Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested
Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”.
Google’s new browser-based tracking functionality available via their “Topics API” has sparked numerous concerns recently, including fear that the heightened communication of web browser history could lead to “fingerprinting attacks” which could be used to track users across devices by profiling recent web history.
When prompted with this issue, Google started their short-term solution is to have web developers who enroll in the new Topics API platform take pledge that they will not abuse the new tool, whatever that means.
Daily reminder that Firefox is customizable to the point of removing Mozilla’s telemetry and making it look and feel almost like Chromium. And no, de-Googled Chromium probably isn’t enough because preliminary code for implementing WEI has been pushed upstream (basically they added the code which makes it possible for WEI to be implemented, strongly suggesting they’re intending to actually implement it upstream and not in Chrome)
Another vote for Firefox. Just switched over from chromium based, and i could easily port over all my info and bookmarks and shit, and it feels great to not support a monopoly
Do you have any tips or articles or anything you could share or recommend to make Firefox more like Chromium? I’m really struggling with Firefox glitching and hanging and having lots of issues and have for years but at this point that’s better than the nonsense Google is pulling I guess.
The key search term is “userChrome” (userChrome.css and userChrome.js) and XUL, which is the HTML-like language FF uses to define its chrome. “Chrome” is a term that predates Google’s browser, referring to the interface surrounding the displayed web content and Firefox still uses that internally.
Right now mine is pretty minimal, but there’s a lot you can change. Essentially, the interface is a kind of HTML page which can use the same features as normal HTML and can even run custom JavaScript. Also look into BetterFox for how to remove Mozilla’s own telemetry and bloat.
My userChrome.css for reference;
spoiler
/* Move findbar to the top */
.browserContainer > findbar {
-moz-box-ordinal-group:0 !important; /* for 112 and older */
order: -1 !important; /* for 113 and newer */
border-top: none !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
}
/* Remove "Open All In Tabs" button in bookmarks folders */
#PlacesToolbarItems .openintabs-menuitem,
#placesContext>menuitem[id="placesContext_openContainer:tabs"],
#placesContext>menuitem[id="placesContext_openContainer:tabs"]:not([hidden])+menuitem+#placesContext_openSeparator {
visibility: collapse !important;
}
/* Tabs are attached on the bottom */
.tab-background {
border-radius: var(--tab-border-radius) var(--tab-border-radius) 0 0 !important;
margin-top: 1px !important;
margin-bottom: 0 !important;
padding-bottom: 31px !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab[multiselected=true]:not([selected=true]) .tab-background {
border-radius: var(--tab-border-radius) !important;
margin-top: 2px !important;
margin-bottom: 1px !important;
padding-bottom: 29px !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab[selected=true] .tab-background ,
.tabbrowser-tab[multiselected=true] .tab-background {
background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor) !important;
background-image: var(--toolbar-bgimage) !important;
}
I found this repo which is supposed to apply Chromium styles in line with Google’s Material Design guidelines.
Here’s an article I found with some simple tweaks.
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Daily reminder that Firefox is customizable to the point of removing Mozilla’s telemetry and making it look and feel almost like Chromium. And no, de-Googled Chromium probably isn’t enough because preliminary code for implementing WEI has been pushed upstream (basically they added the code which makes it possible for WEI to be implemented, strongly suggesting they’re intending to actually implement it upstream and not in Chrome)
Another vote for Firefox. Just switched over from chromium based, and i could easily port over all my info and bookmarks and shit, and it feels great to not support a monopoly
Do you have any tips or articles or anything you could share or recommend to make Firefox more like Chromium? I’m really struggling with Firefox glitching and hanging and having lots of issues and have for years but at this point that’s better than the nonsense Google is pulling I guess.
The key search term is “userChrome” (userChrome.css and userChrome.js) and XUL, which is the HTML-like language FF uses to define its chrome. “Chrome” is a term that predates Google’s browser, referring to the interface surrounding the displayed web content and Firefox still uses that internally.
Right now mine is pretty minimal, but there’s a lot you can change. Essentially, the interface is a kind of HTML page which can use the same features as normal HTML and can even run custom JavaScript. Also look into BetterFox for how to remove Mozilla’s own telemetry and bloat.
My userChrome.css for reference;
spoiler
I found this repo which is supposed to apply Chromium styles in line with Google’s Material Design guidelines.
Here’s an article I found with some simple tweaks.
@mooncabbage @ConsciousCode
Try #Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is based on Chromium.
And has been far less polished than Firefox in my experience
So degoogled chromium will have WEI? WTF! Deleting it now.