It takes less than two minutes to uninstall the "bloat"\unwanted apps from the Start menu in Windows 10/11, right click and select uninstall, then uninstall again. There are also countless scripts and programs that will strip this "bloat" out or eliminate it from within the Windows install image directly. It is equally tedious to re-install Windows 10/11, drivers, software and apps, then configuring Windows to your liking. Literally a few minutes uninstalling unwanted apps from the Start menu will not significantly impact the process.
LibreWolf 140.0.4-1 by Razvan Serea
LibreWolf is an independent “fork” of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.
LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. LibreWolf features: Latest Firefox — LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
Independent Build — LibreWolf uses a build independent of Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path. As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
No phoning home — Embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed. In other words, minimal background connections by default.
User settings updates
Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
Community-Driven
Dark theme (classic and advanced)
LibreWolf privacy features: Delete cookies and website data on close.
Include only privacy respecting search engines like DuckDuckGo and Searx.
Include uBlockOrigin with custom default filter lists, and Tracking Protection in strict mode, to block trackers and ads.
Strip tracking elements from URLs, both natively and through uBO.
Enable dFPI, also known as Total Cookie Protection.
Enable RFP which is part of the Tor Uplift project. RFP is considered the best in class anti-fingerprinting solution, and its goal is to make users look the same and cover as many metrics as possible, in an effort to block fingerprinting techniques.
Always display user language as en-US to websites, in order to protect the language used in the browser and in the OS.
Disable WebGL, as it is a strong fingerprinting vector.
Prevent access to the location services of the OS, and use Mozilla's location API instead of Google's API.
Limit ICE candidates generation to a single interface when sharing video or audio during a videoconference.
Force DNS and WebRTC inside the proxy, when one is being used.
Trim cross-origin referrers, so that they don't include the full URI.
Disable link prefetching and speculative connections.
Disable disk cache and clear temporary files on close.
Disable form autofill.
Disable search and form history...and more.
Notes: To receive automatic updates, you may refer to the unofficial LibreWolf-WinUpdater that employs a scheduled task to accomplish the same.
Download: LibreWolf 64-bit | Portable 64-bit |~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: LibreWolf 32-bit | Portable 32-bit | Other Operating Systems
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"this error event is nothing to worry about since it's a false positive"
One false positive may be nothing to worry about or much to do about nothing. But when you start seeing multiple false positives coming from your computing device, you have to wonder.
1. Is my system's security level too high?
2. If the device's OS or other software is generating so many false positives how reliable is its security? If it is messing up so much with false positives, maybe it is also messing up by not catching the real thing.
3. PUP False Positives. Edge, with its Security Level at default and Windows Security used to block everything it thought was a PUP so I gave up using Edge to download software. I still occasionally get a false positive block from Window Security when i try and run an *.exe installer file, but that no longer happens too often and W11 makes it easy to "allow' that *.exe to run via Window Security Protection History.
The "mirror" link points to the direct TechSpot download for the 406.0 MB installer. If you prefer to download from the official Broadcom website, you’ll need to register—registration is free.