Web Browser General - Fuck Chromium. All my homies hate Chromium.

[big pauper]

does anybody know of any good translation addons for firefox? the google translate addon for chrome is absolutely perfect it makes a button when you highlight stuff and if you click on it it will pop up with the translation and give you the option to pronounce it. on firefox you have to right click and then click on a submenu and they just dump the text you selected into a google translate URL in a new tab. which is... it's completely worthless from a user interface perspective what good is that

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I'm now looking at the Linux "minimal" browsers like qute or surf, but I'm too retarded and tech-illiterate to evaluate if these browsers secure and private enough.

They are

Granted, the articles haven't been updated n a while but there's no harm in actually trying them out for yourself.

 

[KYSing myself brb]

Is it a bad idea to enable cookies after close on tor browser for some sites its annoying having to log in everytime.

It's easier to track you and somewhat defeats the purpose of using Tor if you're identifiable through sessions. I would bite the bullet and login every time by hand if you're thread model requires to use Tor then you probably should also cope with that inconvenience.

Edit: Your OPsec should always take account for being retarded on accident. Having cookie saving enabled leaves a lot room for retarded mistakes being made by accident.

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

Anyone using brave notice how search engine bangs always go to a capcha now?
If anyone has a fix I'd appreciate it.

I also found a lot of my privacy tool extensions are causing issues (localCDN, fast forwarding scripts)

I should just switch to Firefox but they became niggers.

 

[GNU Abyss]

I'm now looking at the Linux "minimal" browsers like qute or surf, but I'm too retarded and tech-illiterate to evaluate if these browsers secure and private enough.

Minimal browsers are a misnomer. Every single one of these that has excellent compatibility with web standards is, without exception, a major browser engine under the hood. All they do is strip everything else, including browser chrome (the UI), and use the engine itself without any frills. Addons are also missing, meaning they're mostly worthless.

 

[CEO of Autism]

Is it a bad idea to enable cookies after close on tor browser for some sites its annoying having to log in everytime.

For Tor I wouldn't enable cookies for the reasons @KYSing myself brb explained, but perhaps your problem would be mitigated by saving passwords (stored locally, shouldn't be a problem) and setting a master password so it becomes easier to log in to your accounts.

 

[Hellwalker]

As it turns out, there was a way to only store cookies for specific sites in Brave this entire time.
It's in:
Settings > Privacy and Security > Content > Additional Content Settings > On-device site data
and it's the 2nd option. "Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all windows"

And the part to add sites that you can save cookies to specifcally is under customized behaviors:

I can't believe that I've somehow missed this the entire time I've tried to search for a way to do this but I'm glad I've finally found it.

I like Brave because it's way faster than Firefox/Librewolf ever was. Some sites that I regularly access took an eternity to full load on Firefox and all it's forks. This site being an example. On Brave, they load instantly.

The only thing that kept getting in my way from daily driving it was my cookie ordeal but now that it's solved, I think I've finally converted to the Lion master race.

 

[Max Weber]

Bloomberg: AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser (archive)

We wished for Chromium to separate from Google, and the monkey's paw curled.

 

[Magicat]

Floorp 12 stable release is pushed back to the 20th

 

[Tremolo]

Bloomberg: AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser (archive)

We wished for Chromium to separate from Google, and the monkey's paw curled.

It'd always curl if they had to separate with a buy-out (which they would, browser engineers aren't going to work on the most used open-source engine for free considering how increasingly harder it gets to maintain them, so zero chance of them splintering to a non-profit org) because anyone with the money to buy even a single Google subsidiary would be as bad (or close to as bad) as them.
Of course there are bad alternatives and worse alternatives. Perplexity is AI jeet cancer so they're strictly the latter, but I honestly can't even think of an ideal worst company to own Chromium really, no one important outside of Sam Cuckman and perplexity have offered iirc

 

[Max Weber]

Could've sworn there was an ad blocking thread, but I couldnt find it, so I'll just drop this here:
Mozilla: Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. (archive)

 

[They were once men]

Floorp 12 stable release is pushed back to the 20th
View attachment 7770532

based love floorp, quality browser with all the firefox faggotry removed

 

[Magicat]

does anybody know of any good translation addons for firefox? the google translate addon for chrome is absolutely perfect it makes a button when you highlight stuff and if you click on it it will pop up with the translation and give you the option to pronounce it. on firefox you have to right click and then click on a submenu and they just dump the text you selected into a google translate URL in a new tab. which is... it's completely worthless from a user interface perspective what good is that

Bit late to reply to this. Have you seen this:

I'm not sure when it was added to Firefox, but it doesn't look like it's thrown into a new tab or Google translate. Highlight -> right-click -> translate

Some browsers support web panels which can open temporary pages. E.g. in Floorp:

Spoiler

It doesn't have to be Google translate. That's just a default one for example's sake. You could set it to deepL, Yandex or whatever else.

You can see Google translate struggles to parse 26 o'clock^
Floorp (Firefox) translate has a different hiccup:

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Just a reminder on this version of "Google fucks with the internet", Lets Encrypt is slated to remove Extended Key Usage from TLS (and thus fucking with many a self-hosted VPN/setups to circumvent censors).

Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026. Most users who use Let’s Encrypt to secure websites won’t be affected and won’t need to take any action. However, if you use Let’s Encrypt certificates as client certificates to authenticate to a server, this change may impact you.

To minimize disruption, Let’s Encrypt will roll this change out in multiple stages, using ACME Profiles:

• Today: Let’s Encrypt already excludes the Client Authentication EKU on our tlsserver ACME profile. You can verify compatibility by issuing certificates with this profile now.
• October 1, 2025: Let’s Encrypt will launch a new tlsclient ACME profile which will retain the TLS Client Authentication EKU. Users who need additional time to migrate can opt-in to this profile.
• February 11, 2026: the default classic ACME profile will no longer contain the Client Authentication EKU.
• May 13, 2026: the tlsclient ACME profile will no longer be available and no further certificates with the Client Authentication EKU will be issued.

Once this is completed, Let’s Encrypt will switch to issuing with new intermediate Certificate Authorities which also do not contain the TLS Client Authentication EKU.

For some background information, all certificates include a list of intended uses, known as Extended Key Usages (EKU). Let’s Encrypt certificates have included two EKUs: TLS Server Authentication and TLS Client Authentication.

• TLS Server Authentication is used to authenticate connections to TLS Servers, like websites.
• TLS Client Authentication is used by clients to authenticate themselves to a server. This feature is not typically used on the web, and is not required on the certificates used on a website.

After this change is complete, only TLS Server Authentication will be available from Let’s Encrypt.

This change is prompted by changes to Google Chrome’s root program requirements, which impose a June 2026 deadline to split TLS Client and Server Authentication into separate PKIs. Many uses of client authentication are better served by a private certificate authority, and so Let’s Encrypt is discontinuing support for TLS Client Authentication ahead of this deadline.

Q: What the fuck does this do?
A: It allows for simple setup of mutral TLS, where the server AND the client authenticate each other. Usually TLS just has the client authenticate the server but not the other way around.

Q: How does this affect me?
A: You used to be able to run a VPN or proxy to circumvent censors easily. Or some programs (VMWare come to mind) with mTLS. Now you have to pay to get the client side one or roll your own solution. It is also one of the reasons why the best china forces all website to downgrade to TLS 1.2 and rate limits/drops self-signed certs.

Q: Why?
A: Google got upset I think because people were bypassing fingerprinting/telemetry with this.

Q: What can I do if I'm using mutural TLS?
A: Pay $$$ out the ass to a company, or self-sign client cert side.

 

[ghastlyretard]

able to run a VPN or proxy

Is this going to impact my use of Caddy as a reverse proxy to easily run https for my self hosted shit?

 

[Burnt Effigy]

Is this going to impact my use of Caddy as a reverse proxy to easily run https for my self hosted shit?

No, this is exclusively if you were using client authentication.

"Rolling your own solution' isn't that hard, 5 openssl commands at most, and you can find it on the first Google result, however, if someone runs deep packet inspection on you and intercepts self signed certs, you are terminally fucked, and your only remaining option for client auth is layer 7 authentication.

Although, to be fair, in shitholes like China or Iran, they may give up and just go one layer lower, banning mTLS no matter the certificate, it's way easier to implement, and there isn't any legitimate reason to do that, right, chud?

 

[They were once men]

Anyone have a verdict on the new version of floorp?

 

[Dreamland]

Could've sworn there was an ad blocking thread, but I couldnt find it, so I'll just drop this here:
Mozilla: Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. (archive)

>HTML is a computer program
Imagine being such a european retard.

If you read a magazine and you choose not to read the full page ad and turn it over you just committed a felony in germany because you hacked the ink on the paper, give me a fucking break.

Websites and the uppercase Internet are a pull medium. The person reading the site decides what to pull and what not. Not even the threat of life in Spandau will change that.

 

[Max Weber]

>HTML is a computer program
Imagine being such a european retard.

If you read a magazine and you choose not to read the full page ad and turn it over you just committed a felony in germany because you hacked the ink on the paper, give me a fucking break.

Websites and the uppercase Internet are a pull medium. The person reading the site decides what to pull and what not. Not even the threat of life in Spandau will change that.

Funnier than that, every browser has its own default CSS preset, which is injected into every page and then overriden by actual site's styles. So does every browser violate copyright then?

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Although, to be fair, in shitholes like China or Iran, they may give up and just go one layer lower, banning mTLS no matter the certificate, it's way easier to implement, and there isn't any legitimate reason to do that, right, chud?

They'll just force you to use insecure TLS for connections out of china. There's a legitmate use for mTLS, and the China Internet Safety Administration (Think NIST but with the power to license websites) isn't that retarded.