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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by vjerancrnjak » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:19 PM UTC

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #101

vjerancrnjak wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it on mobile and it's interesting that quite a lot of websites are broken. Many tapping workflows I had in Chrome on Android are fully broken in Firefox. From simple deepl.com to Google products that look like they dropped FF support. Even Reddit on Firefox PC crashes occasionally (the whole site turns white while browsing). Reddit on FF on Android is barely browsable.

I haven't encountered any issue with Firefox for Android for years. Here's how you can fix this all at once: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g3tyfu/how_to_swit... Google is intentionally breaking support for Firefox on their websites. Other just don't care and support monopolies.

Thanks, interesting, I'll try it out. I know I convinced my wife to switch to Firefox for Android (for uBlock) and she was complaining even more than I about all of her browsing workflows being crippled.

Compared to her I rarely use my phone for browsing, I do not feel as impacted.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by aliqot » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

duffyjp wrote: post #47

rexreed wrote: post #14

If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/

w3m is my go to console browser. It does a better job displaying a site in a coherent way than lynx (IMO). I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg.

> I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg.

well there goes my weekend :) I didn't know this was possible, thank you

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by wendyshu » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

There needs to be a word for these projects that are a UI layer on top of a preexisting browser engine. Calling it a "new browser" is a little confusing.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by aliqot » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

bityard wrote: post #115

From reading the headline, I was hopeful that this would be one of my most desired apps that doesn't exist yet: a browser that renders pages in Reader Mode, but all the time. Unfortunately this is just a regular browser with "minimal" only meaning practically no UI.

I want that so bad. I'd even take a plugin that could make it a hard setting that you turn on for the day.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by dijit » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:25 PM UTC

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #101

vjerancrnjak wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it on mobile and it's interesting that quite a lot of websites are broken. Many tapping workflows I had in Chrome on Android are fully broken in Firefox. From simple deepl.com to Google products that look like they dropped FF support. Even Reddit on Firefox PC crashes occasionally (the whole site turns white while browsing). Reddit on FF on Android is barely browsable.

I haven't encountered any issue with Firefox for Android for years. Here's how you can fix this all at once: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g3tyfu/how_to_swit... Google is intentionally breaking support for Firefox on their websites. Other just don't care and support monopolies.

Firefox does seem to be untested for a lot of websites.

You can't do video calls with Teams in firefox for a really clear and obvious example, but I encounter breakages quite often and have to switch back to Chrome.

Safari suffers the same, but I get the impression people are testing safari more than Chrome.. but I hear so many complaints on hackernews about safari, I suspect at some point Chrome penetration will finally dislodge Safari on MacOS... or if MacOS market share goes down: then it's over and we have a total monopoly.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by black7375 » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:26 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #20

xnacly wrote: post #3

A browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!

The advantage of Min would be the UI, which I find quite appealing myself.

Firefox's design is more custom than you think.

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/Show-Off-Yo... https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/pull/511

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by entropicdrifter » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #53

Terretta wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or Safari of course, it's really a great browser if one's on the Mac. The venerable iCab or new Orion from Kagi shows what's possible here. https://www.icab.de/ https://browser.kagi.com/ Kagi's Orion runs Firefox and Chrome extensions, including on iOS, and of course works with Kagi search, which is enough better that it's worth switching from Google/Bing/DDG. --- EDIT to add, on iCab, it's been updated as of 2020,…

>Kagi search, which is enough better that it's worth switching from Google/Bing/DDG. But highly unlikely to be better enough to justify paying a subscription for it (for most people, anyway), so it's always going to be confined to a small niche of users.

Yeah, I'd rather just use StartPage

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by aliqot » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

thunderbong wrote: post #84

Everyone's comparing this to a regular browser. But since it's electron based, I'm just wondering whether this could be a path to creating a really good browser for development. As of now, most of the debugging that's done on browsers are either based on the tools provided by the browser itself, or via extensions and add-ons. I just hope, this kind of paves the way for developers themselves to add features and capabi…

All of the testimonials are broken on Sizzy for me

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by jxdxbx » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

xnacly wrote: post #3

A browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!

Yeah, when I saw that, I decided not to bother even checking it out. Your app has to be really essential if you expect me to used a bloated, glorified web app.