From Ryan Brown, posted by BerserkerDog on Reddit.

Today, Waterfox turns 15 years old.
The post celebrating the anniversary makes an interesting and important announcement: Waterfox will be switching from uBlock Origin to using Brave's adblock library.

This means Waterfox's content filtering will be done by the browser, rather than a browser extension. The announcement cites performance and uBlock Origin's problematic GPL license (which is incompatible with Waterfox's MPL license) as major reasons for the change.

There is one notable, and in my opinion somewhat concerning, note in the article: the adblocker will be disabled by default on whatever Waterfox's search partner is (currently Startpage). This is especially problematic as search ads are a common vector for malware.

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/

Correction: I initially stated it was unclear if Waterfox allowed users to reenable the adblocker on Startpage. That was completely false. The article itself says users will have the option to reenable it.
Thanks to @iyashikei_kris for pointing this out

#Waterfox #WaterfoxBrowser

#Waterfox (and presumably other #Firefox-based browsers) can save your open tabs so when you close and re-open the browser, all your tabs are still there. However when you click on a tab, it takes a second or two to load.

Is there a way to specify certain saved tabs to load automatically when opening the browser?

15 Years of Forking

https://mander.xyz/post/49582131

In #Waterfox, at least in #Gnome, you can navigate tabs with SHIFT+ALT+ARROW.

I've been yearning for that for like two years.

In Firefox, it's CTRL+PGUP/PGDOWN, and I find that super awkward. That's a preference thing. Not saying it's bad. But it doesn't work for me.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian

Replacing the Waterfox icon on macOS

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3105-Replacing-the-Waterfox-icon-on-macOS

More monkeying around with OpenBSD. I spent a bunch of time getting LXQt working but the themeing was taking too much time so I threw more ram at the VM and installed KDE. The goal was to learn about OpenBSD, not LXQT. Ha.

Lots of the standard apps are there in OpenBSD but I need to find out how to get Librewolf and Waterfox going. Having done zero research, I'm assuming I need to compile from source.

I saw an article out using "Molly" as an alternate Signal Messenger client (xn--gckvb8fzb.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/). May try it in the future.

The KDE Plasma version is 6.4.5. IIRC KDE is stopping X11 support so I will need to figure out something else I guess. I've seen threads about Wayland on OpenBSD but didn't go down the rabbit hole yet. What little I read implied not ready for prime time.

The VM feels pretty snappy even though the QEMU agent doesn't really help with video options. This is using the VGA driver setup to get a decent resolution.

I really need to get this Jeep back on the road. I miss it.

#OpenBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #LXQt #VM #QEMU #Librewolf #Waterfox #X11 #Wayland #Signal