I’m thinking about switching to a Firefox fork as a web browser. Apart from Tor, they’re all on AUR. I can’t use Tor all the time.

Do you consider that a security risk that’s worth worrying about? E.g. you could get a dodgy maintainer putting malware in it, as least theoretically.

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    There’s always a security risk, however if you are referring to librewolf from the AUR I would say it’s “safe”?

    It has 160 votes and a popularity of 14.73* which means there’s a good chance someone more capable then we are, already looked at the PKGBUILD.

    That’s not a 100% proof of reliability but it’s a good pointer to a healthy AUR build.

    *The bin package has even more votes and popularity. It’s the recommended way, because the other package compiles from source and can take a long time !