LUG meeting Saturday, May 18, 2024
#11
(05-22-2024, 12:28 PM)steve Wrote: Firefox has some limitations, generally related to playing restricted streaming content (i.e., dishanywhere in my case) or with using passkeys,
Ah, I refuse to use digital restrictions management, but I guess I'm more of an open source and free software enthusiast than most and there are cases where it's needed. As for passkeys, I have two yubikeys and I've never had any issue using them under Firefox or its derivatives under Arch Linux.
(05-22-2024, 12:28 PM)steve Wrote: I have not looked at Arkenfox, so I can't speak to that.
FWIW, Arkenfox is just a way to harden Firefox using a config file, it's not a fork or anything.
(05-22-2024, 12:28 PM)steve Wrote: As to the crypto, I think it is just a way to monetize the platform
I guess that's a fundamental disagreement we have then. I cannot stand browsers monetizing themselves like this. Especially ones that take open source code and add a little UI change and some useless features and then call it their own (Pretty much all Chromium based browsers are guilty of this in my experience). If I had to use Chromium based something I'd be Ungoogled-Chromium or just the upstream project itself (which I have used for WebUSB stuff in the past to great success). Firefox does this too, but it's all super easy to disable in about:preferences and about:config, and Firefox itself is open source so I can look passed most of it.

Christian
dev@thackston.cc
https://meta.sr.ht/~nan60.pgp
Reply
#12
Browser flame war is the exact content I was hoping to see on this forum! Wink

I use Microsoft-Edge-Stable directly from the Linux repositories M$ provides.
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)