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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Very interesting. I do wish we had more firefox based browsers though. A firefox based qutebrowser would be very nice, or some other take on keyboard usability, but keeping the firefox background. Unfourtunately, I've read that mozilla's backend is not as modular as chromium, leaving many of the alternative browsers contributing to google's web hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

I mean, for what it's worth, I've seen a techy user (i.e. non-dev) just customizing their Firefox with a Vim-shortcuts-extension and a userChrome.css-file and they liked that basically just as much as qutebrowser.

Not really any reason why that couldn't be set up a bit more professionally and compiled into a binary etc..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Most of the time I’m just happy using links. Of course I have graphical browsers like hardened Firefox and ungoogled chromium, but when I just need text, I reach for links, which is about 95% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

True, I only really use my graphical browser for the blog & Fediverse. I do most of my research on Lynx.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for thekernal.xyz. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.xserver.jp, xserver.jp

edit: another old post showing up on top for me! I need to pay attention to the date before I comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Am I missing something? Where is the rundown? Am i supposed to see a link that I'm not able to rn from beehaw?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

The error should be fixed now, I realized it while I was at lunch but couldn't do much to stop it from my flip phone.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)