Software Endorsements

[Flaming Dumpster]

Chromium is a memory black hole, I don't know why it is, perhaps it's how it addresses resources? Or is something more nefarious at play?

It's funny given when Chrome first came on the scene, it was praised for its performance and lean resource consumption. At that time Firefox was an absolute monster that would easily butt up against the constraints of its 32-bit address space assuming it could get that far before killing your PC.

I would say the tables have turned but they're really just as bad as each other. That being said it can't be helped if some websites are just awful and fuck up your PC. The admin panel for a particularly awful security vendor makes Firefox balloon to 10 GB memory usage if I forget to close the tab and it is left to sit for a day.

Sadly if the Mozilla devs just killed pages that allocated >1 GB of RAM, the vendor would probably just tell people: "We don't support Firefox, go use Chrome!" rather than fix their shit code.

 

[Samhain]

If you have a ton of browser windows and tabs open and are running into memory problems, check out One-Tab.

 

[I Do Not Post]

Best browser extension that I ever installed besides uBlock was OneTab. It serves the same purpose as keeping many tabs open at once: keeping a list of pages you want to revisit but can't justify favoriting. The difference of course is that it is literally just a list of hyperlinks in a very small tab that sits to the left of your regular tabs, so it saves a lot on RAM usage.

People will do literally anything other than use bookmarks, huh.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

People will do literally anything other than use bookmarks, huh.

Well like I said, it's basically for throwaway pages that I don't plan to visit more than once, but don't have the time to immediately look at. I reserve bookmarks/favorites for stuff that I plan to visit continually.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

If you have a ton of browser windows and tabs open and are running into memory problems, check out One-Tab.

Another workaround for people allergic to organizing things is Auto Tab Discard

Basically lets you unload tabs automatically with a lot of options for customizing it so it doesn't do retarded shit like sleep a tab which has audio playing.

 

[fartsnstuf]

i know it was posted in this thread before but my searching skills is dogshit, there was a software where you can convert images by right-clicking on it, caveat is that it's not infanview cause i've tried that before but my user experience was not as optimal as it could have been

 

[Slav Power]

i know it was posted in this thread before but my searching skills is dogshit, there was a software where you can convert images by right-clicking on it, caveat is that it's not infanview cause i've tried that before but my user experience was not as optimal as it could have been

XnShell

 

[Hellwalker]

This isn't a software endorsement but I don't know of any other place to put this. If you use Discord like me and also fucking hate the new UI update, a guy on Reddit found out a way to revert it back to the way it was before. Vencord with the Experiments plugin (And any other similar plugin for other clients) is required for this.

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Spoiler: Local

PSA: You CAN disable the new Discord UI layout!

To disable the new UI, find a way to alter experiments. This is baked into vencord, haven't used any other discord clients in a long time, so if it isn't then go find a plugin

Search for "Desktop Visual Refresh" in the experiments and set it to "Not Eligible" and boom! You can now see discord without having your eyes bleed!

Custom themes also still work when the UI is reverted.

 

[Niggergante]

This isn't a software endorsement but I don't know of any other place to put this. If you use Discord like me and also fucking hate the new UI update, a guy on Reddit found out a way to revert it back to the way it was before. Vencord with the Experiments plugin (And any other similar plugin for other clients) is required for this.
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(L, A, A)

Spoiler: Local

PSA: You CAN disable the new Discord UI layout!
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To disable the new UI, find a way to alter experiments. This is baked into vencord, haven't used any other discord clients in a long time, so if it isn't then go find a plugin

Search for "Desktop Visual Refresh" in the experiments and set it to "Not Eligible" and boom! You can now see discord without having your eyes bleed!

Custom themes also still work when the UI is reverted.

I just use a custom theme and I haven't even noticed lol

 

[Hellwalker]

I just use a custom theme and I haven't even noticed lol

The new UI broke the custom themes that I previously used before it. I was using ClearVision then and it turned into a confusing mess after the update. Recently tested Ultra with the new UI and it also didn't change anything except for the font.

 

[fartsnstuf]

XnShell

that is exactly the software i was looking for, thank you

 

[Hellwalker]

Materialgram is a great replacement for the regular Telegram desktop client. I initially looked for an alternative client just to not see ads but it has a lot more useful features than just no ads.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Materialgram is a great replacement for the regular Telegram desktop client. I initially looked for an alternative client just to not see ads but it has a lot more useful features than just no ads.

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Just installed Materialgram and went to the MATI channel and there's an ad right there
Is there some setting I missed?

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Firefox/Librewolf since version 136 has gotten vertical tabs natively without having to use various plugins and css modification. I just discovered this while poking around. Just right click the tab bar and it'll be in the context menu.

 

[Hellwalker]

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Just installed Materialgram and went to the MATI channel and there's an ad right there
Is there some setting I missed?

I haven't seen any ads since I installed it. I didn't need to go into the settings for anything related to ads. I'm also only in the Kiwi Farms channel.

Guess I was to hasty in recommending, mainly since I expect an alternative client for any privacy invasive platform (The ones who push ads on you like crazy) to get rid of all that junk.

 

[Hamsteroid]

Firefox/Librewolf since version 136 has gotten vertical tabs natively without having to use various plugins and css modification. I just discovered this while poking around. Just right click the tab bar and it'll be in the context menu.

I use the Zen Browser (it's based on firefox) on my laptop atm. The auto hide of the vertical tabs and address bar help a lot on smaller screens. Really like the glance feature (open link as kind of floating window in the active tab) too.

 

[Hellwalker]

?
Just installed Materialgram and went to the MATI channel and there's an ad right there
Is there some setting I missed?

I haven't seen any ads since I installed it. I didn't need to go into the settings for anything related to ads. I'm also only in the Kiwi Farms channel.

Guess I was to hasty in recommending, mainly since I expect an alternative client for any privacy invasive platform (The ones who push ads on you like crazy) to get rid of all that junk.

Launched Materialgram and I saw an ad. Strange. I haven't seen one up until now. I guess it's my fault for not being entirely clear since it didn't mention being ad-less in its feature list. I just expected it to since that's what most alternative clients for software does.

I do still think it's a useful piece of software that is better than the default Telegram client.

 

[cutefluffwon]

Just use Firefox. IF (You) think (((they))) spy on you, just use arkenfox.js or manually turn off the few pings to Mozilla. There, you have a perfectly functional browser WITHOUT the bloat and background crypto miner.

 

[Battlefield42]

Launched Materialgram and I saw an ad. Strange. I haven't seen one up until now. I guess it's my fault for not being entirely clear since it didn't mention being ad-less in its feature list. I just expected it to since that's what most alternative clients for software does.

I do still think it's a useful piece of software that is better than the default Telegram client.

Those pesky crypto ads always show up. I honestly can't be bothered to jump between different clients that die randomly.

 

[Slav Power]

If you're using a ThinkPad running Windows and you'd like for the middle TrackPoint button to behave closer to how it does in Linux, where tapping it sends a middle click but holding it down scrolls with the TrackPoint movement, X-Mouse Button Control is the best hardware agnostic solution for it, though it can do a shitheap of other mouse oriented functions if you're interested in that sort of thing. It's super tiny, light on resources and you can hide the tray icon so it's like it's not even there.

You can rebind middle mouse click to "Change Movement To Scroll", which will behave as you'd expect. tap it, middle click for closing tabs and whatnot. Hold it down, now you can do a controlled scroll with the TrackPoint. Really fucking retarded that ELAN didn't make this a standard option in the Windows driver but whatever, it's Windows so there's always some clusterfucked way to unfuck something. MMB scrolling makes the TrackPoint that much better.

Pro tip: go to Settings > Pointer and uncheck "Change cursor when using Movement To Scroll" to avoid the fugly cursor when you do MMB scrolling. I don't know why it's on by default or why you can't change it to something nicer, but at least you can turn it off.