I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.
> I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.
Fair point, I didn't mean to disparage Firefox it's just the only one I've ever used.
Nice extension. But I'd say that the legislation is alright, it's these sites that are terrible. They put these modals because they want to.
The legislation has the right heart, but its wording is problematic and leaves up too much on interpretation, so most sites who technically wouldn't need it just default to a cookie banner to be 'on the safe side'. Combine that with the zealots (I've had an user complain about the absence of a cookie banner on a site that clearly did not need one), them potentially becoming a lawsuit initiator, and you got the mess y…
Yes. Moreover this law, while good intentioned, seems like a somewhat misplaced effort against tracking. Cookie tracking is easy to disable and not really worrysome. The elephant on the room is google play services tracking all android users with no way to disable it. Now, that should be forbidden by law.
My de-facto set of extensions: - uBlock Origin - Cookie AutoDelete - "I Don't Care About Cookies" (It auto-OKs cookie consent banners) - Archive.org's Wayback Machine (A must have in this era of link rot) Optional: - Tablist (easily lets me copy out all the URLs of open tabs for 'later') - User Agent Switcher (Needed less these days, but useful for exploring the DOM of mobile versions of sites) Additionally, I have w…
Your custom launcher is basically the manual version of using Multi-Account Containers and Temporary Containers for Firefox by the way.
My list: The essential one: Ublock Origin of course; surfing the web without it is next to impossible today. -A bit less essential but very helpful: HTTPS Everywhere: forces the browser to connect to secure pages anyway. Privacy Badger: by the EFF. Blocks trackers. uMatrix: NoScript on steroids. Allows to turn off parts of the web page with deep granularity (filter by domain and type of data). Needs "training", not f…
Privacy Badger is unnecessary, it's a worse version of uBlock.
Also HTTPS Everywhere can be replaced with the Force HTTPS option natively implemented in Firefox.
Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed! Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune…
Can I now has 4x speedup for meetings?
Sure. You now have time for 4x more meetings! Enjoy!
Edgar Dijkstra's 1988 Paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" It's just a paper, but still I'd recommend it, because it was highly influential. It was indeed so influential that it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cruelty_of_Really_Teach... In the paper he argues that - the computer industy has been progressing with exponential growth 1948-1988, - will continue to do…
Okay, but how do I get Edsger(!) Dijkstra as a Firefox add-on? ;-)
My de-facto set of extensions: - uBlock Origin - Cookie AutoDelete - "I Don't Care About Cookies" (It auto-OKs cookie consent banners) - Archive.org's Wayback Machine (A must have in this era of link rot) Optional: - Tablist (easily lets me copy out all the URLs of open tabs for 'later') - User Agent Switcher (Needed less these days, but useful for exploring the DOM of mobile versions of sites) Additionally, I have w…
Your custom launcher is basically the manual version of using Multi-Account Containers and Temporary Containers for Firefox by the way.