gentle reminder that chrome people are doing "web environment integrity" bullshit. use firefox or any non-chrome based browser if you like the open and free web.
Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
171–180 of 728 posts
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what's wrong with Super+N? I'm struggling to see the need for a completely new browser instance when you only want another window.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429815
Can you do it in an alternate version such as the developers edition?
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#173Mozilla get a lot of funding directly from Google for making Google the default search site [0]. Seems to me that this may be a problem going forward if Mozilla continue to allow ad blockers in Firefox. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
Yes, attacking the source of revenue that sustains a project is always a sensitive prospect. But then again, what's the alternative for Mozilla? In case of YouTube Premium we've clearly seen that even HN software engineers, demanding six figure pay, will refuse to pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work. Where does Mozilla find funding to sustain itself elsewhere?
i religiously donate each month to mozilla but you wont catch me alive paying for spotify or youtube.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#174Isnt Firefox trying to copy EXACTLY what Chrome is doing with extensions?
Google's marketing is sooo good. Instead of giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, many people are instead instantly complaining that Firefox is not better and it's worth sticking with Chrome anyways. Chrome has not been supporting proper content blocking for years. E.g. Chrome will not wait for content blockers to initialize before sending out requests, so the first website that opens when you start Chrome is prob…
I'm pretty sure this is fixed with the new API for blocking network requests MV3 added. This list of rules is persisted between browser sessions.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, attacking the source of revenue that sustains a project is always a sensitive prospect. But then again, what's the alternative for Mozilla? In case of YouTube Premium we've clearly seen that even HN software engineers, demanding six figure pay, will refuse to pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work. Where does Mozilla find funding to sustain itself elsewhere?
What? We're not refusing to "pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work", we refuse to give in to the extortion attempts of a greedy multi-billion dollar company. I have and will keep financially supporting software I find useful. However, I do agree that it's questionable whether you can easily replace Google as a source of funding.
So it is "extortion" if you are asked to pay for a service you use? A service that is available for free and is very hardware-intensive, mind you.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#176I have been a happy Firefox user for 15 years... maybe more. I have seen people use and complain Internet Explorer in my younger days, from version 6 to 7, etc. Even though I mention Firefox to them, they stay with IE. What amazes me is how quick they transitioned to Google Chrome when it released. This was around 2009. It amazes me how quick people jump to something especially when it has a big company behind advert…
>I just don't understand why people would use Chrome. Really? That seems hard to believe. I stuck with FF until around 2016 or so before being compelled to switch. The performance was just very clearly worse than Chrome's at the time. Not sure what the state of things is now. This is HN, so another huge reason to use Chrome is for the devtools, which I've always had a very good experience with and know pretty well. I…
"I stuck with FF until around 2016 or so before being compelled to switch. The performance was just very clearly worse..."
This is a fair point. Personally, I don't recall seeing a big difference between the two. Maybe there was. Perhaps it was not that bad so it wasn't as issue for me.
As for dev tools, I have been happy with Firefox - but then when I am doing web development I am testing on various browsers, anyway. So I use dev tools for all of them.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
> things like piHole should get a 'new' lease of life. You could never implement what ublock origin does with simple DNS blocking. The way ublock origin works is by going after cross domain requests. But I imagine an HTTP proxy of some kind could do it. You’d get slightly higher latency (because you’d have to parse the HTML doc twice) But installing a chrome extension is piece of cake. Setting up a “pi hole” or proxy…
I've considered the HTTP proxy (anyone remember the fantastic proxomitron?), the problem is it would have to MITM all the HTTPS.
...and interpret all the javascript. Web people love hiding their html behind javascript these days.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#178For those who can't switch away from Chrome extensions yet I recommend trying Vivaldi Made by Opera browser Founder https://vivaldi.com
But if vivaldi is based on chromium doesn't that mean that the same Chrome problems will apply?
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what's wrong with Super+N? I'm struggling to see the need for a completely new browser instance when you only want another window.
He doesn't want a completely new browser instance, he wants Firefox to open another window but depending on its mood Firefox refuses to do this. Chrome can do this just fine btw. Running Firefox from the command line isn't an obscure thing either, clicking a link on other apps like Signal or Telegram also use this method to spawn new tabs/windows. And depending on how you executed the first instance, you run into pro…
No. Sorry. I have a list of complaints with Firefox but this is clearly user error. I do this literally every day for a decade or more. It works fine. It particularly helps to not unnecessarily use things that can affect the env like launching a browser with su. In fact I can I think it a list of things that could go wrong with that.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#180My main issue with Firefox is the unavailability of a decent profile switching. I know there's some hacky way to get the profile system done, but it is not comparable with Chrome's current profile-switching
Won't container tabs fit your use case?