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I use FF as a primary browser on Desktop and Nightly in Android. There's much I could say about FF, but I think it would be futile. In Debian, I'd use FF-LTS a

by eth0up 1y ago

I use FF as a primary browser on Desktop and Nightly in Android. There's much I could say about FF, but I think it would be futile. In Debian, I'd use FF-LTS and regular FF. Since moving to Void, xbps allows only one version, so I use FF and Vivaldi. I'd appreciate any opinions on Vivaldi. It's the only functional alternative browser I've found in the repos. But I have to start it with: LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 Which sucks, and applies to OpenShot and a lot of other software that gets fussy with intel chips in some versions of Linux. Chromium I prefer to avoid, and it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with. But that's all aside the point. Opinions, please...

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
Can you run a different Firefox via flatpak? (Or x11docker or plain docker, or nix, or I guess Snap)
- eth0up 1y ago
  Yes. Thanks for the reminder.
dspillett 1y ago
> Chromium … it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with. That sounds like the the keyring issue that pops up if you have your user account auto-login on machine start. If you don't let Chromium store passwords⁰¹ this can be safely disabled: see https://archive.is/G6pPH#ID15 https://archive.is/G6pPH#ID15 ² I ran into the issue when setting up a simple temporary public kiosk a short while back. -------- [0] I don't, I prefer to keep my internet facing UAs and my credential stores a bit more separated than that. It also removes some friction from moving between browsers, when one annoys me enough to (re)try another. [1] If you do let Chromium store passwords, then you can still do this, but not safely as per the warnings in that article. [2] Or https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15 https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15 for the original, if you enjoy consent dialogues or want to be commercially internet stalked

by eth0up 1y ago

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago

Can you run a different Firefox via flatpak? (Or x11docker or plain docker, or nix, or I guess Snap)

eth0up 1y ago
Yes. Thanks for the reminder.

dspillett 1y ago

> Chromium … it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with. That sounds like the the keyring issue that pops up if you have your user account auto-login on machine start. If you don't let Chromium store passwords⁰¹ this can be safely disabled: see https://archive.is/G6pPH#ID15 https://archive.is/G6pPH#ID15 ² I ran into the issue when setting up a simple temporary public kiosk a short while back. -------- [0] I don't, I prefer to keep my internet facing UAs and my credential stores a bit more separated than that. It also removes some friction from moving between browsers, when one annoys me enough to (re)try another. [1] If you do let Chromium store passwords, then you can still do this, but not safely as per the warnings in that article. [2] Or https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15 https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15 for the original, if you enjoy consent dialogues or want to be commercially internet stalked