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Haystack posted:Firefox is also by far the best mobile browser since you can put an ad-blocker on it. The Android version is slow and janky and Opera is way better (especially the tab Ui). Danger - Octopus! posted:Weirdly, I prefer Bing maps to Google maps in a browser, because google maps just has so much bloat now that it takes ages to zoom in and out or change locations. The sponsored locations on Google maps seem to be gradually getting more and more obtrusive.
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I'm actually using Apple maps more on my phone. It's not as good as vintage Google maps, but its less annoying than current Google maps. Also, for me, it actually works better/fucks up less at this point.
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Dec 22, 2022 16:31
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I stopped using firefox years ago when the browser was forever reason just eating up memory on my computer. But if chrome is looking to eliminate ad blockers, maybe I need to look into it again. I literally can't go back because website ad design is loving awful still.
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Dec 22, 2022 16:44
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Mega Comrade posted:It is the Microsoft way. Still convinced they will gently caress up GitHub at some point. GitHub has been doing really well under Microsoft. Their GitHub actions seem to have gotten much more useful since the purchase. We used to use Travis, which essentially specialized in just actions, and they've fallen apart
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Dec 22, 2022 19:11
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The most annoying thing about Firefox is when it decides to update itself when starting the application, which seems to only happen every single time I don't want it to happen. Like yes I know browser updates are generally good because of security updates and whatnot, and yes I know that if given the choice most people simply wont update because of *reasons* ranging from laziness to waiting for a more stable update (but mostly out of laziness?), and yes I understand self-updating browsers are probably a good thing in this case. But for fucks sake, I opened Firefox right now because I need/want to use it right now, not a few seconds later after your poo poo is done downloading/updating/restarting.
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Anyone tried out the Brave Browser? I'm not a tech guy, but I've been using Brave for a few months and it's been a very solid experience (despite some Crypto compatibility features, which you can thankfully disable and ignore). There's built-in ad and cookie blocking, plus it's compatible with all Chrome apps. I'm running it with AdBlock, Consent-O-Matic (automatically rejects and skips those "please accept our cookies" forms), and Shut Up (block comments on every website automatically) and that's enough to avoid pretty much any bullshit a website can throw at you. I especially find Shut Up (the comment blocking extension) to be a godsend, and I urge you to give it a try. You don't realize how distracting, incoherent, and meaningless 99% of comments are until you exclude them from the web-browsing experience. Even if you actively avoid reading comments, never having to scroll past them or read around them is a huge reduction in clutter.
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OOSU is nice for windows but Brave is basically ad-laden and is Yet Another Chromium Browser. Vivaldi was interesting to me for the same reason but every browser is pretty lazy on built in AdBlock.
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Dec 22, 2022 19:51
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Indie Rocktopus posted:Anyone tried out the Brave Browser? The people who make Brave are involved in crypto. I can't remember the details; maybe someone else can help out here.
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Dec 22, 2022 20:20
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Szmitten posted:I downloaded Firefox onto a new laptop via Edge and the way it popped up a begging "You don't have to get another browser" message had absolutely no dignity.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The people who make Brave are involved in crypto. I can't remember the details; maybe someone else can help out here. Yeah they made some bullshit coin of their own to "pay" you for browsing. They also replaced ads with their own ads and claimed it was a mistake (happened more than once though). Oh and bonus points it's a project by Brendan Eich, the guy ousted from Mozilla for supporting bans on same sex marriages.
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Dec 22, 2022 20:29
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Indie Rocktopus posted:Anyone tried out the Brave Browser? Brave is just another Chromium fork, except it's run by Brendan Eich, the guy who got kicked out of Mozilla's CEO seat for being too much of a chud. At the time, he opposed gay marriage so much that he actually donated to the Prop 8 campaign to ban gay marriage in California. Not only that, but until COVID hit, he still occasionally slapfought with people on Twitter in defense of that position: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1116414366809608192 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1143622796737540096 Since 2020, he's instead become obsessed with COVID conspiracy theories, opposing mask mandates and vaccination mandates, suggesting that the whole thing was a government scheme to destroy states' rights, and so on. He's just as online as Musk is, and about the same ideologically (including being a big fan of Musk's Twitter buyout and TWITTER FILES garbage). He's also big into crypto and constantly trying to squeeze his own crypto schemes into Brave. The other big thing he tweets about these days, aside from opposing COVID vaccines, is insisting that SBF's frauds were actually a government op or something.
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... and if this isn't enough, Eich is the creator of JavaScript.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yes. I just reinstalled Windows on a computer, and it nagged me about not using Chrome twice, once when I downloaded it and once when I installed it. Honey, it's not you, it's -- wait, it is you. Remembering my old 8/8.1 install had an EU mandated anti-monopoly app open on setup which asked which browser I wanted to download, and featured a dozen browsers in a randomised order.
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OddObserver posted:... and if this isn't enough, Eich is the creator of JavaScript. Burn the witch.
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Boris Galerkin posted:The most annoying thing about Firefox is when it decides to update itself when starting the application, which seems to only happen every single time I don't want it to happen. Jesus Christ what kind of computer do you have? Mine is like nine years old (i5-4440) and it takes like three seconds to apply the update. But I also allow background downloads and have gigabit fibre so… if you’re on a metered 256 Kbps connection I do get it, and apologies for the snark; otherwise, a bit of patience helps. I don’t know if you’ve experienced waiting 30 seconds for a JPEG or minutes for an MP3, we’re all different in that regard 
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OddObserver posted:... and if this isn't enough, Eich is the creator of JavaScript. Arsenic Lupin posted:Burn the witch.
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Mega Comrade posted:It is the Microsoft way. Still convinced they will gently caress up GitHub at some point. I tell myself that it can't be any better than what any Linux or Mac has had forever and it only seems great because I work from Windows and PuTTY is not a high bar. I irrationally love it to death and I'm sure at some point Microsoft will do something to gently caress it up.
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They're currently working out how to integrate it with Bing Rewards, or will force all URLs to use Edge rather than your default browser
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Cheesus posted:Thanks for reminding me that at some point I should temper my expectations with Terminal. Microsoft has been killing it on the developer side of things for the last 5 years. WSL, VS Code, Terminal, Powershell 7, etc.. someone is sacrificing something to some kind of dark cosmic entity to get those kinds of results.
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They have been spending a lot of money to work their way deeper into the Dev world. I can only assume it's to push Azure. And I say this as someone who professionally works with the Microsoft tech stack. They do a lot of good stuff, C# and vscode are amazong, but they have ended up biting me so often in the end I just always assume it's coming at some point. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 22, 2022 |
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F4rt5 posted:Jesus Christ what kind of computer do you have? Mine is like nine years old (i5-4440) and it takes like three seconds to apply the update. But I also allow background downloads and have gigabit fibre so… if you’re on a metered 256 Kbps connection I do get it, and apologies for the snark; otherwise, a bit of patience helps. I don’t know if you’ve experienced waiting 30 seconds for a JPEG or minutes for an MP3, we’re all different in that regard I don't care if it takes 1 second or 3 seconds or less/more than that. My issue is when I double click the Firefox icon I expect the Firefox application to open up instantly and let me use it also instantly, not being told I can't use it because it needs to update first. I don't think it's even an update now yes/no dialogue box, it just does it. It's not often it does this but when it does I remember it because it's annoying as all gently caress. Like figure out a way to do it "in the background" ffs not when I open the app.
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I never see an update prompt and I probably only open Firefox once every 2-3 weeks, so I don't know if you've disabled an update service that would otherwise handle this. E: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-background-updates-firefox-windows
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Boris Galerkin posted:I don't care if it takes 1 second or 3 seconds or less/more than that. My issue is when I double click the Firefox icon I expect the Firefox application to open up instantly and let me use it also instantly, not being told I can't use it because it needs to update first. I don't think it's even an update now yes/no dialogue box, it just does it. It's not often it does this but when it does I remember it because it's annoying as all gently caress. Sounds like you need a solid state drive and/or your machine is hopelessly out of date. My main shiposting station is a Panasonic CF-53 laptop from 2015 with a cheap SSD I installed half a decade ago. I do not have these issues.
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So you guys have never tried to open Firefox only to see some kind of progress bar and then Firefox restarting with a bullshit marketing page that tells you about the new features?
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Boris Galerkin posted:So you guys have never tried to open Firefox only to see some kind of progress bar and then Firefox restarting with a bullshit marketing page that tells you about the new features? I have absolutely opened firefox to find it spending under 5 seconds extra to open and then displaying an update tab. Yes. Progress bar? Absolutely not.
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Motronic posted:I have absolutely opened firefox to find it spending under 5 seconds extra to open and then displaying an update tab Ok good enough. That's the poo poo that I want to nuke from existence. I don't care that I updated to Firefox 3483 or whatever. Just let me browse and stop bothering me. e: My OP was that whatever is happening there with that update loop where it notifies/bothers me is the most annoying part of Firefox. My main shitposting box is a Mac and I don't remember Safari ever bothering me to check out their new features outside of updating macOS as a whole. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Less Fat Luke posted:Yeah they made some bullshit coin of their own to "pay" you for browsing. They also replaced ads with their own ads and claimed it was a mistake (happened more than once though). They also hijacked their own affiliate links into urls
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Thanks Ants posted:They're currently working out how to integrate it with Bing Rewards, or will force all URLs to use Edge rather than your default browser Didn't they try this with 11, where they made it basically impossible to fully switch all URLs from Edge to your chosen default by loving with how the handlers registered with the OS? Szmitten posted:Remembering my old 8/8.1 install had an EU mandated anti-monopoly app open on setup which asked which browser I wanted to download, and featured a dozen browsers in a randomised order. As a USian, I heard about but never experienced the Browser Ballot but it sounded like the dumbest possible solution to a not-really-a-problem.
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Neito posted:As a USian, I heard about but never experienced the Browser Ballot but it sounded like the dumbest possible solution to a not-really-a-problem. It was admittedly kinda neat to not have to open IE to download Firefox and instead just have it there and skip that part of the process.
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Szmitten posted:It was admittedly kinda neat to not have to open IE to download Firefox and instead just have it there and skip that part of the process. IIRC OEMs didn't have to present the ballot screen (or could hit it as part of testing or something? IDK) so it was only showing to like a vanishingly small segment of people.
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Looks like someone made a nice twitter -> mastodon bridge for all accounts. https://instinctd.com/ kinda nice to make Mastodon a home, it seems.
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Cheesus posted:Thanks for reminding me that at some point I should temper my expectations with Terminal. WIn10 has actual ssh/ssh-keygen installed by default. by which I mean to say, gently caress PuTTY.
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OddObserver posted:... and if this isn't enough, Eich is the creator of JavaScript. 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yes. I just reinstalled Windows on a computer, and it nagged me about not using Chrome twice, once when I downloaded it and once when I installed it. Honey, it's not you, it's -- wait, it is you. I had the same deal just yesterday, and on top of that I had to loving disable a mode that literally disallows installing any non-Microsoft software. Courts, stop bugging them about buying Activision and get on THAT.
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lastpass lmao https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
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Boris Galerkin posted:lastpass lmao It's called Lastpass because whenever you read something about them it's the last time you'll use them
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Years ago people said they should encrypt all data, not just passwords. "Nah be fine"
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fwiw, lastpass feels like amateur hour compared to 1password. i use the former at work and absolutely hate it. it didn’t require much to set up or create a secret key and require it on new instances, whereas 1password did. moreover, 1password’s usability is far more fluid than lastpass’s. not sure this speaks to 1password being more secure or in a better position to prevent whatever happened to lastpass, but it certainly feels more secure and assuring.
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