Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I use FF as a primary browser on Desktop and Nightly in Android. There's much I could say about FF, but I think it would be futile.

In Debian, I'd use FF-LTS and regular FF. Since moving to Void, xbps allows only one version, so I use FF and Vivaldi.

I'd appreciate any opinions on Vivaldi. It's the only functional alternative browser I've found in the repos. But I have to start it with:

    LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
Which sucks, and applies to OpenShot and a lot of other software that gets fussy with intel chips in some versions of Linux. Chromium I prefer to avoid, and it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with. But that's all aside the point. Opinions, please...


> Chromium … it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with.

That sounds like the the keyring issue that pops up if you have your user account auto-login on machine start. If you don't let Chromium store passwords⁰¹ this can be safely disabled: see https://archive.is/G6pPH#ID15 ²

I ran into the issue when setting up a simple temporary public kiosk a short while back.

--------

[0] I don't, I prefer to keep my internet facing UAs and my credential stores a bit more separated than that. It also removes some friction from moving between browsers, when one annoys me enough to (re)try another.

[1] If you do let Chromium store passwords, then you can still do this, but not safely as per the warnings in that article.

[2] Or https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15 for the original, if you enjoy consent dialogues or want to be commercially internet stalked


Can you run a different Firefox via flatpak? (Or x11docker or plain docker, or nix, or I guess Snap)


Yes. Thanks for the reminder.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: