What Browser & Browser Extensions do you use?

jack2px

@davide said:

@jack2px said:
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.

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

Brave’s history is very well organized, and its tab management is much better than in Firefox.

davide

@jack2px said:

@davide said:

@jack2px said:
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.

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

Brave’s history is very well organized, and its tab management is much better than in Firefox.

I'm gonna try Brave on my ASMR phone, which runs Firefox right now for all my late night ASMR needs... What I don't understand about Firefox (mobile) is how history works... or rather doesn't work: when I press the "back" button it often goes back in history by 2 or 3 pages instead of 1. No clue, I suppose it's a "feature" not a bug, to help you jump back quickly to what Mozilla deems your intended target page.

barbaros

@davide said:

@barbaros said:
Sir 90s are calling, they want their UI back.

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.

I do get your point. It is still possible to have modern and minimal UIs. Thanks to browsers' skin support (at least with firefox)

First screenshot just reminds me Win 3.1 when I start using my first PC, so it feels a bit outdated for me.

anakara

I still use Firefox as my main browser. However, I also use Chrome and Edge.

anakara

@Decicus said:
My setup looks something like this:

😇

jure12

Brave !

Carlin0

Brave browser creates a permanent connection to brave.com, but no one knows what it's for

384_cz

My favorite browser is Lynx

skimply153

Browser: Brave
Extensions:
1. Ublock Origin (redundant, but using as fallback)
2. Privacy Badger by EFF
3. Sponsorblock for YouTube
4. Password Manager

fredo1664

I use Edge with Dashlane and Adguard. Also the Redactor thingy from Microsoft. In an uncertain future i will make my own extension to hide "post your invoice number for more spam" threads on LET.

davide

@fredo1664 said:
I use Edge with Dashlane and Adguard. Also the Redactor thingy from Microsoft. In an uncertain future i will make my own extension to hide "post your invoice number for more spam" threads on LET.

There is something already published along that line, called nosunny, toosunny or something, to screen out yoursunny for those with delicate skin :)

It already eliminates LET posts that match a given username, and it could be modified to match a regex in the message body.

sandoz

I use Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock + Ghostery

But for those who are looking for some privacy tunning browsers:

Pale Moon is a good one.
Librewolf (I have it installed but sometimes it is blocked by WAF or is not supported by CF in some websites which is bad. Otherwise I should change Firefox to LibreWolf…)
Waterfox

WebProject

Browser: Edge

Extension: Password Manager

DediRock

Not sure what's it called but the "Merge all windows one" very helpful.

fazar

main browser: chromium
extensions:

• ublock lite
• bitwarden
• wappalyzer

secondary browser: opera, tertiary browser: firefox

TimboJones

@vitobotta said:
I literally just started using Helium and I love how snappy and lightweight it is.

And makes your voice weird.

bdl

@davide said:

@barbaros said:
Sir 90s are calling, they want their UI back.

How does a modern UI look like? Come on drop a screenshot :)

https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

JohnnySac

Brave + Dark Reader, Session Buddy, Bitwarden

itsTomHarper

Brave, Chrome and occasionally Firefox

bikrama

Edge

shallownorthdakota

@bdl said:

@davide said:

@barbaros said:
Sir 90s are calling, they want their UI back.

How does a modern UI look like? Come on drop a screenshot :)

https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

That UI looks the same as my Macbook from 2007.

farsighter

@384_cz said:
My favorite browser is Lynx

Edbrowse is the most frustrating browser ever made for humankind.

penguin23

Vivaldi, the default ad blocking and height customization I like.

iron

I haven't seen the so old UI for years.

davide

@iron said:
I haven't seen the so old UI for years.

Old but practical IMHO. Compare it to those modern apps that lack a dedicated title bar above their window... these are troublesome to merely grab and drag around with the mouse:

However the trend of modern UIs has somewhat shifted toward fullscreen apps with simpler interfaces and limited configurability, which Microsoft describes as "Less chaos, more calm" so perhaps the modern computing experience doesn't need anymore those articulated old style interfaces.

Yack.

Cybr

I migrated my main browser from Chrome to Brave before Google dropped Manifest V2 support to sabotage adblocking extensions.

By the time Brave decides to drop support for MV2 (if they ever do), I'll migrate to a new non-chromium browser. Ladybird looks promising as a new ground-up browser, but still too early in development.

Extensions:

• uBlock Origin (brave's adblocker is good, but uBlock is even better)
• Bitwarden (using my self-hosted Vaultwarden server)
• Global Speed - global hotkeys that override video speed to above 2x on all sites
• Volume Booster - only activate it when content has very low volume level
• YouTube Auto HD - forces min quality so it doesn't randomly change to below 1080p
• SponsorBlock for YouTube - quick skip parts of videos with sponsor reads
• Return YouTube Dislikes

NeedDeal

You can block ads in your router manually
Why use an extensions which steals all your browser history?

shallownorthdakota

@NeedDeal said:
You can block ads in your router manually
Why use an extensions which steals all your browser history?

Some people leave their houses?

fluffernutter

zen browser with:

uBlock Origin

Dark Reader - most websites still don't have good dark modes

SponsorBlock - skips sponsors and bullshit within youtube videos

DeArrow - gets rid of clickbait slop thumbnails and titles

Tampermonkey - needed so I can block dustinc on LET

Unhook - removes youtube recommendations and shorts to avoid time wasting

rockytech

I use Chrome as default and Firefox as secondary.