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> They don't have it to this date. Are you sure? I distinctively remember them announcing it and being promptly mocked by people asking when was the date they were going to kill it. Did they abandon the desktop version before a stable release? https://techdows.com/2022/08/chrome-desktop-rss-follow-sites.html

Im not sure about what you mean with distracting zoom effect. Anyways, it is possible to go back to the old "awesomebar" [1]. 1. Visit about:config 2. Find and change the value of following preferences to false browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus browser.urlbar.update1 browser.urlbar.update1.interventions browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips [1] https://techdows.com/2019/10/mozilla-enables-megabar-design-for-addres…

One of my favourite bits of IE was its high contrast support, which no other browsers had. It actually modified the styles of individual elements (rather than using a global color filter overlay like Chrome), so it performed really well, matched the OS high contrast theme, and could also be adjusted by developers with prefixed media query. I was glad to hear that Microsoft will be adding it to the new Edge[0]. You can read about how it works in this excellent explainer[1]. [0] https://techdows.com/2019/03/chrome-to-get-native-caret-browsing-and-h… [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/master/Accessib…

It will never be ported fully. It's one of those extensions that dived so deep into Firefox's source code that Mozilla changing things in the source code caused it to break a lot of the times. Mozilla categorically doesn't want that anymore, as it will inevitably cause some Mozilla devs to try to not break those extensions and therefore not do things such as code refactoring. The sort of stuff that you can ignore in the short-term in order to not break extensions, but which causes huge problems in the long run. The CTR dev has however created a userChrome.css file, which you can use to get at least the visual changes: http://techdows.com/2017/09/classic-theme-restorer-userchrome-css-modi…

Here is a brief (and compared to the german sources not so great) english language version of what happened: http://techdows.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-add-on-removed.html

I've already seen ads like those, some even pushing their political stuff. https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chrome-dismiss-new-tab…

Which version did they remove the cool screenshot feature? seems like they just added it.... (you could easily take a screenshot of the whole page) Edit: Looks like Firefox 88 only moved the feature: https://techdows.com/2021/03/firefox-88-removes-screenshot-option-from… I wonder what useless/detrimental move they made this time I remember when they removed the right-click View Image not long ago... luckily there's an add-on that can bring back this basic feature.

The "first example"[1] now 404s. Weird. So can't actually see the demo the OP wanted to demo.... [1]: https://techdows.com/2015/02/enable-test-reader-mode-firefox-nightly.h…

Yeah, it looks admittedly pointless. I guess I just don't care much, it's just not a part of the browser that draws my attention a lot. I did find a compact mode: https://techdows.com/2021/04/how-to-enable-compact-density-option-in-f… - which works and makes things less padded, but the "not supported" but sure sounds ominous.

> And who likes oversaturated colors? What user rage? I regret to inform you... https://techdows.com/2020/07/chrome-84-force-color-profile-srgb.html https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/930egn/set_force_color_profil… https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/50631110/force-color-profile-… https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1105566

Take a look at: https://techdows.com/2020/04/enable-dynamic-first-party-isolation-fire…

> attempt to set itself as the default app for numerous functions That's false, if you install any new browser -- Chrome, Opera, Firefox -- the next time you open a URL or HTML file, Windows will ask you if you still want to use your existing default browser or change it. This is done because apps can no longer set the default browser themselves and must ask the user to do it. Regardless, your existing default browser is still the top choice, clearly spaced from the rest: https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/popup-dialog-on-Window… (in this example, Firefox Nightly was recently installed, causing the prompt) Pinning itself to your taskbar is debatable because it effectively replaced Edge, which comes pinned to taskbar out of the box.

> Modern browsers are pretty secure nowadays. Just few examples of "pretty secure modern browsers nowadays".[0,1] [0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=1&q=label%3AR… [1] https://techdows.com/2020/05/mozilla-halts-firefox-76-rollout-and-prep…

in reality Chrome will(used to last time I looked into this) use DoH/hardcoded Google dns server when for example queried domain doesnt have A record. https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/a23071/how_private_is… https://techdows.com/2018/12/vivaldi-2-2-lets-you-disable-google-dns-s…

You can either use the flag --save-page-as-mhtml from CLI [1] or a library such as puppeteer. [1] https://techdows.com/2019/06/google-removes-save-page-as-mhtml-flag-fr… [2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

It definitely does it. I'll be looking in to some issue (because that's 90% of using Linux on a device) and suddenly I won't be able to open any new tabs until I restart the browser. https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/visit-about-restartreq…

Skia is now the default on firefox/windows when direct2d isn't available. http://techdows.com/2016/10/firefox-52-skia-enabled-by-default-on-wind… What does that actually means in practice? I'm guessing the only time you actually get skia is when running in a pretty old hypervisor environment or on a server/BMC without hardware acceleration. Which IMHO, having your application _LOOK_ different depending on hardware acceleration capabilities is sorta stupid.

I used an old version chrome to print the page (I have kept some vintage softwares for old times' sake). That chrome version still has the "simplify page" option on its print preview ...newer versions of chrome have removed that option (perhaps the dev team thought that "revolution" would give its users more "freedom"), as it has been reported here, http://techdows.com/2016/09/chrome-53-simplify-page-printing-option-re… and complained here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12647276

Previously Chrome did not take computer DPI settings into account. Now it scales the UI with DPI settings. I found my laptop was at 125% scaling without me knowing. http://techdows.com/2016/10/fix-chrome-54-looks-zoomed-in.html

>The pole is to keep that cluttered ribbon interface away from my relatively clean Explorer windows The ribbon is minimized by default. What's cluttered about this more than Windows 7? http://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/expand-the-ribbon-using…

Someone needs to install it and execute the process described in this article http://techdows.com/2012/03/windows-8-beta-expiry-date.html to figure it out.

FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040. I have just learned the Firefox 93 added support XFA - https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html . So it would appear there are free software solutions to XFA forms. Just because something doesn't seem far-fetched to you, doesn't mean most people will regard it as far-fetched. Many people all sorts of "sectarian objections" - far more than there are SovCits or other tax protesters. Stallman has never come across as a tax protester. Ergo, I think it's far-fetched that "sectarian objections" is strongly associated with tax protests. Further, at https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html we can read Stallman opinine that we need to "return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll" by making taxation more progressive. At https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."

> On Windows, third-party modules can now be blocked from injecting themselves into Firefox, which can be helpful if they are causing crashes or other undesirable behavior. about:third-party : ( https://techdows.com/2023/02/firefox-block-third-party-modules.html ) Nevertheless, some third-party developers seek to modify the browser in ways beyond what is possible with a browser extension and resort to “hooking” the browser, effectively injecting third-party executable code modules into Firefox processes. Security software such as anti-virus products on Windows are the most prevalent examples. ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/third-party-software-injection/ ) about:plugins : ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxPlugins ) With Firefox 53, the ability to restore NPAPI plugin support will be removed completely. ( https://winaero.com/firefox-drops-all-npapi-plugins-except-flash/ )

>Did you try to contribute to Chromium and Firefox to speed up fixing the Logjam issue? No. The issue isn't that it's (so) hard to fix; the fix in 39 has been out for a while, they just didn't want to release it for the stable release, which means few people got it. (In fact, some distros apparently fixed their versions earlier [1]). On Firefox, you could manually fix it in 2 minutes [2] I'm not familiar with the codebases, so it would take me longer to make a patch, but it really should not take 2 months to release to stable a fix that affected 8.4% [3] of popular websites, especially for a company like Google. The tinfoil hat in me says certain things about this, considering that logjam was likely known by the NSA, but then again I can't prove anything. I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more talk about this, actually. A major security hole going unfixed for months after public disclosure should have had more chatter. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9702061 [2] http://techdows.com/2015/05/how-to-make-firefox-browser-safe-against-l… [3] https://weakdh.org/

Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the issue. Many other sources reported it though[3][4][5]. If you are using WOT in either Firefox or Chromium/Chrome you can just remove it without replacing it with anything. Both browsers cover that for you with Google's Safe Browsing[6][7]. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/wot-safe-browsing-tool/ [2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wot-web-of-trust-website [3]: http://techdows.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-add-on-removed.html (4/11/2016) [4]: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/05/mozilla-and-google-remove-wot-extensi… (5/11/2016) [5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5bgnyr/weboftrust_removed_from_… (6/11/2016) [6]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing [7]: https://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/