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i can use tampermonkey in my phone with firefox nightly app. so,

You can also use Greasemonkey, which is actually open source software under a good license (unlike modern tampermonkey).

But you still made a good choice overall.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 10 2022, 17:51

I used to use Chrome. However, when Chrome stops supporting base64 decoding... I feel hurt. It forces me to use Firefox as the alternative....

A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and reeedom:

[librewolf-community.gitlab.io] [librewolf-community.gitlab.io] https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs/

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I actually use 3 browsers, chrome for the extensions, firefox for...actually I'm not sure why maybe it takes less memory and edge to read mhtml because the others won't open it

Chrome, or you can use Edge

Chrome.

Firefox, but it doesn't has PWA support. which sucks. Atleast there is FirefoxPWA thing. but it's a workaround. But using pwa on chrome/edge and opening links outside of pwa domain results in link opening in chrome/edge and not my default browser.

and edge to read mhtml because the others won't open it

I remeber saving and opening mhtml files in firefox, but it doesn't support that now, and i don't remember if the feature was removed, or i used some plugin that stopped working when they introdused new system for extensions.

FF57 killed the addons you refer to.

Also, why anyone would ever use .mht is beyond me.

FF57 killed the addons you refer to.

Still salty about it.

I never stopped using them. I use seamonkey whenever possible, and it's still got XUL overlay support.
XULRunner was like "better electron." Shame it didn't catch on.

Mozilla's basically the Sega of its industry. People loved it around 2000, but then it destroyed almost everything good about itself and now produces at least 90% garbage. FF 3.6 was probably the last time I really felt unreservedly happy using Firefox.

I really hope they don't go full sega and embrace a competitor's platform (more than they already do; you need the V8 javascript engine to build Gecko/Spidermonkey now).

By the way, here's a handy tiny userContent.css snippet. Works in both FF and seamonkey to remove the white background from transparent images in the browser when viewing just the image.

CODE

body > img.transparent {
  background: transparent !important;
}

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 6 2022, 07:39

Firefox has the better suite of plugins for a power user, more features overall. Chrome is more idiot proof for normies. Comparable performance in normal use case. Pick your poison.

Microsoft Edge, dude
As long as Windows is still necessary for you, Edge does things a lot better than Chrome or Firefox

Firefox for general use, Chrome for business-related SNS, a bunch of other browsers for various uses when I'm seeking extra privacy.

Microsoft Edge, dude
As long as Windows is still necessary for you, Edge does things a lot better than Chrome or Firefox

🤮

Windows is almost never necessary, and edge is literally Chrome. And inferior to Mozilla's browser (despite their determination to ruin their technology).

This post has been edited by Mayriad: Feb 14 2022, 12:30

Pretty long thread, and it's not like my opinion counts.

But eh, might as well dump my opinion on things in here regardless.

Vivaldi, so chromium based.
Why? I'm a web developer, so I kind of need to make sure things work properly but I don't want to install Chrome itself.

Plus I like the tab stacking feature Vivaldi offers, since I usually leave a shitload of tabs open and it helps me group them together, for science obviously.

I tend to loathe (modern, framework-based) web development, and the "web developer" mentality.

Web pages should and can be simple enough that any browser can handle them completely. Javascript is almost never necessary (except maybe for games using canvas, or things that do encryption/decryption like Mega).

Web developers (and their managers) seem to generally be of the opinion that if something can be done, it should.

If your page is completely unusable in Netsurf, there's a problem with your mentality.

So yeah, I don't hold the views of most self-professed web developers in very high esteem. They're responsible for eating up my battery life, CPU cycles, and RAM by loading JQuery or Bootstrap or their bloaty compiled typescript to display, say, a newspaper article. Especially when the article can't be read at all without Javascript. Anything outside the HTML (and possibly the CSS) should be strictly decorative and not critical infrastructure on the vast majority of sites.

I practice what I preach, by the way. Not that I am going to share my personal site here. I use pragmatic CSS and HTML that still will look good with all styling disabled in the browser.

This forum almost manages to pull that off. It does well enough that I'd consider it to pass.

Web devs seem to be an extension of modern software engineering practices, so I'll put this statement out there for reflection: best way to assure software quality isn't to reuse code. The best way to assure software quality is to avoid using code whenever possible. Fewer moving parts makes for easier maintenance.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 2 2022, 09:55

Does anyone know why Chrome consumes CPU at times? All my life Chrome begins to overuse a core and that led me to move to Edge, because Firefox has details vs Chromium

Edge has all the problems Chrome does. Except it phones home to someone else.

Edit:
Wow, this forum/BB software even looks good in Dillo. And by building Dillo with FLTK 1.4 ("beta") it's even handling unicode text properly.

Wish I could still say the same for the rest of the site working in Dillo.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 3 2022, 07:12

Chrome:(. Although it eat my lots of memory spaces, I can’t drop it.

Firefox, it's serviceable for normies like me without the ram usage of Chrome/Edge.