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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by kemotep on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:07PM (#36603441)
It’s more or less ideological on my part. There being only 1 browser engine is something I would like to avoid. And unless Safari becomes available on Linux (or that Orion browser from the makers of Kagi), Firefox is the only other option. There is Librewolf and some other gecko based ones out there but other than the TOR browser, none of the others are large enough projects that I would trust with something as important as my Web Browser.

I support plenty of end users on Chrome and Edge at work and will happily oblige my wife by installing and configuring Chrome on all her devices. Firefox is what works for me and what I am comfortable using at this time. Unusable was certainly a hyperbole on my part.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by cglong on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:44PM (#36604061)
Got it, thank you for explaining! :)

I've never used Linux full-time, but from my understanding, neither GNOME Web nor Konqueror are Blink-based. Are they missing critical power user features?

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by kemotep on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:08PM (#36604531)
The lack or nonstandard support for extensions. But looking into it, I see that it looks like at least Gnome Web now can support extensions. Currently not using Gnome or KDE on my Linux install though.
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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by cglong on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:18PM (#36604714)
Not sure if this helps, but according to Wikipedia:

> Despite being a component of GNOME, Web has no dependency on GNOME components, so it can be potentially installed on any system supporting GTK and WebKitGTK.

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