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Port details on branch 2025Q2
librewolf Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
137.0 www on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port This port version is marked as vulnerable. Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 137.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: freebsd@sysctl.cz search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-04-02 15:51:07
Last Update: 2025-04-03 21:31:27
Commit Hash: 9eb86f5
Also Listed In: wayland
License: MPL20
WWW:
https://librewolf.net/
Description:
LibreWolf is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features: o Popup Blocking o Tabbed Browsing o Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS) o Extensions o Themes o FastFind o Improved Security
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/librewolf-137.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/librewolf-137.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/librewolf-137.0/MPL20
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Dependency lines:
  • librewolf>0:www/librewolf
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/librewolf/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install www/librewolf
  • pkg install librewolf
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: librewolf
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1743578731 SHA256 (librewolf-137.0-1.source.tar.gz) = 9ff46d1294210d7f617c81d560e9ba507f9acf88195fabefc2cc5b6cd55bcbc1 SIZE (librewolf-137.0-1.source.tar.gz) = 985571896

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
librewolf
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest136.0.1136.0.4--136.0.4---
FreeBSD:13:quarterly136.0.2136.0.4--136.0.4---
FreeBSD:14:latest136.0.1136.0.4--136.0.4---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly136.0.2136.0.4--136.0.4---
FreeBSD:15:latest136.0.2136.0.2n/a-n/a---
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
  2. nss>=3.109 : security/nss
  3. icu>=76.1 : devel/icu
  4. libevent>=2.1.8 : devel/libevent
  5. harfbuzz>=10.1.0 : print/harfbuzz
  6. graphite2>=1.3.14 : graphics/graphite2
  7. png>=1.6.45 : graphics/png
  8. dav1d>=1.0.0 : multimedia/dav1d
  9. libvpx>=1.15.0 : multimedia/libvpx
  10. py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
  11. v4l_compat>0 : multimedia/v4l_compat
  12. autoconf2.13 : devel/autoconf2.13
  13. nasm : devel/nasm
  14. yasm : devel/yasm
  15. zip : archivers/zip
  16. libc++abi.a : devel/wasi-libcxx19
  17. libc.a : devel/wasi-libc@19
  18. wasi-compiler-rt19>0 : devel/wasi-compiler-rt19
  19. rust-cbindgen>=0.26.0 : devel/rust-cbindgen
  20. rust>=1.85.0 : lang/rust
  21. node : www/node
  22. libnotify>0 : devel/libnotify
  23. jack.h : audio/jack
  24. pulseaudio.h : audio/pulseaudio
  25. sndio.h : audio/sndio
  26. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  27. llvm-config19 : devel/llvm19
  28. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  29. python3.11 : lang/python311
  30. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  31. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  32. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  33. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  34. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  35. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  36. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  37. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  38. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  39. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  40. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  41. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  2. ffmpeg>=6.0,1 : multimedia/ffmpeg
  3. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  4. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  5. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  6. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  7. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  8. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  9. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  10. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  11. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  12. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  13. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  2. libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
  3. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  4. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  5. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  6. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  7. libgraphite2.so : graphics/graphite2
  8. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  9. libicui18n.so : devel/icu
  10. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  11. libnss3.so : security/nss
  12. libpng.so : graphics/png
  13. libpixman-1.so : x11/pixman
  14. libvpx.so : multimedia/libvpx
  15. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  16. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  17. libdbus-glib-1.so : devel/dbus-glib
  18. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  19. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  20. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  21. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  22. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  23. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  24. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  25. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  26. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  27. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for librewolf-137.0: CANBERRA=off: Sound theme alerts DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...) LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations PROFILE=on: Build with profiling support TEST=off: Build and/or run tests ====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available) ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support JACK=on: JACK audio server support PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
www_librewolf
USES:
compiler:c++17-lang cpe elfctl gl gmake gnome iconv llvm:min=17,noexport localbase pkgconfig python:build desktop-file-utils jpeg
pkg-message:
For install:
## Missing features Some features found on Windows, macOS and Linux are not implemented: - Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary) - Process sandboxing (requires Capsicum backend) - Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc) - Crash Reporter (requires Google Breakpad and reproducible builds) - WebVR (requires open source runtime) - TCP fast open - `about:networking#networkid` (requires link state notification) ## Audio backend Currently used audio backend can be inspected on `about:support` page. Supported backends and default probing order is as follows: - `pulse-rust` if `pulseaudio` package is installed (PULSEAUDIO option) - `jack` if `jackit` package is installed (JACK option) - `sndio` if `sndio` package is installed (SNDIO option) - `alsa` if `alsa-lib` package is installed (ALSA option) - `oss` (always available) To force a specific backend open `about:config` page and create `media.cubeb.backend` preference. Microphone selection only works in `oss`, `pulse-rust` backends. Other backends are limited to `default` which is usually `/dev/dsp`, so use virtual_oss to reroute microphones from non-default devices. ## Gamepad API Requires evdev(4) joystick support. On FreeBSD 13 and later enable hgame(4) while older versions can use sysutils/iichid or multimedia/webcamd. ## smb:// issues Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly. ## sftp:// Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily setup public key authentication to `remote_host`: $ ssh-keygen $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys" The SSH server on `remote_host` must allow pub key authentication. ## Profile Librewolf moved profile folder to ${HOME}/.mozilla/librewolf
Master Sites:
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
137.0
03 Apr 2025 21:31:27
commit hash: 9eb86f5136d9d891509cf68c2e302c5dc53e9c2acommit hash: 9eb86f5136d9d891509cf68c2e302c5dc53e9c2acommit hash: 9eb86f5136d9d891509cf68c2e302c5dc53e9c2acommit hash: 9eb86f5136d9d891509cf68c2e302c5dc53e9c2a files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Martin Filla
www/librewolf: Update pkg-message: Librewolf moved profile to
${HOME}/.mozilla/librewolf

PR:	285864 285866
MFH:	2025Q2
(cherry picked from commit 1cd6a1d5b0a426c54911c596bf5e28fcdebe9e03)
137.0
02 Apr 2025 15:41:07
commit hash: d2077584a6900dc1f3a17d93b2916a57aa6f0e3acommit hash: d2077584a6900dc1f3a17d93b2916a57aa6f0e3acommit hash: d2077584a6900dc1f3a17d93b2916a57aa6f0e3acommit hash: d2077584a6900dc1f3a17d93b2916a57aa6f0e3a files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Martin Filla
www/librewolf: Update 136.0.4-1 => 137.0-1

Changelog:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/

Switch to system icu again.

PR:	285842
MFH:	2025Q2
(cherry picked from commit d0427efd0b102c73c944a9455750bf1d010dbcc8)

Number of commits found: 2