LibreWolf

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with LibreWolf, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Poor UI was a deal-breaker, lacks global menu bar integration2026-03-30
Default auto-clear cookies on restart makes it painful for daily use2025-09-19
Text size zoom doesn't persist per site, so user must re-enlarge constantly2025-03-15
Strict privacy defaults break logins and need debugging workarounds2025-03-14
Won't save window size, and moving from Firefox requires manually copying profile data2025-03-02
Site-specific cookie option only appears in private windows, not regular ones2025-03-02
Breaks most websites, so it doesn't work out of the box2022-06-27
Disables many options by default, breaking websites, and can't be changed without a manual override file2022-06-22
Clicking any app on a website always opens the same first app instead2022-03-18