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What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?
  • Although I understand the reasoning beyond the language used in this post, I’m sad to read that hardened privacy is considered a power user thing.

    What's really sad is the fact you need to make a bunch of convenience tradeoffs and go well out of your way for improved privacy, and on a browser that already has a lot of built-in features for privacy. And a downside of using a Firefox fork is not getting the latest Firefox updates ASAP, you have to wait for the fork to update. It goes to show how privacy-invasive the web is.

  • What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    Firefox @fedia.io TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

    What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

    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)

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    Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request!

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    Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request!

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    Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request!

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    Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request!

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    Any APIs or apps that allow for complete keyboard navigation OS-wide, including inside apps

    macOS has a variety of apps like Homerow, Shortcat, and KindaVim (watch the videos in those links if u can) that allow for navigation of apps using just the keyboard. Homerow allows for pressing a hotkey and then showing letters over UI elements which can be entered to move the mouse to said element, similar to the Vim easymotion plugin. KindaVim attempts to implement vim modal navigation inside GUI apps, so you can enter normal or visual mode and use j and k to move up or down. They all work using macOS' accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

    I did a bunch of searches for Linux equivalent of such apps and Mac's accessibility API, and didn't find anything as comprehensive. Can you navigate a wide variety of Linux apps using mostly or only the keyboard (apps made with GTK, Electron, etc.)? Is it currently possible to develop an equivalent of the apps listed above?

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    Any APIs or apps that allow for complete keyboard navigation OS-wide, including inside apps

    macOS has a variety of apps like Homerow, Shortcat, and KindaVim (watch the videos in those links if u can) that allow for navigation of apps using just the keyboard. Homerow allows for pressing a hotkey and then showing letters over UI elements which can be entered to move the mouse to said element, similar to the Vim easymotion plugin. KindaVim attempts to implement vim modal navigation inside GUI apps, so you can enter normal or visual mode and use j and k to move up or down. They all work using macOS' accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

    I did a bunch of searches for Linux equivalent of such apps and Mac's accessibility API, and didn't find anything as comprehensive. Can you navigate a wide variety of Linux apps using mostly or only the keyboard (apps made with GTK, Electron, etc.)? Is it currently possible to develop an equivalent of the apps listed above?

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    Any APIs or apps that allow for complete keyboard navigation OS-wide, including inside apps

    macOS has a variety of apps like Homerow, Shortcat, and KindaVim (watch the videos in those links if u can) that allow for navigation of apps using just the keyboard. Homerow allows for pressing a hotkey and then showing letters over UI elements which can be entered to move the mouse to said element, similar to the Vim easymotion plugin. KindaVim attempts to implement vim modal navigation inside GUI apps, so you can enter normal or visual mode and use j and k to move up or down. They all work using macOS' accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

    I did a bunch of searches for Linux equivalent of such apps and Mac's accessibility API, and didn't find anything as comprehensive. Can you navigate a wide variety of Linux apps using mostly or only the keyboard (apps made with GTK, Electron, etc.)? Is it currently possible to develop an equivalent of the apps listed above?

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    Firefox Customs @fedia.io TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Firefox CSS @lemm.ee TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Firefox @fedia.io TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Is it possible to get this effect of blurring tab content behind the top bar in Firefox?

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    Mozilla: Help us improve our alt text generation model

    blog.mozilla.org Help us improve our alt text generation model | The Mozilla Blog

    Image generated by DALL-E in response to a request for a photorealistic image of a fox standing in a grassy landscape. Firefox 130 introduces automatic alt

    Help us improve our alt text generation model | The Mozilla Blog
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    Is the Gecko engine the only reason Mozilla still exists?
  • No way in hell would Proton make a Chromium-based browser, the only way that would not be hypocritical is if they fully open sourced it (you could compile it yourself), and maintained their own fork completely devoid of Google tracking and telemetry.

  • Is the Gecko engine the only reason Mozilla still exists?
  • Right now I don't think Proton would do much better than existing options. There are browsers on different ends of the privacy to convenience spectrum (and these are all Gecko based):

    • Firefox: decent privacy by default without changing any settings
    • Librewolf: Firefox but with hardened settings for privacy
    • Mullvad Browser: Almost the same as Tor but not on the Tor network, which is admittedly slow
    • Tor: Uses the Tor Network and by default very hardened for Privacy but makes lots of convenience and QoL tradeoffs, including letterboxing to common browser resolutions.
  • How do you filter ads and trackers outside of a browser while still using a VPN service?
  • I installed the app from FDroid and it does in fact have on-device blocklists.

    I did a search and found this comment, https://reddit.com/r/rethinkdns/comments/1f7ydjo/git_vs_fdroid_google_play_app_version/

    After v055b, we hit numerous bugs (and unbelievably difficult ones) in our WireGuard integration. Released v055c and subsequent versions to fix the most annoying bugs among them.

    We paused Play Store builds at v055e because each new version since has had its own glaringly annoying bugs (that were of course fixed in the subsequent versions). Why? Play Store brings in the most number of Rethink users (per our estimate), and we decided to halt publishing there until we can figure out how to stablize Rethink's feature-set affected by WireGuard.

    Pausing roll-out like this is a one-off.

    Typically, you can expect all flavours (GitHub / Website / Play Store & F-Droid) to be at the same version.

    If you're feeling particularly adventurous: You can temporairly seamlessly update (without having to reinstall) to the GitHub / Website version if you're currently using Rethink installed from the Play Store. And then later, when Play Store catches up, update from Play Store again.

  • If you use Simplelogin with your iCloud email, how has your mileage been?
  • No I did end up changing my studentaid email to an SL alias, though I might wanna change it back if it keeps having issues. The issue is that icloud bounced the email, and SimpleLogin itself gave me an email each time one got bounced, with to go to simplelogin.com and see the bounced email. This is the title for each one

    An email sent to your alias redacted@simplelogin.com from donotreply@studentaid.gov was bounced by your mailbox redacted@icloud.com