I got both resistFingerprinting options turned on and Lemm.ee and the Mlmym front-end both work fine for me.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Lemm.ee worked fine* for me too, it was Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works that break. I think they both use cloudflare though, yeah? That might be the thing that breaks it.
Thats weird, lemmy shouldn't need any access to fingerprinting stuff. Its probably something else. What part of lemmy specifically does not work?
privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager suggests it could be due an addon/extension (the flag enables extensions to work on 'restricted' pages such the new tab)
This is something people suggesting librewolf as an alternative to firefox don't get right, that librewolf is not just any fork of firefox, but a very hardened fork, with many options for privacy and security enabled at the cost of increased site breakage.
What part of lemmy specifically does not work?
It hangs, doesn't load at all or crashes. It's different each time. I don't mind hanging a bit, but not loading and crashing is kind of a pain.
This is very weird, are using the default lemmy interface? I dont think the default lemmy interface has anything special so not sure why it would be acting like this.
You could use firefox only for apps that do not work well with librefox. Or try an alternative lemmy frontend like photon or voyager or tesseract or old lemmy (I forgot what the project is called).
Thanks for your help. FYI, tesseract breaks too. I was wondering if it was cloudflare or something? I'll just stick with firefox ig.
Have you tried going to other instances directly? I haven't had any issues with lemmy.ml it could just be that your instance is having issues.
Do you mean their settings are configured weird so it wouldn't work with them specifically? No, I haven't tried that. I don't really have accounts on other instances anymore. It's too bad, I've been having misgivings on Firefox for a bit now, I really wanted it to work.
You don't need an account. Just go to the website and see if it works.
Lemmy.world does not work but lemm.ee does. So it does seem to be instance related?
Librewolf is a hardened fork, not a general use replacement for Firefox. It’s up to you which one would better fit your needs.