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Osint Daily cover for LibreWolf, under Research sandboxes & managed attribution, published 23 Oct 2026. The right side is a monogram because no capture is filed. Independent Firefox build. The.

01 · Product name

LibreWolf

Independent Firefox build. The license field was null.

Published by LibreWolf.

In short

LibreWolf is the independent Firefox build published at librewolf.net. On 23 Oct 2026 the homepage said it removes telemetry, includes uBlock Origin, and is not affiliated with Mozilla. The Codeberg version file said 158.0.1. The releases API's latest tag was 153.0.4-1, published 2026-08-11. The FAQ documents version 6.8 of the settings, which is not the browser version. The API license field was null. The LICENSE file starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Research sandboxes is the category. This is a local browser, not a managed-attribution network.

Product pricing strategy

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Free

LibreWolf printed no dollar price on 23 Oct 2026. The homepage, the FAQ, and the Codeberg source page have no checkout. The FAQ says the project does not accept donations. That sentence is not a price of zero for a seat, and it is not an SPDX field. The Codeberg API license field was null. This listing does not invent an SPDX identifier for a null field. The LICENSE file starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Null is the API field. MPL 2.0 is the file. Quote both. The version file 158.0.1, the commit subjects 158.0.1-1 and 158.0.1-2, the release tag 153.0.4-1, and the FAQ settings version 6.8 are four different strings. None of them is a fee.

Utility and features

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The homepage says LibreWolf is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom. It says the project aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances. Private search names DuckDuckGo, Searx and more. uBlock Origin is included. A later line on the same homepage says LibreWolf is not affiliated with Mozilla. No dollar price was printed.

  • Version file is 158.0.1. The raw version file on Codeberg said 158.0.1. Commit subjects on the tree said 158.0.1-1 and 158.0.1-2.
  • Latest release tag is 153.0.4-1. The releases API name was LibreWolf Source v153.0.4-1, published 2026-08-11T14:18:36+02:00.
  • License field was null. The API returned license null and 1347 stars. The LICENSE file starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.

The version file at the Codeberg source repository, raw on branch main, contained 158.0.1. The source page showed commit subjects Bump to version 158.0.1-2 and Bump to version 158.0.1-1 next to files. Those subjects are not the version file. The Codeberg releases API returned tag 153.0.4-1, name LibreWolf Source v153.0.4-1, published 2026-08-11T14:18:36+02:00. The repository API the same morning returned stars_count 1347, updated_at 2026-10-23T02:57:17+02:00, and license null. The LICENSE file in that tree starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. The FAQ says it documents version 6.8 of the settings. It says nobody is working on an Android version and recommends IronFox, a different project. It says the project does not accept donations, and that the default search stays DuckDuckGo. The path https://librewolf.net/docs/release-notes/ returned 404 and is not cited.

  1. 1

    Cite 158.0.1 from the version file and 153.0.4-1 from the releases API. Do not merge them.

  2. 2

    Say the API license field was null, and quote MPL 2.0 from the LICENSE file.

  3. 3

    Call 6.8 the FAQ settings document. Recommend IronFox only as the FAQ's Android sentence.

Caveats

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Four version strings were current on the same morning. 158.0.1 is the version file. 158.0.1-1 and 158.0.1-2 are commit subjects on the source page. 153.0.4-1 is the latest release the API returned, dated 2026-08-11. 6.8 is the FAQ's settings document. Do not call the release tag the version file, and do not call 6.8 the browser.

The license field was null. The LICENSE file is MPL 2.0. Replacing the null with the file, or the file with a guessed SPDX token, hides which source you used. IronFox is the FAQ's Android recommendation. It is not a LibreWolf build. The browser was not launched in this review, so there is no window capture. Research sandboxes is the category because the page is a local hardened browser. LibreWolf is not a managed-attribution network, and it does not route traffic through Tor.

Potential use cases

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  • The version file is about to be replaced by the release tag. On 23 Oct 2026 the Codeberg version file contained 158.0.1. The source page showed commit subjects 158.0.1-1 and 158.0.1-2. The releases API's latest tag was 153.0.4-1, published 2026-08-11. The FAQ documents version 6.8 of the settings. Four strings, four sources.
  • The null license field is about to be filled in. The repository API returned license null, 1347 stars, and updated_at 2026-10-23T02:57:17+02:00. The LICENSE file starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Null stays the field. MPL 2.0 stays the file. The homepage says LibreWolf is not affiliated with Mozilla, which is a project sentence, not a license.
  • IronFox is about to be described as LibreWolf for Android. The FAQ says nobody is working on Android and recommends IronFox. IronFox is a different project. The FAQ also says the project does not accept donations and that the default search stays DuckDuckGo. No dollar price was printed. The browser was not launched.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

The release tag replaces the version file

153.0.4-1 is the latest Codeberg release, dated 2026-08-11. 158.0.1 is the version file on branch main the same morning. A note that says the current release is 158.0.1 is using the version file as the release tag.

Questions

Is LibreWolf free?

The pages opened on 23 Oct 2026 printed no dollar price. The FAQ says the project does not accept donations. The API license field was null. The LICENSE file starts Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.

Which version string is the browser?

The version file said 158.0.1. The latest release tag was 153.0.4-1. The FAQ's 6.8 is the settings document. The commit subjects 158.0.1-1 and 158.0.1-2 are not the version file.

Citations

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