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LtningTrying to optimise <a href="http://floppy.museum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://floppy.museum</a> for (even) older browsers. Some of the issues I'm trying to solve include utf8-to-latin1 translation (the original HTML has some silly double- and triple-byte characters), and variations of JPEG that simply aren't understood.<br><br>Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing 😉<br><br><a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browsers</a> <a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#floppy</a> <a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museum</a> <a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#html</a> <a href="https://weirdr.net/snac?t=browserwars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrowserWars</a><br>
iotar<p>Installed a Mastodon client, Elk, on my main Win10 (Yes, I know!) machine, so that it runs quietly in a corner of the second monitor. Got me thinking about how many other things I could get running outside the browser. Stuff like email wasn't always browser-based, and as with so much in tech, we have moved towards generalised solutions rather than single programs that do one thing really well.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a></p>
adrinux<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brucelawson</span></a></span> Sigh. This is going to make firing up a Windows VM for browser testing even more tedious.</p><p>It's bad enough that it's essentially impossible to test Safari in a VM in Linux without giving macOS a separate graphics card and monitor.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Safari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Safari</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Veroniiiica: Customize Microsoft Edge Accessibility For Low Vision. “During a video call with a teacher of the visually impaired (TVI) a few days ago, I copied a link from the Microsoft Edge web browser and pasted it into the chat box. The TVI asked me how I did that, and at first I thought they were asking me how I used copy and paste. In reality, they were super excited about the fact […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/veroniiiica-customize-microsoft-edge-accessibility-for-low-vision/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/veroniiiica-customize-microsoft-edge-accessibility-for-low-vision/</a></p>
Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://blob.cat/users/emu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emu</span></a></span> : given a domain name (*) for a website with an APPARENT owner, DV certs do not provide ANY security because users have no reasonable way to determine whether said domain name DOES NOT belong to the apparent owner.</p><p>Phishing is wreaking havoc on the internet. There are lots of people like you who DO NOT provide ANY solutions.</p><p>(*) In some message (email, SMS, chatapp, DM, ...), found by Googling, out of a QR-code, in a paper letter or on social media.</p><p>A DV cert may be fine for your home NAS, but not for your bank. Unfortunately big tech does not want users to see the difference between a fake and a real bank (or any other critical website) in their browsers.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/phishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phishing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DV</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a></p>
Linux in a Bit<p>If you're worried about fingerprinting above all else, vanilla Firefox is probably better than something like Arkenfox.<br>I'm dead serious. :blobcateyes: </p><p>Fingerprinting is one of the most counter-intuitive things in digital privacy.<br>In most cases the more you try to prevent it by yourself, the worse it gets. :blobcatthink: </p><p>TL;DR the best thing you can do is to use your browser like a normal person. :blobwizard: </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fingerprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fingerprinting</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a></p>
quangobaud<p>a HTML editor, you can find them online </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a></p>
Frontend Dogma<p>What’s New in WebGPU (Chrome&nbsp;135), by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chromium.social/@developers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>developers</span></a></span>:</p><p><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-webgpu-135" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.chrome.com/blog/new-</span><span class="invisible">in-webgpu-135</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/releasenotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>releasenotes</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/webgpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webgpu</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a></p>
royal<p>Web portals! Circa 2000, you found them everywhere. I'm looking for a modern one.<br>Or maybe you'd call it a dashboard. I want a visual, drag-and-drop bookmark manager. You know, the sort of thing that lets me cluster my blog links in one section, news sites in another, etc. Maybe with color-coding. Maybe with images or page previews. FOSS preferred but I'd consider anything.<br><a href="https://theres.life/tags/webportals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webportals</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/webdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/vivalidi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivalidi</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/webbrowsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webbrowsers</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/webdashboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdashboards</span></a></p>
xyhhx 🔻 (plz hire me)<p>browsers should implement a standard webauthn element / input type so that js-free websites could use webauthn too...</p><p><a href="https://nso.group/tags/webauthn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webauthn</span></a> <a href="https://nso.group/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://nso.group/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://nso.group/tags/fido2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fido2</span></a> <a href="https://nso.group/tags/ctap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ctap</span></a></p>
Light🐧⁂<p>Not long after I can't find any reason to keep Zen Browser around I removed it. I still have one would say a web browser collection and rather have vastly different ones for different use cases. I already had Librewolf and Floorp that I continue to use, Chromium for the odd websites that aren't work that well in Firefex based browsers and lastly qutebrowser that use mainly for opening up links that I see in posts.<br>I think for now I can stop experimenting with browsers, except if I find one that I haven't tried yet that's preferably not a chromium based one. I tried out any of them that interested me, some of them are around for a long time that I wanted to check out, the others are the ones that I never tried. In the first category that I check out sometimes is Vivaldi. Those that fall into the later category Zen Browser, Floorp and Mullvad Browser.<br>While Mullvad Browser would be a good choice only if I use any VPN, which I don't and don't see a reason to use it without one.<br>And yes I have admit Zen and Floorp are both have some little bugs that I had encountered while using them, all of those where UI related. But until I found these bugs really annoying in Floorp I will continue to keep it around and use it.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/zenbrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zenbrowser</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/floorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floorp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mullvadbrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mullvadbrowser</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chromium</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/qutebrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qutebrowser</span></a></p>
jbz<p>🇮🇳 India launches competition to build a homegrown web browser<br>—<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geeknews.chat/@theregister" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theregister</span></a></span></p><p>｢ An indigenous browser could be more troublesome for market leaders Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla. India's colossal population, and its ardor for local products, could propel a local browser to a user base in the hundreds of millions – perhaps even a billion ｣</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/indian_web_browser_development_challenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/08/10/ind</span><span class="invisible">ian_web_browser_development_challenge</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/india" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>india</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: The customizable Vivaldi browser adds built-in ProtonVPN . “The highly customizable Vivaldi web browser now has built-in ProtonVPN integration. CEO Jon von Tetzchner described the collaboration as part of a broader shift toward ‘privacy over profiling, sovereignty over surveillance, independence over inertia,’ noting Vivaldi and Proton’s headquarters are in Europe (a region with […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/engadget-the-customizable-vivaldi-browser-adds-built-in-protonvpn/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/engadget-the-customizable-vivaldi-browser-adds-built-in-protonvpn/</a></p>
John Branigan<p>Anybody know of a browser where i can auto replace words before a page renders. I want to replace the name 'Donald Trump' with 'Richard Stilgoe' when reading the news. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>help</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/orangeturd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orangeturd</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>A smarter VPN experience: Introducing the Mozilla VPN extension for Windows.</p><p><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/mozilla-vpn-for-firefox/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f</span><span class="invisible">irefox/extensions-addons/mozilla-vpn-for-firefox/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vpn</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a></p>
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)<p><strong>Browser-Native Translation and Language Detection APIs Coming Soon</strong></p> <p><a href="https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/translation-api" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/t</span><span class="invisible">ranslation-api</span></a></p>
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Erik van Straten

@rohare : thank you! Of course the feature list could be expanded, but many things can also be implemented using browser extensions / plug-ins.

IMO implementing my proposal using extrensions will not work, because we need a revolution, all combined:

1) Trustworthy certificates containing *human readable* (+) information identifying the responsible entity for "risky" websites (DV is fine for your home-NAS because you *know* when a given domain name is *not* yours);

2) Browsers showing that information upon first visit (using that browser, optionally synced cross devices) or when anything changes (website owner in particular);

3) User education. Browsers should contain or point to easy to understand tutorials.

Again, full details in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat.

(+) The cert that Chrome on Android shows for stripe.com is NOT human readable, and incomplete as well (see crt.sh/?id=17223459392).

NOTE: Apart from the domain name "stripe.com", the only additional identifying information in the cert below is the name of the organization: "Stripe, inc". The information that is *NOT* shown is *EXACTLY* the reason why Google killed EV (and OV) certificates, assisted by (notably) Troy Hunt: troyhunt.com/extended-validati.

@haveibeenpwned

Screenshot of the certificate viewer in Chrome on Android, showing the certificate of https://stripe.com Apart from the domain name "stripe.com" the only additional identifying information is the name of the organization: "Stripe, inc".
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