It turns out that GitLab's homebrew PDF files previewer is so wildly inefficient that it is an excellent performance torture test for any browser engine, not just WebKitGTK but also #Firefox.
I think the reason I can't decide what browser to use is that I can't decide what degree of privacy protection I want. I want to keep my data out of the hands of greedy tech companies, but I don't know if I care about fingerprinting enough to use something like Mullvad Browser, which has Tor-like effect caused by everyone using the same configuration.
I almost think I just want to stick to using plain Firefox with my own hardening or something like Arkenfox. I don't know. So many layers to what seems like a simple decision. Any thoughts? #firefox#privacy#security
I don't like that #Firefox has "Developer Edition" it only increases the bar for people to experiment.
For me, browsers have been the last bastion of hackability in the modern app ecosystem. I understand why Google #Chrome and Apple #Safari don't want people to make all kinds of extensions.
Firefox is the underdog at the moment, they should:
Aim to make the out-of-the-box experience familiar,
Be customizable so people can build wild ideas like Arc Browser is doing as an extension.
Was fiddling with email from my health insurance company that came "secure" via #Cisco secure email of some sort. I followed all the instructions and could not get it to open. Finally, tried Chrome and it worked. So the problem appeared to be some compatibility w Cisco's system of encryption/authentication and #Firefox. I googled it, and found this: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/email_encryption/CRES/recipient_guide/b_Recipient/b_Recipient_chapter_0101.pdf
Scroll down and you'll find that in order to use the thing, you have to turn on cross site scripting.
#Firefox 125.0.3 is out now to fix a text corruption bug when dragging text containing Unicode characters on #Linux systems, an issue with an extra blank tab with an address of https://0.0.0.1 appearing when attempting to launch Firefox when it's already running, an issue that could cause incorrect font selection in some situations for users with the Japanese locale set, and two other bugs https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.3/releasenotes/
Trying to switch to Firefox, making solid progress. I made a theme, that is pretty close to Chrome, the address bar is white, tab is white (no borders). One thing still bugs me: Why is the Firefox tab not connected to the address bar?
I really would like it to be connected. It's such a minor thing though, that it's not a dealbreaker.
@gabriel Interestingly #PaleMoon ignores the styling and description of the #RSS feed, because it is a RSS reader (it never removed that functionality from #Firefox) and has its own styling for feeds. It's not necessarily a bad thing though! If you're using a reader then you probably don't need the styling anyway :sagume_think:
Here's a Flatpak story: The other day, my best friend told me that he had switched to Linux! Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, a noble choice in my opinion. He's a smart guy, but he was having some issues that he couldn't figure out: Firefox' maximise and minimise buttons were missing, drag and drop from archives wasn't working, his selected theme wasn't applied everywhere, and many other small issues I can't remember now.
I tried reproducing his issues on my machine, but everything worked fine for me. We were confused. Is there missing libraries? We went through packages to find out what my system had that his didn't. It was weird, everything was kinda working, but the devil was always in the details, for every single app.
And then we found it: All those applications he had issues with were Flatpaks! He simply didn't pay attention when installing them through the Discover store. He didn't even know what Flatpak meant.
I helped him remove Flatpak from his system and install the system packages instead, and all issues were gone.
Man, Flatpaks suck. How does anyone prefer Flatpaks over system packages? How does anyone think this was a good idea? Stop trying to invent new things to solve old problems and instead go back and fix the problems.
Containers, Flatpak, Immutable distros, it's all wasted effort. There is no magical solution that will solve all our problems. The only way to solve all problems is by solving each problem individually one by one. And that is exactly what countless distribution and package maintainers are doing on your behalf every single day.
When I move my Firefox profile, why does some websites and extensions remember my settings etc, and others don't?
Like Phanpy had forgotten everything, but I was still logged in to my instance. I was still logged in to Reddit, but RES had forgotten my settings, etc.
Aren't all cookies and settings saved in the profile folder?
OMG, #Firefox have added this change in #Nightly where it only shows the domain in the address bar now and I hate it! I genuinely need the rest of the information. I selfhost, so I often need to see the protocol and/or port to see why things aren't working. #FirefoxForAndroid#FirefoxMobile
5 Firefox extensions for Android I can't live without (www.androidpolice.com)
Firefox Relay...