Leaflet @ that_leaflet @lemmy.world

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Largely the same two sources as you describe.

• Firefox and Chromium
• GrapheneOS Web browsing

The first source mentions a couple of issues, Of those, the only one I see to be fixed is the GPU process not being sandboxed on Windows.

Sorry, meant to say Firefox OS.

Anyways, fixed it.

One thing I don’t like about Firefox is that its security is not great compared to Chromium. It has less sandboxing and weaker sandboxing.

Firefox sandboxing is especially bad on Android and Linux.

They they do make up for it a tiny bit with better support for ad blocking, which lowers the chance of landing on malicious changes.

Though realistically not many people care about security when choosing a browser. They use old versions and resist the prompts to upgrade.

Heroic is really nice and what I recommend, but the UI is a bit clunky and spread out.

Strange. Discord, ProtonMail, ProtonUp-Qt, and Spotify should all work perfectly. Except maybe some drag and drop issues for Discord and ProtonMail? And Discord's activity status is blocked from tracking you. What issues did you have specifically?

I can see OpenRGB having issues given that tries to talk to the hardware itself, did you install the udev rules?

Handbrake has access to all your files by default so that shouldn't be an issue.

What Flatpaks did you have issues with?

I’ve had no issues with the ProtonVPN flatpak on Fedora Silverblue.

Firefox is taking that icon from your GTK theme. And that’s the maximize button in the Papirus theme. So this is intended behavior.

You’d have to modify the theme or tell Firefox to use a title bar to fix it.

Are you using an icon theme? Papirus?

The Change proposal has been withdrawn by the author: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-wide/156330/57

I believe some of the other toolbar buttons also stop working.

Fedora and Red Hat are innovating image-based operating systems. Universal Blue builds on that work.

It would take effort to port that work to Arch. Arch is also a rolling distro, not updating means not getting security updates. Fedora's release cycle allows them to get more stability, they don't have to be using the latest version.

Paragon’s NTFS driver was also upstreamed in the kernel in like 5.15.

SteamOS does not get reported as Arch.

It seems that KDE does not plan on supporting Xlibre, though it may still work.

It makes sense that they would not support it. Their goal is to move to Wayland, not to support yet another thing.

Yes, it's ok for Arch to break things. As their Wiki describes, it's for "the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems." You're expected to follow Arch Linux news to watch out for things that require user intervention to avoid breakages.

It isn't Ubuntu or Fedora who try to make a system accessible to everyone.

It’s not surprising you ran into issues.

KDE’s Wayland session sucked 3 years ago, it only started becoming usable for me with 5.27. Before, Plasmashell would commonly crash.

Both have improved quite a bit since 2022. Though Gnome Wayland has always been pretty stable, just lacking some features.

Updated the title

But you don't need a status icon to run in the background.

If Firefox wanted to, they could make Firefox continue running in the background. They could even app a system tray entry for Firefox to access recently visited sites or favorite sites, like what Steam does.

This paradigm is actually the norm on MacOS. When you X out of an app, it doesn't actually close. It will just have no open windows but stay open on your dock.

All those same options are available by right clicking on the app. Though thinking some more, the status icon being dynamic does give it some extra flexibility, I think it can show recently launched games. Still, does that mean Firefox should get a status icon so that you can access recently opened sites? Should your file manager?