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I'm having weird issues with my Wifi where it will just suddenly stop working (Plasma will show "no available connections") and I have to hard reset the machine because Linux won't shut down otherwise. It's not a hardware issue since it doesn't happen on Windows.

In that case, it's best to hope the workplace enables the enterprise policy.

Vivaldi has an adblocker built-in but has no cosmetic filtering unfortunately. I did ask and they said it's been prioritised given the MV3 problems.

My Apollo plush arriving.

Props to them for keeping at it. Need to consume more Star Trek stuff, my extent is that Badgey from Lower Decks is cute

Same for the fediverse tbh. I've actually seen people treat it like an exclusive nerd club, then wonder why people are staying on Twitter or choosing Bluesky instead.

tfw can't date the robots

A lot of the Firefox users you mention have probably moved to Vivaldi, given that it has implemented features that Firefox had via extensions before they went all in on WebExtensions.

+1 for Vivaldi. If you remember old, Presto-era Opera you'll feel right at home with it. I know there are some people who moved from Firefox to it, too.

Only thing is, their integrated adblocker doesn't support cosmetic filtering right now, but it's in the works.

I'll just take a piss break when an ad comes on, then

"MCDONALD'S!"

and if Firefox is about giving the user a choice, if they want it to look like Opera, why stop them?

Looks nice! You might want to share it to the Firefox CSS community, too: !firefoxcss@lemmy.world

And even when they say tab hibernation does exist, they're calling OP a dumbass. If I did that to my friends who want to try Linux, they'd be back on Windows in a heartbeat.

I've also been shouted at here for telling a user asking about Vivaldi that the culture here does not like Chromium-based browsers like it and they likely won't get their answer here. It's like they wanted me to shut up and not criticise their behaviour.

I saw a clip of it happening on Safari.

Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.

EDIT: I've seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol.

I think the main issue is the people here suggesting and evangelising Firefox not really listening to those who aren't, which frustrates the other person. I think I fell into this with the fediverse, in the early days of Elon fucking up Twitter. There are perfectly valid reasons to not use Firefox right now. Maybe one browser or other works better for them, or has that one killer feature they can't live without. Firefox has that for some of us, too. Or Firefox has some weird quirk or bug that other browsers don't.

I personally use Firefox and Vivaldi. Vivaldi has tab tiling which is great for when I'm in the zone adding music to MusicBrainz or RYM, and it's not too clunky either. Tile Tabs WE doesn't cut it for me. For casual browsing, vertical tabs is nice and I use Firefox + Sidebery for that, which is better than Vivaldi's vertical tab implementation.

Those two aren't bad, IMO. It lines up with what people think their principles should be.

You want something to make you worry? They're integrating Fakespot, an AI-based review scanner that Mozilla acquired a while back, into Firefox. Never mind that industries are having problems auto-scanning content for AI generated prose...

Wish this got upvoted more tbh. The devs of Pulse Browser are trying to make an environment where making a Firefox fork would be easier, but it's not like Chromium where the engine could be easily embedded. I've also heard Second Life had to move to Chromium for their embedded browser after using Gecko and having problems with it.

I think Apple needs to let Music go from the release cycle of the operating systems, especially if they're doubling down on Android and Windows support.