Firefox

I’ve been using Librewolf for over a month, and I’m going to keep using it

It’s getting increasingly hard to have privacy online

I’ve been experiencing reduced performance with Firefox for a few releases now. This decrease in performance happens even with a clean profile. So, I began testing other browsers. Two of them are Chromium and Brave. They are nice and whatnot, but they have two issues in common: they threaten browser engine diversity (remember the Internet Explorer dominance days and how that negatively impacted the web?) and the Chrome Store hellscape. There are a lot - and I mean a lot - of proprietary extensions on the Chrome Store. Even worse, some tend to be a privacy nightmare. I stumbled upon a screenshot extension, Lightshot, that logs everything it can, even if not related to its functionalities. Just look at the privacy policy: ...

To access all the Firefox’s about: pages, just type about:about in the address bar.

These are a few notes about Opera and Vivaldi web browser’s when compared to Firefox, after using both for a week. The good sleek interface (both but I became more fond of Opera in this regard) functionality (both) some sort of adblocker included (both) integrated VPN in Opera (although I have mixed feelings about this, since it’s proprietary as far as I can tell) The bad resource usage bigger than Firefox in my system (both) slower than Firefox, using default configs (both) proprietary (both) The following specs were used when testing both browsers: ...

I’ve been a Firefox user since version 1.0, and the Mozilla Suite before that. Shamefully, I also used the infamous Internet Explorer long before that crap evolved to something close to a browser but not quite and still shitty. During all my years with this browser, I’ve come to use a handful of extensions that I consider essential. The list has changed over the years and has taken many forms. The current one is as follow: ...

I got the new, event and flex-based, Twitter design a few days ago and decided to try out the night mode. This was also influenced by some tweet a contact of mine published. While not bad, I don’t like what I think is an exaggerated use of blue hues and shades. I find it even worse at night, due to the blue light stuff impacting our sleep. Even with a blue light filter, like the one from Plasma, it’s still too much blue. ...

Google Chrome is such a privacy hell that it has become it’s own hell in the japanese folklore. You’re better off with Firefox and you get better performance. But if you really want Chrome, Ungoogled Chromium is based on the previous (technically, it’s based on Chromium) with some bits removed for added privacy.

Que raio se passará com o site do Facebook? Cada vez demora mais a carregar, faz a temperatura do processador do meu portátil disparar e está cheio de coisas a tentar roubar constantemente um bocadinho da minha atenção. Na volta é por estar cheio de porcarias como esta. Facebook answered 2,000 questions posed by the Senate Committee. Among these, Facebook explained that it collects information about users’ computers, phones, or other connected devices, including their mouse, reports India Today. The main purpose is to personalize content, but mouse movements are also tracked to help the company analyze whether a user is a bot or not. A person’s mouse movements also reveal whether Facebook is open on the foreground or background of their computer—so Facebook knows if you’re actually browsing the site, or merely have it open in one of a dozen different browser tabs. ...

O Firefox começou a permitir o bloqueio de áudio com reprodução automática nas nightly builds. Isto inclui, por exemplo, os vídeos que a CNET mete no site e que são irritantes como o caraças. O anúncio foi feito por Dale Harvey, um dos programadores do Firefox, no Twitter. https://twitter.com/daleharvey/status/1020619223863873539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1020619223863873539&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2018%2F07%2F24%2Ffirefox-nightly-blocks-autoplaying-audio%2F A funcionalidade tem três modos: desligada, pedir sempre permissão para reproduzir e bloquear sempre. Vai ser também possível definir uma lista de endereços com permissão para reprodução automática de conteúdos com som. ...