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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by mariusor »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #101
mariusor wrote: post #95

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I am probably not understand your use-case correctly but there's a `--new-window` flag on the firefox binary. You can use that to open new windows under the same profile.

You can easily try jourself. 1) Have Firefox open 2) Start a root terminal (or a normal one and then "sudo su" 3) sudo -u normaluser firefox --new-window example.com It will refuse to start.

Erm.... that is a completely different problem.

Do the following: sudo -EHs su, then as root sudo -EH -u {username} firefox --new-window

I'll leave to you the exercise of learning what the flags do, and implicitly why it fails in your case.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by vodkapump »

jacquesm wrote: post #455
Dah00n wrote: post #380

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>to get the EU digital markets update, which lets you uninstall Edge. Again — as a former anti-EU person — I am reminded why I am now pro-EU. While nowhere perfect it is much better than not having an EU and way, way better than the US.

I've come across many anti EU persons and there are some broad categories: - the uninformed, they have no idea about how the EU came about or what it does, but they're against it anyway - the people on the receiving end of the regulations (anti-trust, advertisers, marketeers, bankers, data sellers etc). They have a very good idea about what it does, but it interferes with their preferred way of getting to more cash.…

You forgot one:

- Don't touch my fish

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by robertlagrant »

ryan-c wrote: post #683
robertlagrant wrote: post #407

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They have $400m coming in every year - surely enough to keep up with main changes if engineering were prioritised, with a large stash to invest for the future. But still - what reality is there to face? At absolute worse we...switch browser in 10 years?

Idiots still do user agent checks and block anything they don't explicitly support.

I use Firefox every day and I don't see this. Can you elaborate on how you know this?

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by seec »

jacquesm wrote: post #480
FergusArgyll wrote: post #473

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- People who are employed by "the people on the receiving end of the regulations" and therefore get lower wages than in the US Switzerland is the outlier, after the US it's a pretty steep drop. this is adjusted for Purchasing Power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

Average wage is a very narrow view of what ultimately translates into quality of life. You couldn't pay me to live in the US. I've gotten very close to immigration, but after seeing up close what kind of predatory situation a new immigrant into the US lands in I figured it isn't for me. Though I totally understand why you would want to move there if you are from a country in Asia or Latin America. Then it is a huge s…

I don't know much about Sweden salaries but if it's close enough to general EU I believe it might be MUCH harder to get a net 50K job in Sweden than a net 100K job in the US.

Sure, in the US you will have less "prepaid" services or might need to pay much more for specific stuff but that's kind of the point of freedom of choices. You get to make your own mistakes without entering a collectivist group that on average is bound to make more costly mistakes.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jraph »

HenryBemis wrote: post #656
jraph wrote: post #79

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Don't you aspire to do the right things, or at least to avoid doing the wrong things? I don't understand what drives you. You were pestering your friends to switch to Signal and Firefox for privacy reasons and then you bought GAFAM stock? Aren't you actively going against your ideals by doing this? Also, what a mix up! You managed to mention pedophiles in your comment?! Your reasoning is very hard to follow. You ment…

Not mutually exclusive. I can feel bad for my friends who insist on using WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook. That's their choice to do. I am not friends with 7bn people. I am extrapolating and considering that majority of humans care more for convenience and much-much-less on Privacy. And since I cannot do anything about it, I am doing what I can do about it. Make sure my family has a better future. People feel both good and…

Yeah, but there's a difference between eating junk food (once in a while) and investing in a junk food company, isn't it?

Surely you can invest in something else?

But you do you of course :-)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jve »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #621
tentacleuno wrote: post #601

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> No it's not, you can change it. Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bo…

>switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops Settings -> Privacy, search and services -> Address bar and search 3 steps are "jumping through a surprising amount of hoops" for you?

In the past, one would right click on omnibar/searchbar/addressbar and modify search engines from there... Now it really takes a search within settings to find it - and it takes prior knowledge that these things are possible :)

TLDR: I use Edge as my primary browser.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ghusto »

eloisant wrote: post #590
ghusto wrote: post #436

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You don't need profiles in Firefox, there's a much better solution called Container Tabs. If you're using profiles to keep things like work and play separate, check it out and thank me later ;)

Yes I checked container tabs, but they still don't fix my issue. - I click on a Google Doc work link from Slack, I want it to open in my work profile - I click on a Google Doc link from the WhatsApp desktop app, I want it to open in my home profile With Chrome I just need to make sure that the last focused Chrome window is from the right profile. I really want to switch back to Firefox but that's blocking me.

> With Chrome I just need to make sure that the last focused Chrome window is from the right profile.

There's a setting to always open a tab in the same container profile you click on them from. So as long as you open the page with the link in the target profile, it will open in that profile too — same as what you're saying above, I think?

There's also an easy "open in new container tab" option when right clicking a tab, and "re-open this site in ..." option when clicking on the container tabs extension button.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ghusto »

esperent wrote: post #673
ghusto wrote: post #432

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It's build into Firefox. If you're on a page not in your default language, a translate icon will appear in the URL bar. Click, done :)

Yeah, I see they added that in the last but one release. However it's only for a tiny number of European languages, and not the one I need which is Vietnamese.

Shame, though I'd watch that space because I think they're adding more languages.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by michaelt »

sgift wrote: post #655
michaelt wrote: post #611

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> Well, if that's what they believe they are comically misinformed. Ah yes, you've just reminded me of one of the other issues: Some Remain campaigners had difficulty engaging with people who were on the fence about the EU without calling them ignorant yokels. > It's going to be a long road back to inclusivity and if and when that happens you can bet that it won't be the nice exceptional situation that was there befo…

> Ah yes, you've just reminded me of one of the other issues: Some Remain campaigners had difficulty engaging with people who were on the fence about the EU without calling them ignorant yokels. In other words: The truth hurt. And out of spite they cut off their own nose. Well, whatever works for them.

> In other words: The truth hurt.

There it is again.

Let's not engage with the person in an economically deprived area who suspects that increasing the supply of workers might lower wages, or the person who's struggling to afford a house who suspects that increased demand for housing might raise prices.

Unfortunately the remain campaign seemed to have very few people who could engage with the substance of such arguments, in the language of the people who hold them - like pointing out a lot of immigrants are working in the construction industry, building more houses.

For every one campaigner who could engage in such discussion convincingly, remain seemed to have ten ready to sneer at such voters' comical ignorance and mutter that they were a closet racist. You can see how that went.

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