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What faults?
Let's pull some obvious ones from the feature list!
For some other ones:
I'm not saying I don't like these features. I do. I only accept login cookies from services I host myself.
Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.
Most people care enough about privacy to want convenient ways to increase it. Most people do not care enough about privacy to have to log into Facebook every single time they restart their browser.
All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.
You listed a lot of very interesting features and probably convinced me to install it and give it a try, thanks, but again, what faults?
These are faults for most people. They're benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it's missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.
If these features interest you, that's great! But you're not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.
Most website-breaking features can be re-enabled in the Settings menu, in a special Librewolf section
I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.
Also I did say that
You have no dispute from me there. I just figured I would mention it to people who are already knowledgeable enough that a few switches won't bother them - people already in this thread, probably not on the street