://pi-apps.io/, but these appear to be way behind the current versions of Tor and Mullvad.

Librewolf's FAQ still says that it plans to support aarch64 for Debian in the future [3], and it looks like it is already here. That is, the instructions for installing LibreWolf on Debian x86 [4] are the same as those for installing LibreWold on Debian ARM/aarch64 [5],

The instructions for uninstalling LibreWolf are also in reference [4].

In installing LibreWolf, LibreWolf uses Debian's extrepo [6] package for adding third-party repositories.

On 9/20/2025, I installed LebraWold on my HP EliteDesk, and I like it.

On 9/21/2025, I followed the instructions in [4], and I successfully installed LibreWolf on a Raspberry Pi 5B running Bookworm.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install extrepo -y
sudo extrepo enable librewolf
sudo apt update
sudo apt install librewolf -y

extrepo stands for External Repository

Web Browsers

References