On Linux if I have media keys on my keyboard and a media player inside of a browser (say Firefox + Jellyfin) is there any way to pass those key events to that specific browser tab, regardless of window/tab focus?
Obviously Wayland & Firefox's security models prevent this for good reason but I'm wondering if there's a way to make an exception, or maybe a media control API I can use?
I made more progress with LibreWolf last night. It tries very aggressively to protect you (which is good!) but that mean you may need to work a little harder to log into some of the sites you use.
Sync seems to have brought over my plugins and bookmarks but maybe not all my saved logins.
Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
Serious question: Is there any non Chromium based browser for macOS that runs uBlock Origin and that isn’t as limiting as LibreWolf, and not going to become AI shit like Firefox will apparently be soon?
Per ritornare ad avere un motore di ricerca che restituisce quello che realmente si cerca, senza AI, senza risultati sponsorizzati, senza manipolazione, c'è il meta-motore di ricerca open source SearXNG:
L'immagine è una rappresentazione visiva che confronta i risultati della ricerca "prima" e "ora". Sul lato sinistro, c'è un riquadro intitolato "SEARCH RESULTS:" e contenente un riquadro rettangolare viola con il testo "THE YOU WANT". Sul lato destro, c'è un riquadro intitolato "SEARCH RESULTS:" contenente: un riquadro rettangolare viola con il testo "AI NONSENSE."; quattro riquadri rettangolari viola più piccoli con il testo "SPONSORED RESULT" ciascuno; un riquadro rettangolare viola con il testo "PEOPLE ALSO ASK" seguito da tre punti; e un riquadro rettangolare viola con il testo "VIEW PRODUCTS" seguito da quattro icone. L'immagine ha un titolo scritto "GOOGLING STUFF." Il riquadro di sinistra è intitolato "..THEN" e quello di destra "..NOW".
alt-text: GOOGLING STUFF. ..THEN: SEARCH RESULTS: THE YOU WANT. ..NOW: SEARCH RESULTS: AI NONSENSE.; SPONSORED RESULT (x4); PEOPLE ALSO ASK; VIEW PRODUCTS (seguito da quattro icone).
Firefox Firefox once again re-enabled this stupid-ass RAM-hogging bullshit "use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" setting even though I keep disabling it. Stop shitting up the last decent browser goddamnit
It's sole issue is that it's still #Firefox based: we really need simpler alternatives. #NetSurf for example has really improved over years and can be compiled in a few minutes. I has a solid rendering engine written in C, but a bit too static. I'm exploring the codebase to see how much time it would take to make it react to :hover and similar #css rules.
Also no-js to me is a benefit: I disable it by default in uBlock Origin anyway.
Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.
Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious.
And
@mozilla, Firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you're partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for.
Come on guys. This #Mastodon release is garbage. It has #LibreWolf taking up 80% of the CPU. Refreshing this tab takes 2 minutes. Typing is unresponsive. Toots don't load. It doesn't work.
Since many people had concerns about Firefox drinking the AI kool aid and things like battery consumption, I recently tried Waterfox which people recommend.
I have to say it’s really nice!
Out of the box it gives you vertical tabs, the ability to group those tabs into colored folds and user profiles like Chrome has but Firefox never had. (The “container tabs” from Firefox are also there)
And of course it can use Firefox plugins.
I'm not able to see the context, but I'd like to suggest LibreWolf as an option worth review.
Like Waterfox, LibreWolf is a "spoon" of #Firefox. The key differences are that #LibreWolf is focused more aggressively on privacy and security and is expected to continue support for uBlock Origin, the real one, for the long term.
To be clear, Waterfox includes some privacy and security changes as well. However, the uBlock Origin issue might be a significant differentiator.
LibreWolf won't play videos, for me at least, on some sites, but I think that that's due to the security measures.
Viewing the PDF version of an html file (sans images) in #Zathura, my favorite keyboard-friendly #PDF reader: 157.5 MiB RAM used
Viewing the same original html file (with images) in #dillo: 40.0 MiB RAM used
in #NetSurf: 74.6 MiB
in #GnomeWeb / #Epiphany: 397.0 MiB (wow, kinda lean!!)
in #Falkon: 541.1 MiB
The same file in #luakit: 623.1 MiB RAM
in #firefox / #LibreWolf: 1.31 GiB (YEP)
I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD
I still fire up #LibreWolf (#firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.
I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD
Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product 😅 https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/
Next to each result is a small block icon which adds the domain to the filter and not 1 link of this site will reappear in your results.
Each time the result of a website is clearly #ai generated I block the whole domain. Last week I searched an issue about CNC milling and 9 out of the 10 first results on duckduckgo had been ai crap that didn't answer any questions but just rephrased a question multiple times.
Probably sysifus work but I'm feeling pretty good about making sure I'm never kicking a second time on basically fake links of fake websites.
Try it! If search engine companies can't do a good job or don't want to, I'm happy I can do it myself and stop them being able to show shit to me.
Odd/annoying problem logging on to
@mstdn
@stux using @librewolf#Librewolf (a #Firefox fork) - it won't accept my username and password. I can't remember if it ever worked, but definitely not this week.
I just tried disabling any relevant extensions and even ResistFingerPrinting in case they were interfering, but nothing helped.
It's fine in Chromium-based browsers - e.g. Edge and Vivaldi, where I had either logged off or had never logged on before.
Installed #Librewolf by adding one line in my #Nix config. Copied over my #Firefox profile directory. And that's it! I'm running Librewolf now. Let's see how this goes.
I've been on #Librewolf for almost six months now and other than the issues mentioned in the previous posts in this thread, it has been smooth sailing. I didn't even notice the latest #Firefox chat and AI related changes that people are complaining about because Librewolf disables them by default.
Since #Mozilla is trending today because of their stupid decisions regarding #Firefox, I thought I'd give another update about my moving to #Librewolf ten months ago, but sadly [happily] there is nothing to report. It's just been working rock solid. I don't see any AI things being pushed on me, just some regular security updates. No crashes, no issues, no mismanagement, no threats. It's been boring, exactly how a browser should be.