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6 votes
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How Google is building a browser monopoly
17 votes -
Give Firefox a chance for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
27 votes -
Chrome 0-day exploit CVE-2019-13720 used a race condition and a Use-After-Free to install persistent malware on Windows
10 votes -
Firenvim - embed Neovim in to Firefox/Chrome
12 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
20 votes -
Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
5 votes -
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
26 votes -
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
17 votes -
[Chrome 82, 2020Q2] Deprecate FTP support
7 votes -
Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions? I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better....
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
19 votes -
Bigger Rewards for Security Bugs
6 votes -
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
24 votes -
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
7 votes -
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
37 votes -
Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
17 votes -
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome
55 votes -
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
50 votes -
The rapid rise and slow fall of the Microsoft web browser
6 votes -
Edge-on-Chromium approaches; build leaks, extensions page already live
4 votes -
Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 votes -
Turn on auto-updates everywhere you can
13 votes -
Microsoft rolls out new Skype for Web. Unless you use Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Linux
9 votes -
Chrome update on March 1 fixed a serious zero-day RCE vulnerability that was being actively exploited
10 votes -
Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
36 votes -
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
11 votes -
I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything
38 votes -
Most useful Chrome extensions
What are the most useful Chrome extensions that you have come across? I use this extension called Workona, which has been just amazing at dealing with my obsession with having hundreds of tabs open.
19 votes -
Google Chrome’s users take a back seat to its bottom line
16 votes -
Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t.
28 votes -
Google announces "Project Stream", a test of streaming Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome (signup available)
10 votes -
Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
6 votes -
Chrome's new forced login policy is a violation of user privacy and trust
50 votes -
Planned updates for Chrome 70 to give more control of browser sign-in, show sync state, and clear all cookies
30 votes -
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10
66 votes -
Celebrating 10 years of V8
4 votes -
Brave browser gets Chrome's extensions starting Thursday with major new version
20 votes -
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one)
13 votes -
Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes -
Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google
8 votes -
Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
14 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
Stylish browser extension snatches your browsing history---the open source Stylus is recommended instead
33 votes -
Google removes the option of installing Chrome extensions via remote sites
11 votes -
Tildes Extended
I posted about it three days ago but in these last three days I really worked my ass off to include lots of functionalities and feel like the community is missing a lot of topics... So, sorry, I...
I posted about it three days ago but in these last three days I really worked my ass off to include lots of functionalities and feel like the community is missing a lot of topics...
So, sorry, I won't spam this for the next days every three days but I felt like it deserved to be "bumped" in the activity feed at least once now that the default is just 24h.As of today, the features are:
- management to choose which links top open in a new tab
- button to quickly jump to new comments in a topic
- button to quickly get back to the top of the page in topics (no, there isn't one to go to the bottom)
- live preview of the reply/topic box
- load external CSS to customize the UI
- add label to users
I'll just link to the original topic so you can have some context if you want, otherwise these are just the links to download it:
- Original Topic: https://tildes.net/~tildes/1oa/browser_extension_tildes_extended
- Chrome: chrome.google.com
- Firefox: addons.mozilla.org
- Source: Github (feel free to do modification and open pull requests if you'd like!)
I need feedback to know what else you'd like to see implemented or what have bugs or could be done in a different/better way!
37 votes -
Tildes Extended
So it all begun as a [something]monkey script but I decided to give it a try to web extensions after several years of not touching it. If you don't care about the yada yada, skip right at the...
So it all begun as a [something]monkey script but I decided to give it a try to web extensions after several years of not touching it.
If you don't care about the yada yada, skip right at the bottom now.
Why
So the whole thing revolve around a simple concept: I'd like tildes to remain as lightweight as possible with a simple and clean interface and not too many user settings.
We don't know the full structure of the code yet but, by experience, frontend and backend require quite an effort to be kept in balance so that one or either don't becomes a mess.From this idea, the next step has been quite obvious. Users that would like a more advanced frontend experience could just download an extension (probably an app for mobile once it becomes possible).
What
Right now the extension does some simple things. It is basically just a porting of the script I made some time ago so you'll get non-tildes link in a new tab and a button to jump to new comments in a topic you already visited.
The extension don't retain any user data. it doesn't care who you are or what you browse. If you're unsure you can check the source code (below).Future Goals
The immediate priority is to create a "settings" page so you can customize how the features should behave. As an example, about the links in new tab, letting you decide which kind of links should behave like this: all / comment's / text submission's / etc etc. I'm still thinking which are reasonable use-case
After that, I want to try and implement a user's labelling system and that is the reason for the app already requesting access to storage data on the browser. I've yet to figure it out but the gist of it is that I'll store something like
username:tag
duplet in your browserlocalstorage
and on load of a page, check for usernames match and add the label you choose.Additional Notes
I know the code is dirty. As I said, I didn't touch extensions since... I think more than 6 years ago. Maybe more.
On top of that, I went for jquery and am more of a modern framework JS developer with a strong preference and background as backend developer, so... you know.
I still think I'll stick to jquery because the syntax is quite clear and I want even non-technical people to be able to understand what's going on in the code if they want to double check.If you want to contribute you're more than welcome but keep in mind that most basic things are still missing. To mention just a couple:
- settings page
- proper isolation of content scripts
- guidelines or at least a sample to use to implement new features
if you have any resource that you used to build something similar (web extension or the like) please share them as I've a goddamn long commute every day and have time to read :)
Links
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tildes-extended/
- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tildes-extended/dinimcigfnjcblajimodbacmbknmicgl/related
- Source: https://github.com/theCrius/tildes-extended
It should work on any fork of Chrome as well.
I can't assure the same for future development.
Current features:
- Link in new tabs management
- Button to jump to new comments in topics
- Add custom CSS from external URL
- Markdown Preview
- Add User's labels
34 votes -
Evolving Chrome's security indicators - October 2018 (Chrome 70) release, all HTTP sites to be marked with red "not secure" indicator when inputting data
9 votes