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What Browser & Browser Extensions do you use?
My favorite browser: FALKON.
It's easy to customize, write add-ons for, twist viscerally and recompile to add features that are so good that should be illegal. It has an external PIP Youtube player, a C++ compiled adblocker faster than any JavaScript garbage that other browsers have. Best of the best, etc...
HOWEVER.
It is built on top of Chromium 87.0 released about 20 years ago, and 95% of the modern web doesn't work anymore on it. Even Google Search doesn't work anymore. Even ServerVerify doesn't work on it. Real tragedies here.
So I'm curious to see what browser you have settled on and what extensions you use for productivity.
Screenshots time!
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Sir 90s are calling, they want their UI back.
My setup looks something like this:
i use zen with ublock, violentmonkey with adguard and bypass all shortlinks script
those were the cool days.
what sorcery is this? and why is this?
Confirmed, we even have a picture of @Decicus using his laptop:
Back in ye olden days, every software installer ever would always bundle some sketchy as balls browser toolbar
If you just clicked "Next" blindly, your browser would end up looking like that.
firefox, vivaldi, floorp, chromium, (sometimes k-meleon, lat version sadly 10y old)
Who the fuck calls their browser Qupzilla.
Brave and metamask
Just missing the Comet Cursor and a half-dozen pop-ups.
For the last 10-15 yeras I use Firefox. I don't need much on top, so ublock origin, RES, exif viewer, bitwarden and couple other plugins.
Floorp looks like nice modern alternative, I tried it on one computer but didn't convert to it just yet. It has the tabs in sidebar and some other enhancements I already forgot about.
I also have Falkon installed when I tried to see if my website menu works well (it does), it's quick and lightweight. As you say it's because it's old. I just checked, I have version 3.1, built on Chromium 69. That's the lack of package management on Windows, otherwise it would be automatically kept on latest version. But about anything I tried worked fine there, not sure why it wouldn't given that 90% of web are simple CRUD apps with fancy styling on top.
firefox and ungoogled-chromium.
Where possible (which is pleasantly often) Falkon or even netsurf, else a kind of special version of ungoogled chromium or firefox, always with an adblocker and very few other add-ons.
Overall I feel that almost all browsers are bloated monstrosities and so are very many websites, plus: what kind of a choice is "you basically can have an evil corporation's monstrosity or a woke mental asylum's monstrosity" (chrome or firefox)?
Oh, to answer the question: Hardened Firefox. Minimal addons. UBlock for the stuff DNS based ad-blocking doesn't catch. Ghostery, because sites like LowEndTalk use retarded 3rd services instead of self-hosting analytics, ads, etc.
A custom build of chromium.
makes it so that I can do anything I want to it.
Plus its a cool side project to work on
Browser: Firefox Firefox-ESR Chromium
Addons:
inevitable → uBlock Origin and NoScript
Optionals → Privacy Badger and CanvasBlocker
Luakit with pants unbuttoned
Firefox with,
Absolute Enable right clk/paste
BetterSnap
Bitwarden
Netflux(I'm on linux, and I want to stream higher than 720p)
TWP - Translate web pages
ublock origin
always active window
The "mental asylum's monstrosity" acquires an insulting tone when you realize that all of the "privacy first" features (Do-Not-Track HTTP header, copy link w/o tracking, ...) are useless appendices good for nothing in practice except product branding. Because Mozilla is a "democratic corporation" yadda yadda that places users before profits. Okay... But then they track my online activity just as well. And place ads on my fucking home screen just as well.
how hardened?
This hard.
I literally just started using Helium and I love how snappy and lightweight it is.
How does a modern UI look like? Come on drop a screenshot :)
For me it's not nostalgia but a pragmatic problem of poor usability with modern UIs; the trend of modernization has long foregone the peak affordance of the 90s interfaces and has recessed into a dark age where every UI widget is poorly understandable in function. Often you gotta hover over buttons, because they are unlabeled and marked only by an unintelligible icon, perhaps hoping that a textual tooltip pops up to describe what that button is supposed to do. Or those websites with gray-on-gray text and missing scrollbars that make every interaction miserable.
Between NeXTStep from 30 years ago:
and something else, randomly fashionable this week:
I'd pick the one where I don't have to squint right off the desktop screen.
Browser extensions are the LEAST secure thing on the internet. And I already considered if the Trolls need mental help in comparison.
I used Firefox for more than 18 years, and a month ago I decided to try the Brave browser and it’s been incredible.
Firefox used a lot of CPU and memory, but now with Brave it’s very lightweight; I don’t need more than two extensions.
Long live the Lion King
How do tabs and history look like on Brave? Never tried it myself because it's not in the Debian repositories and I'm scared of running any external software
+1 for brave.