Tag Archive for ‘Browser’

Rick Findlay, writing for Reclaim the Net:

Brave shipped Containers this week. Version 1.92 of the browser lets you wall off tabs from one another so that cookies and site data stay locked inside whichever container you opened them in, even when two tabs point at the same website.

You can now hold several identities at once without the browser blending them together.

Firefox has had this feature available for years through its first-party Multi-Account Containers extension. But I stopped using Firefox a while back because it lacked an ad blocker on iOS.

One of the features I missed from Firefox was containers, though. And now they’re available on Brave.

And this is convenient timing for me — I just started a project at work where containers make things significantly easier. I can log in to a work-specific account within a container and remain logged in to my personal account in normal browser tabs, ensuring I don’t accidentally do anything on the work account because I forgot to log out.

➝ Source: reclaimthenet.org

From a thread in Brave’s community forums:

To bring back the Open as window option, go to brave://flags and set Shortcuts not Apps to Disabled . Once you do this, the option will appear again

I didn’t realize that this option was disabled by default in Brave and other Chromium-based browsers until I started setting up my Framework laptop. I found this thread, which had the solution.

➝ Source: community.brave.com

Nicolas Magand:

Today, after nearly 20 years of loyalty to Safari, I’m considering switching to another default browser on my personal computer. I mean, why is it so hard to watch a YouTube video without hiccups, and why can I only choose from a selection of 4 search engines, including three Bing-based?

The search engine limitation is one of the main reasons I’ve switched from Safari on my iPhone. I tried using the xSearch extension, but there were times it just didn’t work as expected. I ended up switching to Firefox for a bit and then moved to Brave, which is what I’m using today.

I’ve stuck with Brave because of its built in ad blocker, support for my preferred search engine, and the ability to sync with Brave on my Linux install.

➝ Source: thejollyteapot.com

Brave:

Starting with the current Brave Nightly, and in version 1.45 when it releases in October, the Brave browser will block cookie consent notifications on Android and Desktop (and, soon after, on iOS). Cookie consent notifications are an infamous and near-constant annoyance on the Web. They break and disrupt one of the main benefits of the Web: the ability to browse content across many sites and publishers conveniently and easily. And, what is ironic, many cookie consent systems actually track users, introducing the exact harm the consent systems were supposed to prevent.

New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications.

I’m looking forward to this feature launching.

➝ Source: brave.com

A nifty browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers that will automatically redirect YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and other links to privacy-respecting alternative frontends. I’d love to see something like this for Safari on iOS.

➝ Source: github.com

Michael Harley, on the state of the web browser market:

Has the Internet just become an ad delivery network? Is there so much money sloshing around from ad people that software companies/teams doing browser development are simply unable to pass it up? They have to take the money because it’s so much, but everyone seems to recognize people don’t want to be served ads, or tracked across the web. The browser developer organizations recognize the concerns of users but really all they’re willing to do about it is use the word private in the title of their ad tracking platform.

Maybe I’m being too naive, rigid or unrealistic but I don’t want to be served ads at all. I’m sorry that businesses have built their websites using an ad-based model but that’s not my problem. Offer me a subscription service, and if it’s valuable enough to me then I’ll pay for a subscription.

I’m currently using Brave because, despite my lack of interest in their ad network or BAT, I appreciate that they’re trying to build a business model that doesn’t rely on Google or other major tech companies for funding . And it’s easy enough to disable the features I dislike.

I’m not thrilled about it being built on Chromium, though. I hate the idea that there could be a future where the entirety of the market is Safari, Chrome, and Chrome-based browsers. But until Mozilla gets their act together and spends a little more time building a great browser and a little less time encouraging censorship, I’ll have to settle with the least offensive option.

➝ Source: obsolete29.com

I recently switched back to Safari as my default browser on iOS. Although I would prefer to support third-party browsers, Apple has restricted them to such a degree that it’s a pretty bad experience overall. And with the introduction of extensions in iOS 15, the benefits of using Safari are hard to ignore.

This browser extension — xSearch — has become one of my favorites. I have it configured to use my instance of SearX as the default search engine and setup a number of shortcuts to mimic my most commonly used !Bangs from my time with DuckDuckGo. It’s a fantastic product.

➝ Source: apps.apple.com

I got on a kick of implementing security-related headers on Initial Charge this week. Most of these were fairly easy to add, simply copy and pasting some code from various tutorials into my .htaccess file and then testing. But Content Security Policy was a major pain. It essentially tells the browser what content is allowed to run on webpages and where it can load that content from.

This add-on made the process much easier. Once installed, I opened the add-on’s menu, enabled recording of my site, then browsed to every type of page I could think of — on the front-end and the backend. The add-on kept a running tab on all the different types of content loaded and where it was loaded from. Then I grabbed the markup provided from within the add-on’s menu and added it to the site’s .htaccess file.

I’m using some declarations that are considered unsafe, notably the ability to run inline JavaScript and CSS. But now that I have the header implemented, I can go through the process of adjusting that content to run from safer sources and then change my security headers accordingly.

➝ Source: addons.mozilla.org