Linux

48352 readers

769 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

No web browser offers a good out of the box experience. (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by the_crab_man to c/[email protected]

83 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.
Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.
Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn't be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] slamphear 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Qutebrowser has great, sensible defaults with no telemetry. 😊

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

Can confirm, I only configured some visual changes, font, minimal font size and alike.

Only problem I have with it is, an increasing number of webpages tell me, my browser is outdated and rarely some pages don't work correctly.

I am thinking of moving to Epiphany (gnome-web) some day, but I may start missing the vim-like interaction with qutebrowser.

[–] slamphear 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you updated Qutebrowser recently? It was running a pretty ancient version of Chromium under the hood before the 3.0 release (2 weeks ago), but it’s up-to-date now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thx for the reminder; I need to do that update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you might be able to fix webpages telling you you're outdated by changing your useragent string.