cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28686610

Vertical tabs made a lot of headlines when they hit nightly months ago and they were a bit jank, never quite feeling like they're part of the browser. After updating to 133.0 though, turning on the sidebar revamp (sidebar.revamp) and vertical tabs (sidebar.verticalTabs) in about:config now work so well!

There's no blank space hovering between the address bar and top of the window, tab previews work well on hover. Finally I can ditch Sidebery and it's pulled me back over from flirting with Zen and I'm using this setup full time now <3

Right now is the best period of time yet for Firefox-based browser, especially when most alternative browsers are Chrome-based.

While there are a bunch of forks like Librewolf and Palemoon, they provide features mainly for power users like hardened privacy and tweaked user-prefs. A year ago the only fork I knew of, based on recent stable versions of Firefox and added productivity features on top was Floorp. I was very surprised at the hype and sudden popularity of Zen Browser in the past few months and have been curious why it grew so much faster than Floorp which has been around for much longer, look at the Github star graph: https://star-history.com/#zen-browser/desktop&Date. Zen Browser currently has 19.3K stars while Floorp has 6.1K.

Reasons I can think of are the following: heavy promotion of the browser by the devs and community on places like Reddit along with emphasizing its 'zen' philosophy, really fast development (it now has way more features than Floorp), and the Zen mods store, where you can install CSS mods.

What are your thoughts and reasons for Zen Browser becoming so popular so fast? (while its not mainstream, it did grow fast in among Firefox and power users)

Edit:

Seems like three of these were posted on the same day for some reason:

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I have seen that Mozilla have implemented sponsored links on the startpagein Firefox.

At first I was slightly annoyed, but the more I think about it, the better I feel.

Firefox needs new revenue streams, they can't depend on Google any more, and if some small sponsored Links helps pay the bills without Google, I am all for it!

What do you think about it?

The devs released Fennec 132.0.0 some days ago. If you didn't update, it's more than time. It's also good news for mull.

I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

``` <span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div> ```

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

I know I can press right but I'm just wondering if it can be done by default

Firefox 131, btw.

To replicate this bug,

go to https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32f091rc.html#documentation

tap-hold on one of the documents there,

download link..

Where is it?

It isn't in Downloads..

Firefox says it was downloaded successfully..

OK, so what happens if I Open it?

It opens!!

So, it's saving it to its cache,

& calling that "downloaded", or something??

It's bullying/wrong/abuse, is what it is.

BTW, it doesn't matter if I've tossed all my apps, then rebooted the tablet,

nor does it matter if I toss Firefox & on restarting it just try opening the document in a different private-tab ( open link in new private-tab ), then use the Download button in the top-left:

FF's still fucking me over for the documentation I'm trying to get.

It does seem to be a Heisenbug, intermittent & .. not obvious what the hell the key is, to make it predictable..

Last boot-session it had allowed me to get the Specs .pdf,

but then none of the Application Notes ( damn ALL of them ) appeared in the Downloads folder, when I checked..

Maybe it's seeing if the file has EVER been downloaded, or tried-to-download, & if so, it's vetoing my getting my hands on it?

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( if anybody cares:

the Nucleo-64 boards that "Bare Metal C", a NoStarch Press book, works with, apparently include the Nucleo-F091RC board, which may be more powerful than the board that "Bare Metal C" was written for.

https://nostarch.com/bare-metal-c

I can't remember the details, but this particular board should be compatible, and have more memory, at least.

This microcontroller is the one on the Nucleo-F091RC board.

That is why I want to be reading the Reference Manual & the Programmer's Manual, & all the Application Notes for it..

Someday I'll be able to afford the hardware, too.. : )

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PS: If this community wants my bug-report deleted from here,

( & obviously Mozilla removed their bug-reporting feature from Firefox/Android, to eradicate bug-reports from Android FF users )

then remove this, & that's fine.

I've no problem with either way:

world wants it gone,

XOR world permits the bug-report to exist.

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