I am in awe of the customization abilities of Vivaldi!

Yet I feel like a spoiled brat. I want more now!
There are features I wish they could implement that other browsers have.
Yet the feature request section is a mess.

#TIL about #Servo;

"... is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications."

https://servo.org/

Also #Verso, an experimental browser built on Servo;

https://wusyong.github.io/posts/verso-0-1/

As of today, my computer can __nicely__ read aloud for me !

I'm lazy, i read slowly, so i don't like reading, i skip a lot of articles

I have been looking for a solution for several months

Still early stage (the first beta might be available in a year or so), but still... #ladybird is hopefully getting there (compiled from the source this morning).

https://ladybird.org/

Hahahaha... Microsoft up to their old advertising tricks again...

https://www.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/1kfgvfw/posted_by_offical_m_edge_account/

For us "teh olds", we remember OMGIGP...

https://youtu.be/xB9fhjnJcB0

Article about the "removal/banning":

https://www.pcworld.com/article/523999/article-5818.html

»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.

https://www.golem.de/news/mozilla-firefox-existenz-durch-ende-des-google-suchdeals-gefaehrdet-2505-195894.html

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 https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/tabunloader/

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

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.

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.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_hole_6_flyby/
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.

#frage Wenn ich mehere Tabs offen hab, würde ich gerne die Webadressen irgendwo aufschreiben, so das ich sie in einer Datei hab, weiss einer eine Möglichkeit dazu ?

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!

New software review on my website!

Zen Browser
★★★★☆

Similar to Arc, Zen has a non-cluttered design that stays out of your way. Unlike Arc, it's built on Firefox, runs on more platforms, and doesn't require you to log in just to use it!

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/zen-browser/
#ZenBrowser #software #firefox #mozilla #WebBrowser #privacy #floss

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 https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/114308920344750587

Vivaldi fanart #Vivaldi #WebBrowser #VivaldiBrowser #FanArt #ALT4me

Anyone using the Zen browser?

https://zen-browser.app/

"It is now time to fix it for good. A new solution has been proposed: partitioning visited link history. This approach fundamentally changes how browsers store and expose visited link data. Instead of maintaining a global list, web browsers will store visited links with a triple-key partition:

- Link URL. The destination of the visited link.
- Top-Level Site. The domain of the main browsing context.
- Frame Origin. The origin of the frame rendering the link.

A link is only styled as :visited if it was visited from the same top-level site and frame origin (...) This approach guarantees isolation and works well with the web's same-origin policy. The system records only navigations initiated by link clicks or scripts—excluding direct address bar entries or bookmark navigations.

Key benefits of this model include: strong protection against cross-site history leaks, solving for good of many known side-channel attacks, support for meaningful styling within trusted, same-context domains, conforming to established web privacy principles and data protection regulations.

This feature is already implemented in Chrome (v132, behind a #partition-visited-link-database-with-self-links flag). I am confident that in 2025 we are going to have this privacy headache solved once and for all."

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/fixing-web-browser-history-leaks/

New software review on my website!

iCab
★★★☆☆

This macOS-only WebKit browser is just OK, but with so many other browsers trying to grab your attention and data, sometimes 'just OK' is what you want.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/icab/
#software #webBrowser #webkitBased #macos #degoogling #retroComputing #review