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If anyone from Valve is reading this, my biggest wishlist from Steam OS is a proper general purpose browsing tab. Please make it happen .. I currently use that

If anyone from Valve is reading this, my biggest wishlist from Steam OS is a proper general purpose browsing tab. Please make it happen .. I currently use that web browser from Decky loader, but that keeps breaking so often. Plus it would be nice to have something that i can login my YouTube, Netflix etc.. accounts ..

naoru 9mo ago
What's wrong with Desktop mode?
- wolrah 9mo ago
  Having to switch to desktop mode and back. It's not exactly rocket science to add a "browser app" to the Steam system to use certain web sites in an appliance-ish mode, but it's not great for general purpose browsing. A slightly more advanced browser frontend that offered an experience comparable to Edge on Xbox would be very nice.
  - whs 9mo ago
    Decky warns that the Steam's built in browser is outdated and may have security vulnerability. I suppose properly maintaining a browser is a burden.
johnbellone 9mo ago
Did you try loading the browser as a non-game application? To be honest, I primarily do my browsing offline, and I installed https://localsend.org https://localsend.org using Flatpak to move files to/from the Steam Deck. It works amazingly well.
LeoPanthera 9mo ago
You can install Microsoft Edge from Flathub. (And I think maybe Chrome too?) Edge has the advantage that XBox Cloud Gaming works on it.
- sph 9mo ago
  Why Edge? You can get Firefox from Flathub, and it's a better browser.
  - hbn 9mo ago
    “Better” is debatable. With Google doing everything in its power to end ad blocking, I’ve made a real attempt to switch to Firefox and Firefox-based browsers. I unpinned Chrome from my taskbar and only popped into it when I needed to. Over the span of a couple months, eventually the Chrome window never got closed… Eventually it was pinned to my taskbar again… And at some point it was my default browser again and all I was using. I don’t like how Firefox handles tab groups, I don’t want to rely on extensions to fix that, I don’t like their dev tools, I don’t like how their private window shortcut is different from what every other browser uses with no way to change it, I personally think it’s ugly, I could go on. I tried alternatives like Zen but I end up not liking their weird ideas of how a browser should be used, and trusting small FOSS project maintainers to ship a stable, secure browser has not been great in my experience. Chrome is boring and reliable which is really what I want. Edge is a slightly worse version of it due to Microsoft incompetence/lack of taste but I’d still rather use that than Firefox.
  - LeoPanthera 9mo ago
    The Steam Deck is a gaming device.
- dismalaf 9mo ago
  Flathub has all the major browsers. Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, Floorp, etc... and Edge.
sogen 9mo ago
Install in Desktop mode, then add as a “non steam game” https://beebom.com/how-install-google-chrome-steam-deck/ https://beebom.com/how-install-google-chrome-steam-deck/
- ece 9mo ago
  This works for any cloud gaming services too. Another hack is putting a link in your profile comments.

naoru 9mo ago

What's wrong with Desktop mode?

wolrah 9mo ago
Having to switch to desktop mode and back. It's not exactly rocket science to add a "browser app" to the Steam system to use certain web sites in an appliance-ish mode, but it's not great for general purpose browsing. A slightly more advanced browser frontend that offered an experience comparable to Edge on Xbox would be very nice.
- whs 9mo ago
  Decky warns that the Steam's built in browser is outdated and may have security vulnerability. I suppose properly maintaining a browser is a burden.

johnbellone 9mo ago

Did you try loading the browser as a non-game application? To be honest, I primarily do my browsing offline, and I installed https://localsend.org https://localsend.org using Flatpak to move files to/from the Steam Deck. It works amazingly well.

LeoPanthera 9mo ago

You can install Microsoft Edge from Flathub. (And I think maybe Chrome too?) Edge has the advantage that XBox Cloud Gaming works on it.

sph 9mo ago
Why Edge? You can get Firefox from Flathub, and it's a better browser.
- hbn 9mo ago
  “Better” is debatable. With Google doing everything in its power to end ad blocking, I’ve made a real attempt to switch to Firefox and Firefox-based browsers. I unpinned Chrome from my taskbar and only popped into it when I needed to. Over the span of a couple months, eventually the Chrome window never got closed… Eventually it was pinned to my taskbar again… And at some point it was my default browser again and all I was using. I don’t like how Firefox handles tab groups, I don’t want to rely on extensions to fix that, I don’t like their dev tools, I don’t like how their private window shortcut is different from what every other browser uses with no way to change it, I personally think it’s ugly, I could go on. I tried alternatives like Zen but I end up not liking their weird ideas of how a browser should be used, and trusting small FOSS project maintainers to ship a stable, secure browser has not been great in my experience. Chrome is boring and reliable which is really what I want. Edge is a slightly worse version of it due to Microsoft incompetence/lack of taste but I’d still rather use that than Firefox.
- LeoPanthera 9mo ago
  The Steam Deck is a gaming device.
dismalaf 9mo ago
Flathub has all the major browsers. Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, Floorp, etc... and Edge.

sogen 9mo ago

Install in Desktop mode, then add as a “non steam game” https://beebom.com/how-install-google-chrome-steam-deck/ https://beebom.com/how-install-google-chrome-steam-deck/

ece 9mo ago
This works for any cloud gaming services too. Another hack is putting a link in your profile comments.