3 ms·

I am a big fan of LibreWolf. Along with Ungoogled Chromium, these browsers feel a lot closer to what browsers should feel like. One of my favorite features of

by jchw 4y ago

I am a big fan of LibreWolf. Along with Ungoogled Chromium, these browsers feel a lot closer to what browsers should feel like. One of my favorite features of LibreWolf is truly disabled autoplay. If a site wants to autoplay, you have to allow it first, no exceptions. This might sound petty, but in a world where it feels like you have no control over anything, this small return to feeling like I am allowed to decide what happens in my own damn browser is liberating. Note that Librewolf doesn’t autoupdate, but you can get notifications when an update is available using an unofficial extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librewolf-updater/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librewolf-upd... You can use a package manager to install and update it, too. Even on Windows; it’s available in Winget.

freedomben 4y ago
User control is remarkably empowering and makes the web more of a joy like it felt in the early days. The day that I can't run uMatrix anymore will be a sad day for me indeed.
- MomoXenosaga 4y ago
  I tried to use this and it breaks most websites. Usability is clearly the least important concern for the devs. Mozilla can't make that decision it has to work out of the box. Of course the most private thing to do is not use computers at all.
lbhdc 4y ago
I use the fully leaded version of firefox, which has the disable autoplay feature. That is one of the best quality of life features there IMO. So often I will click on an article or something like that, and it steps on my music and drives me crazy. Gonna have to try out librewolf.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  > disable autoplay feature. Sort of. They require you to dig around in about:config (where settings go to be hidden, then removed) to toggle some obliquely named and unnecessary exception to their autoplay policy, which is if your "gestures" trigger autoplay. This can mean simply mean that you scrolled the page to video was on. The setting to disable autoplay is therefore only reliable on unselected tabs.
  - lbhdc 4y ago
    I have no problem with the gigantic about:config section. I get that browser vendors want to have easy to navigate settings pages so its easy for the average person to stay on the "golden path" as it were. As someone who wants to fiddle with the knobs I am totally fine with the current approach. Its been my experience firefox does not aggressively prune these flags. My experience with chrome has been different though.

by jchw 4y ago

freedomben 4y ago

User control is remarkably empowering and makes the web more of a joy like it felt in the early days. The day that I can't run uMatrix anymore will be a sad day for me indeed.

MomoXenosaga 4y ago
I tried to use this and it breaks most websites. Usability is clearly the least important concern for the devs. Mozilla can't make that decision it has to work out of the box. Of course the most private thing to do is not use computers at all.

lbhdc 4y ago

I use the fully leaded version of firefox, which has the disable autoplay feature. That is one of the best quality of life features there IMO. So often I will click on an article or something like that, and it steps on my music and drives me crazy. Gonna have to try out librewolf.

pessimizer 4y ago
> disable autoplay feature. Sort of. They require you to dig around in about:config (where settings go to be hidden, then removed) to toggle some obliquely named and unnecessary exception to their autoplay policy, which is if your "gestures" trigger autoplay. This can mean simply mean that you scrolled the page to video was on. The setting to disable autoplay is therefore only reliable on unselected tabs.
- lbhdc 4y ago
  I have no problem with the gigantic about:config section. I get that browser vendors want to have easy to navigate settings pages so its easy for the average person to stay on the "golden path" as it were. As someone who wants to fiddle with the knobs I am totally fine with the current approach. Its been my experience firefox does not aggressively prune these flags. My experience with chrome has been different though.