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3 votes
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Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model
4 votes -
Firefox 67 released - Updates focused on performance and privacy
23 votes -
Tor Browser 8.5 released
11 votes -
Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets
14 votes -
I challenge you to use Epiphany for a week!
When Edge died, I got worried about loosing competition to the Blink engine and as such, I went exploring other alternatives to realize.. there's not a whole lot, there's blink, gecko and webkit....
When Edge died, I got worried about loosing competition to the Blink engine and as such, I went exploring other alternatives to realize.. there's not a whole lot, there's blink, gecko and webkit.
So with that, I decided to try epiphany - Gnome's web browser. It uses Webkit which is what Blink was forked from so it's not terribly different in theory but the years apart has made that more apparent. It's fairly elegant in my opinion and it lacks some features, sure.
Anyways, to get to what I wanted to do this week, well, I'd like to challenge you all to use it for a week, mostly for bug hunting purposes and possibly to throw ideas at the project. Worth mentioning, I'm not affiliated with the project, just a user.
So to make sure we're all on the same page, we'll use the development Epiphany flatpak, this way we can be sure that the problem is in the current codebase. So, to install it :
Let's install the gnome-nightly repos as per instructions here :
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-apps-nightly --from https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps-nightly.flatpakrepo
Then, let's install the development version by doing so :
flatpak install org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel
Then just launch it and have fun with it!
if you run into any bugs, look at the contribution guide here and report the bugs in the repo after checking that the bug is not already present of course!
12 votes -
Firefox bug: All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
64 votes -
Technical details on the recent Firefox add-on outage
11 votes -
Firefox 66.0.4 has been released - fixes disabled extensions/add-ons
16 votes -
A conspiracy to kill IE6
12 votes -
Chromium-based preview builds of Microsoft Edge are now available for Windows 10
12 votes -
Microsoft Edge's build system runs on Linux
@kylealden: @VOsikwemhe @MSEdgeDev Not yet - it's something we'd like to do eventually (our build system runs on Linux) but we're taking things one step at a time starting from Win10, and can't commit to Linux just yet.
5 votes -
Protections against fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining available in Firefox Nightly and Beta
16 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 -
Today’s Firefox release aims to reduce your online annoyances
38 votes -
How secure and private is Firefox?
I was browsing r/privacy today and I came across this guy going on about how Mozilla was just pretending to be privacy focused. Here's his comment. Now I don't really know what to think of this,...
I was browsing r/privacy today and I came across this guy going on about how Mozilla was just pretending to be privacy focused. Here's his comment. Now I don't really know what to think of this, and frankly, I'm getting really exhausted of hearing about how all the things I'm using aren't actually trustworthy. So can so someone put my mind to rest? Does this guy's claims have any truth to them? Thanks.
20 votes -
Mozilla releases Iodide, an open source browser tool for publishing dynamic data science
14 votes -
Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 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 -
The Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked To Try
10 votes -
By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
69 votes -
Intelligent Tracking Protection 2.1 in WebKit
4 votes -
Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
36 votes -
Adblockers Performance Study - A detailed analysis of the performance of some of the most popular content-blocker engines
18 votes -
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
11 votes -
Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
49 votes -
The "Do Not Track" Setting Doesn't Stop You from Being Tracked
20 votes -
Firefox 65 release notes
24 votes -
Microsoft Edge browser flags Daily Mail Online as untrustworthy
24 votes -
Firefox: Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture
12 votes -
On building your favourite web browser from source
25 votes -
Let's build a browser engine in Rust! Part 1 of 7
16 votes -
Let's talk browsers
I've tried a lot of browsers. Starting from Chrome, to Chromium, to Firefox, to Links, to w3m, to, eventually, Qutebrowser, which I use for most of my browsing now. At least for me, I had four...
I've tried a lot of browsers. Starting from Chrome, to Chromium, to Firefox, to Links, to w3m, to, eventually, Qutebrowser, which I use for most of my browsing now.
At least for me, I had four things in mind while choosing a browser:
- I want it to be light
- I want it to be minimal
- I want it to be keyboard-oriented
- I want it to be able to use modern websites
I won't be going through all the browsers I've tried, but those I mentioned are the big ones, so I'll just do a quick check-list of these things.
Chrome/Chromium:
- Weighs like a sumo wrestler 1/5
- Cluttered 1/5
- Just some shortcuts and extentions 3/5
- The model, the idol to strife for 5/5
Firefox:
- Apparently lighter than Chromium, though not by much 1/5
- Cluttered 1/5
- Some shortcuts, famous extensions 3/5
- On point 5/5
Links:
- Very light and fast 5/5
- Minimal, though can go smaller 4/5
- Yes 5/5
- Doesn't support javascript 1/5
w3m:
- As light as it gets 6/5
- Pretty damn minimal 5/5
- Even works for blind 5/5
- Does javascript, but hard to use with cluttered wesites like Reddit or any news site 3/5
Qutebrowser:
- It is quite small and feels fast 4/5
- Can be easily modified to not have anything on screen, and command line-like controls 5/5
- Great, but hint system fails with javascript 4/5
- Doesn't work with Reddit, for some reason 4/5
With the things that I look for, Qutebrowser is the answer, with w3m being the close second. Of course, there are different things to look for in a piece of software, and you may want the extra stability and extensions Firefox provides, or privacy of Tor browser, or the suckless nature of surf, so I'd like to hear what is your browser of choice!
17 votes -
Tom Scott warns viewers that Brave donations do not reach him
@tomscott: This warning is prompted by a company called Brave, who've been taking cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent. I asked them not to, and to refund anyone who's donated; they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".
33 votes -
Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
22 votes -
Do you use an alternative browser? Which one? Why?
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf....
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf. Do you use any of these alternative browsers? If yes, why, and why did you pick that particular one? I'd be interested to read why not, too.
28 votes -
Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details
8 votes -
Firefox 64 release notes
For general users: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/ For web developers: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released/
31 votes -
New Brave version now available for download for iPhones and iPads, with significant performance gains
3 votes -
The state of web browsers - 2019 edition
7 votes -
Anyone using the BRAVE web browser? Thoughts? Experiences?
I was reading about it here: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/ First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of...
I was reading about it here:
https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/
First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of blocking ads and trackers by default.
19 votes -
Microsoft retools Edge, but Internet Explorer is forever
6 votes -
Private by design: How we built Firefox Sync
39 votes -
Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome (Remote Code Execution?)
5 votes -
Tunneling into a private network through JavaScript
7 votes -
SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web
8 votes -
Apple's latest anti-tracking feature in Safari takes toll on digital advertising
28 votes -
Google Chrome’s users take a back seat to its bottom line
16 votes