Commentary: Will #Firefox rise like phoenix from the ashes in 2024? https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/07/will-firefox-rise-like-phoenix-from-the-ashes-in-2024/ "The unlocking of full add-ons support in Firefox for Android may be the fire-starter that Mozilla needed." I wonder how many users will notice Manifest v3. I've used Firefox on PC for 20 years, but on Android I use Kiwi, a Chromium browser that blocks ads and supports many add-ons. #Android#Chromium
A differenza di Firefox, il browser chimico non ha una barra dei menù, ed Alt+S non fa nulla
“Aspetta, ma come è possibile che non ci sia una barra dei menù?”
Sprechi tempo a cercare sul web come attivare questa funzione e trovi solo articoli inutili che puntano ad estensioni inutili che fanno schifo
Ti incazzi e chiudi tutto
Dopo un’ora ti ricordi che dovevi fare quella cosa.
Perché mi distraggo così facilmente? Ma soprattutto, come fa Chromium a non avere una #BarraDeiMenu? Io ricordo che questa appare su ambienti #desktop che hanno una barra menu globale (KDE, o XFCE con un add-on), perché non c’è modo nella #GUI del programma di aprirla? 😫
#firefox par principe pour toutes les raisons que vous pouvez imaginer.
#chrome sur windows (ou #chromium sur #debian) pour mon calendrier gogol et mes quelques abonnements youtube. Également quand des e... de b... de développeurs web font des sites qui marchent que sur chrome et dérivés et que je peux vraiment pas faire autrement. Chrome le nouvel IE6
YEAH YEAH, There is Mozilla corp and Mozilla foundation, but none of them give a shit about Firefox. And as I know there is no way to donate to Firefox directly. So I give a dawn what happens to the fucking Mozilla, I so worry about Firefox future.
@jrballesteros05 I worry about this too. While #Firefox is free and open source software, meaning anyone can take over maintenance theoretically, the source is also a huge mess which is getting increasingly hard to figure out what's where, and why things work a certain way. Back when they had an IRC channel they actively refused to explain how certain things worked either, which didn't really help in spreading the knowledge to keep Firefox going into the indefinite future.
Sadly, #Chromium is only acting on the whims of #Google and therefore cannot be trusted as a reasonable competitor, and I don't expect any new browser engines to be made given how ridiculously complex the web has been made.
Sometimes I think it'd be better to just give up and use #Gopher instead, but the world won't just move with me and I'd still be forced to use a regular web browser for many things, such as banking or dealing with the government.
A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWAhttps://libredirect.github.io
>new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome
Chromium 120.0.6099.129 for which the source code was released two days ago repairs a zero-day vulnerability.
Zero-day means that the vulnerability is already actively exploited in the wild. Hopefully the last time this year, but it is already the 8th zero-day which was reported and fixed in Chromium. The new
Priority todo for today: Get the new Browser Actions TestFlight ready and out of the door. Since it became clear that I won't be able to sell that app through the App Store, I realized I might as well rebuild it to be able to do more™ later.
My ability to accept (App Store) rejections is straight-up Shakespearean
"Scientists think the heat of severe wildfires can transform a benign version of the metal, which is found commonly in California soil, into a notorious carcinogen.
In its trivalent form, #chromium is relatively harmless and abundant. But heat that is more than 390 degrees Fahrenheit can catalyze chemical reactions that transform it into its more dangerous form, hexavalent chromium, the new study said."
I use #Firefox primarily at the moment, because it's still the least worst around, but that's not going to last for long, especially with @mozilla's complete inability to actually investing in it to help preserve the open web instead of chasing other questionable endeavors. If didn't rely so heavily on #Blink/#Chromium I would be using @Vivaldi instead, or maybe #OtterBrowserhttps://otter-browser.org/ if it was a bit more mature.
A lot of people seem to have opinions on browser cores.
We built one. From scratch. We know what it takes to do, also knowing that big tech does its best to create incompatibilities.
Presto was, IMHO, the best browser engine, but that was more than 10 years ago. I wish development had not been halted and it would not have been halted if I had had anything to say about it.
Now we build Vivaldi on Chromium and we do feel it was the best we could do. We can build a great browser based on Chromium. I hope you are all enjoying Vivaldi. If you have not tried it, please do.
🇺🇸 The Better /kbin update to version 2.1.1 has already landed in the extension stores!
It adds a toggle switch to enable and disable automatic theme changes to the pop-up. Apart from that, the Polish translation in the options has been improved, the file structure has been gently changed, and (FINALLY!) a bug has been fixed, which caused Better /kbin options to open every time the extension was updated (and in some browsers - even every time it was launched). This problem had been present since early versions of the extension, but the source of the problem could not be found - finally, it worked!
If you miss something in the extension or have some interesting ideas about it - reply to this post :) https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin
🇵🇱 Aktualizacja Better /kbin do wersji 2.1.1 już wylądowała w sklepach z rozszerzeniami!
Dodaje ona przełącznik włączający i wyłączający automatyczną zmianę motywu do pop-up'u. Poza tym poprawiono tłumaczenie na język polski w opcjach, delikatnie zmieniono strukturę plików, a także (W KOŃCU!) usunięto błąd, przez który przy każdej aktualizacji rozszerzenia (a w niektórych przeglądarkach - nawet przy każdym jej uruchomieniu) otwierały się opcje Better /kbin. Problem ten występował już od wczesnych wersji rozszerzenia, ale nie można było znaleźć jego źródła - w końcu się udało!
Jeżeli czegoś Wam brakuje w rozszerzeniu albo macie jakieś ciekawe pomysły odnośnie do niego - piszcie :) https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin
everytime something that could've been barely Megabytes as an #AppImage, #FlatPak, #Snap or Kilobytes as a #CLI tool instead shoves yet another entire half gig copy of the #Bloatware-#Browser that is #Chromium onto the Desktop despite using not even 0,1% of it's featureset
I call this a systemic failure in Software Architecture.
Browsers are the most attacked applications on #Linux beyond CMSes and Webservers...
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)