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Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

submitted 8 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

not using Gnome Web smh /s

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

Falkon Ultras!

[–] Wappen@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Never heard of LibreWolf but they say on their website that features like DRM are disabled, what does that mean if I want to view DRM content in my browser? I may be confused but currently with Firefox I already have problems with DRM sometimes. For example on Dell's website I had difficulties viewing product videos on there, will they simply not play on LibreWolf or how does that work?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

Create a second profile that you only use for DRM crap and enable DRM in the settings. Firefox also doesnt have DRM pre-enabled so that claim of them makes no sense.

See my post on konsole on how to make a desktop entry in Linux, where you can put profiles on the right click actions with icons and all.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

Yes, Librewolf is basically a fork of Firefox that makes different trade-offs, where it accepts more breakage than Firefox does, to gain a bit more privacy.

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Mullvad Browser is another good option that is privacy focused. FF based.

Use a few to isolate different activities.

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[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Can Firefox install websites as web apps?

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Well, there's PWAsForFirefox

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No and thats not nice. Webapps work really well, I use hardened Chromium for Element until Firefox gets their shit together.

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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

I like my Firefox more: https://i.imgur.com/AWO9ss1.png .... got rid of the title bar

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[–] Daz@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.

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[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago

That tweet is so weak, how are hundreds of people here upvoting and commenting on this?

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