Mastodawn

@kingtor well fwiw, i'm a "fediverse type", & i continue using my desktop Linux with daily delight. i laugh about, often at, the many panic merchants volubly screaming to abandon ship now. so much operatic hysteria.

// Droppie 24/3/25: Disable all fucken AI:
user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);

#FirefoxNightly with #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #TreeStyleTab + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉💯✅👍
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#FirefoxNightly with #NativeVerticalTabs and #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉
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#FirefoxNightly + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #Sidebery = 🥳🎉

#DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen

Droppie [anonsys] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Dec 8

You’ve just been upgraded to Firefox Nightly 148!

Every 4 to 5 weeks, a new major version of Firefox is released and as a result, the Nightly version increases as well.

This is a good time to thank you for helping us make Firefox better and to give you some pointers to documentation, communication channels and news sites related to Nightly that may be of interest to you.

#FirefoxNightly with #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #TreeStyleTab + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉💯✅👍

#FirefoxNightly with #NativeVerticalTabs and #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉

#FirefoxNightly + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #Sidebery = 🥳🎉

#DropbearPooterising

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Droppie Nov 18

@gtronix i use

so have had this for a while, & it is certainly helpful. overall though, until we get nestable groups, thus facilitating in effect tab trees, this belated advent of foxy #tabgroups remains inadequate for me, ergo each day i continue to use my #TreeStyleTab profile not my #NativeVerticalTabs profile.

Droppie Oct 24

totes agree with critiques like this. #ZenBrowser lost me a long time ago with its terrible unreliability for tab preservation across restarts, & its bizarrely unintuitive "aesthetics over utility" fetish. 🤯

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen_browser/comments/1oequoi/newish_zen_user_confused_about_the_simple_things/

each week i ask myself why i've not yet uninstalled it, & each week i answer that i'm clinging on in the fading hope of a design eureka moment... which i think is prolly delusional on my part. every other update i launch it to see if sanity has returned, only to close it again in frustration.

meanwhile...

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #SimpleTabGroups + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = 💜 🎉 🥳👯‍♀️

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Apr 6

Like a mindless moth to a flame, this morn i was tempted to give #ZenBrowser yet another chance, despite its disappointing history of letting me down, eg:

Sadly, yet again after only ~two hours, i had to abandon it again, when i discovered that the bug with the search-bar dropdown menu remains broken, such that choosing impromptu searches in my alternative search engines remains impossible.

So, back i go, yet again, to the lovely... and reliable...

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan: (@MsDropbear42@infosec.space)

Have decided to give #ZenBrowser another go, but with conditions: - #Sidebery, not its unreliable\* & *not-my-cup-of-tea* native tabs - #FirefoxSecondSidebar https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, not its unsatisfactory native #WebPanels In case anyone wonders, this [temporary?] change from my hitherto daily :firefox_nightly: [#FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar] has ***nothing*** to do with the recent global #FUD wrt Mozilla's #TOU / #EULA, but instead is due to the aesthetic pleasantness of :zenbrowser: & the desire to use its #SplitTabView #TabSplitView #TabPaneView; two undeniable advantages over Nightly. \* the Zen subreddit is full of users posting that Zen spontaneously lost all their tabs, or all their pinned tabs, or all their unpinned tabs. In my own past months of using Zen with its native #Workspaces & tabs, it also happened to me, twice, & it is most exasperating.

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 11

@fnwbr And yet, here i be, revelling in the delightful UX that is my , with all the #telemetry disabled, the #AI disabled, numerous other parameters hardened via my #userJS, with the exquisite #Sidebery & its infinitely-nestable tree-tabs & multiple #Workspaces on its LHS, & the brilliant project #FirefoxSecondSidebar with my 21 #WebPanels on its RHS. It's such a great daily browsing UX, unfazed by the last ten days of global #FUD [all the so-called nasties can be disabled, either via simple clicks in the Settings UI, or otherwise via about:config / user.js]. Herd-mentality is a ridiculous trait of humans. 🙄🤦‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 10

@MsDropbear42 Oh ffs, this latest experiment with #ZenBrowser has ended after only a few hours, due to yet another catastrophic failure, preceded by various annoyances:

the dedicated Search Bar refused to show the drop-down menu of alternative search engines [works fine in and ]
the #Stylus AO refused to respond to clicks on its various usage & management icons in its drop-down menu [works fine in and ]
a link i opened from my Masto #Statuzer page decided to behave like i'd used #Glance [i did not], then when i converted it into a normal tab, entirely froze the Statuzer tab
wondering if possibly restarting Zen might fix the above, i tried to do so, which then destroyed my carefully crafted Zen profile... what ensued was a UI without various standard changes i'd made [eg, the Search Bar was gone again, the native tabs bar refused to Collapse again], but worst of all, all my open tabs were gone... again 😲 🤯🙄🤦‍♀️😡

My dear old might be less pretty, less visually exciting, & might not have native split tabs, but far out it is & remains way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more reliable than Zen. I mean, it's really a bit silly... is Alpha, is Beta, yet the former is generally rock solid reliable in the ~decade i've been using it. Otoh, all my experiments with Zen, over the past ~12-18 months, have ended in disappointment, frustration, & often also destruction.

So, yet again, i return to...

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 8

@eknobl Also, the native #TabGroups have been working well for several weeks in , & in my recent testing they also now seem to have become reliable in . The whole native #VerticalTabs UI ootb has ridiculous amounts of padding per tab, such that a stupidly small number of tabs can be open before invoking the scrollbar... i fixed this via some #CSS. The one remaining major design paradigm i dislike is that the tab groups are primitive like in Vivaldi & Chromium, ie, only single-level; no hierarchical trees are possible. Hence, even though the new VTs & TGs are aesthetically pleasing & quite usable, i still keep returning to Sidebery.

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 6

@thelinuxEXP Hi Nick. Oh well, fwiw, i continue to trust my , but i reinforce that sense of equanimity with my long-standing disabling of all the telemetry, both via the UI Preferences check-boxes, & my discrete additions to my user.js. I do not defend Mozilla's unbelievably hamfisted binfire they created last week & subsequently, but i do til further notice accept their explanation [&, as i said, i have forced all telemetry off anyway].

11 [which i think you installed] is nearing end-of-life [but i happily ran it for over a year til a few months ago], & #Floorp 12 via recently released Beta is improving each few days but so far remains very broken & feature-incomplete.

was a very interesting option i ran for several months, but have largely lost interest in it nowadays as its development has headed off in areas of little interest to me, whilst neglecting features of importance to me.

#Tor #LibreWolf #Waterfox all fail to meet my daily usability preferences.

So til further notice, i remain happily in this mode, fwiw:

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

Best wishes with your alternative choices, hope it all goes well for you.

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Feb 28

@kinetix @mitten It's not for me to recommend, coz i have no way of knowing other peep's use-cases, threat models, & UX priorities. However i'll illustrate with some dot points for me... but none of this might pertain to you/others. Everyone needs to make their own decision.

privacy & security are high priority for me
a sophisticated browser UX is high priority for me, including high levels of customisability
the preceding two points are clearly in collision, & when that arises, i tip towards UX over P&S, so long as P&S still remain above my acceptable minimum thresholds
thus, all chromium browsers are off the table for me, coz... google, & Mv3, thus no more uBO... i refuse to accept that
so it still needs to be a Gecko browser for me, meaning... original FF, or fork?
i've tested & rejected both #Tor & #Librewolf, coz both have sacrificed too much UX for P&S
i've extensively tested & used for several months, both #Floorp & #ZenBrowser. I was initially very thrilled by both, but the latter is now heading off in UX directions completely anathema to me, whilst the former [being atm still v11, ie, #ESR-forked] is several months overdue on release of its heralded v12 that will be rebased to FF-release version. I keenly await this.
so for the time being, i remain happily using ...

#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, #Floorp, #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

the same positive UX + P&S combo also pertains [for me; i am NOT generalising to other peeps] for vanilla #Firefox, it's just that i like being more on the cutting edge for faster arrival of new goodies & bug fixes.

Fwiw.

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​ (@MsDropbear42@infosec.space)

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan: (@MsDropbear42@infosec.space)