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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕

»Mozilla – Firefox-Existenz durch Ende des Google-Suchdeals gefährdet:
Der Firefox-Browser könnte sterben, wenn das US-Justizministerium Google verpflichtet, für die Platzierung als Suchmaschine kein Geld mehr zu zahlen.«

Firefox Datenschutz freundlicher einzurichten ist rel simpel aber auch umfangreich und @librewolf & Co sind wiederum deren abhängige sichere Klons, die guter weiße nicht auf Google Chrome basieren.

🦊 golem.de/news/mozilla-firefox-

Golem.de · Mozilla: Firefox-Existenz durch Ende des Google-Suchdeals gefährdet - Golem.deBy Andreas Donath
#webbrowser#firefox#chrome
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DWD

:firefox: A few of us (@foobarry , @bigcalm ) have been tinkering with Firefox tab unloading.

Noteworthy settings:

⚙️ browser.tabs.fadeOutUnloadedTabs will fade the tabs icons
⚙️ browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload sets the minimum time the tab will live before the unloader does it's thing. general consensus is that this is the number of milliseconds, with the default being 10 minutes (mine is much less than that now)
⚙️ browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory will account for low ram
⚙️ browser.tabs.unloadTabInContextMenu enables manual unloading of tabs via a context menu action

📄 There's a page called about:unloads with useful metrics, which references this page of information firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or

🛠️ Pinned tabs are deprioritized in the eyes of the unloader. Which is a setting I'd like to change.

Pictures attached for reference

I wish this sort of thing was more well-known.

#Firefox
#WebBrowser
#UnloadTabs
#AboutUnloads
#AboutConfig
#DWDsTips

Firefox About:Config menu, filtered using "unloaded" keyword
Firefox tab context menu, highlighting the Unload Tab option
Firefox sidebar with tab icons faded to indicate their unloaded status
Firefox about:unloads page
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Interesting Links

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
"Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads." Yikes...I'm not sure I'd want to install this even to *test* it.
Maybe in a VM, but there's no way I'd run this as a daily driver for a few weeks like I've been doing with other browsers.

TechCrunch · Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunchPerplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
#Perplexity#advertising#SurveillanceCapitalism
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Stuff a #Pihole in your #router because your #browser is about to betray you
You could be forgiven for feeling #webbrowser suppliers are actively working to make us trust them less.
#Mozilla bought an #ad company; this month, removed its promise not to sell your info.
theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_
Mozilla sells #ads, #Google limits blocking-time for stricter measures
Pi-hole takes over as your network name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a #DNS sinkhole.

The Register · Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray youBy Liam Proven
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

POV after you tell your normie die-hard Chrome user friend about privacy respecting browsers:

BUT BRAVE IS A CRYPTO SCAM! IT'S TOO BLOATED! AD BLOCKING IS ILLEGAL, IT HURTS CONTENT CREATORS! WHAT THE HECK IS LIBREWOLF? IT MUST BE A VIRUS, BECAUSE I NEVER HEARD OF IT! LIBRE IS A SCARY ILLEGAL WORD! FIREFOX IS DEAD, IT'S SLOW, LOOKS UGLY, NO ONE USES THAT OLDSCHOOL BROWSER ANYMORE. GNOME WEB? I DON'T LIKE GNOMES BECAUSE THEY FART A LOT! UNGOOGLED CHROME? THAT'S AN ANTICHROME! THAT'S EVIL! WHAT'S CHROMIUM? IS IT CHROME PREMIUM? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST??? I WANNA BUY IT TO SUPPORT THE ALL MIGHTY CHROMEBALL, BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY TRUE WEB BROWSER, THE OTHERS ARE ALL SCAM VIRUSES!

#Browser#WebBrowser#Normie
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ArchiveOS

Columbus – a free, versatile, and reliable web browser. The application offers the ability to quickly launch websites, and is also characterized by rich functionality, security while browsing pages, and customization. archiveapp.org/columbus/ #webbrowser #windows

ArchiveApp · ColumbusWeb site: columbus-browser.com (not active) Category: Network Subcategory: Web browsers Platform: Windows License: Freeware Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: unknown Columbus – a free…
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Dave Muth

Thank you so much, Jon, @jon ! I appreciate the whole suite of services.

This msg is sent from my non-Vivaldi, mas.to Mastodon account. I use, and like all the client software built into Vivaldi, though. Especially the free VPN !

Thanks again, for all you do.

#Client #VPN #Vivaldi #WebBrowser #MastodonClient social.vivaldi.net/@jon/114308

Vivaldi SocialJon S. von Tetzchner (@jon@vivaldi.net)Unlike most others, we have made certain choices at Vivaldi that IMHO are important in this time and age. We believe the choices were important when we made them, but even more so today. Our servers are in Iceland and they are our servers and not some cloud servers. We use them for all Vivaldi services, including things like Sync, Blogs, Forums and Vivaldi Social. Electricity in Iceland is green. Most all of the power in use is hydro, with a little bit of geo thermal. We do make use of CDNs for speed, etc., of course. #Vivaldi #GlobalWarming #EU #Europa #Iceland #Browser #Politics
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