@brucelawson Sigh. This is going to make firing up a Windows VM for browser testing even more tedious.
It's bad enough that it's essentially impossible to test Safari in a VM in Linux without giving macOS a separate graphics card and monitor.
@emu : given a domain name (*) for a website with an APPARENT owner, DV certs do not provide ANY security because users have no reasonable way to determine whether said domain name DOES NOT belong to the apparent owner.
Phishing is wreaking havoc on the internet. There are lots of people like you who DO NOT provide ANY solutions.
(*) In some message (email, SMS, chatapp, DM, ...), found by Googling, out of a QR-code, in a paper letter or on social media.
A DV cert may be fine for your home NAS, but not for your bank. Unfortunately big tech does not want users to see the difference between a fake and a real bank (or any other critical website) in their browsers.
A smarter VPN experience: Introducing the Mozilla VPN extension for Windows.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/mozilla-vpn-for-firefox/
Whelp, I just lost all my tabs in all my workspaces except for one in @zenbrowser. And looking through their issue tracker, it seem that similar things are pretty normal.
Just a heads up. I would maybe not use it too much, or recommend it to people, before these issues have been closed: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20lost%20tabs
Today we're releasing WEBCAT, a set of open-source tools that enables tamper-proof web applications.
This is a major milestone on the path to the next generation of SecureDrop, to provide trustworthy browser-based encryption.
https://securedrop.org/news/introducing-webcat-web-based-code-assurance-and-transparency/
A must read for web developers: "Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load?" https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/hard-page-load/ #webdev #webdevelopment #spa #ux #browsers
@FediFollows welcome to the world @iFixit! Know you from my @restartproject days, and thought of you again yesterday, how timely: do you have any recommendations for adapting older hardware to the requirements of today's internet, namely: supported #browsers. Got all my #addons disabled yesterday on #Firefox, as my version of Mac (10.11) is beyond unsupported. Issues with Chrome too.
Plotting browser support data in a catalog shows the evolution of the web platform in terms of number and availability of features.
The @w3c WebDX #CommunityGroup has completed a first nearly complete catalog of web features targeted at web #developers, along with support data across main #browsers. The catalog already powers @mdn, Can I use, and is now being integrated in tools and libraries.
https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/first-catalog-of-web-features-completed-by-the-webdx-community-group/
Feedback welcome! https://github.com/web-platform-dx/web-features
A UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds that the Apple-Google duopoly is 'anti-innovation'.
A UK competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are "holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growth.
Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://mozillapetition.com/
Just so you don't only hear me complaining about @zenbrowser: This week I discovered Alt-Click, which opens the target link an in-page frame (or whatever you call it) - works on any link, as far as I can tell, extremely practical in many use cases, especially the kind where you'd otherwise either open links in new tabs, or have to keep going back & forth 
A list of search results is a good example & yes, of course I type Grace Hopper as an example search 
Multitasking level: expert. Have you ever tiled multiple tabs to compare things side by side, or are you still tab-hopping? 
Non-Gecko (Firefox), non-Blink (Chromium) and non-Webkit (Safari) browsers:
Servo (browser engine)
https://servo.org/
Ladybird
https://ladybird.org/
They don't seem ready for use yet though.
Friday pro tip: If you don’t check your emails, they don’t exist until Monday. 
@ai6yr Don’t mean to hijack the thread, about search engines, but seems the same goes for browsers.
Many people recommend Vivaldi. A blog post they created just a couple months ago says Vivaldi won’t use ai, but if you look at their new Translate Feature, it’s run by ai. Did they do an about-face? Or am I misunderstanding? Is it a feature you can just turn off? https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/ Not finding many people talking about this.
Ensh**tification
#searchengines #browsers
Pinned tabs = commitment. What’s one tab that has earned a permanent spot in your browser? 
Alright, trying to leave both Chrome and Firefox at the same time is difficult, especially because I always use multiple browsers at the same time (to separate accounts for this or that without having to switch accounts constantly). My current browser number three is Opera and so far, I'm not touching it (we'll see in the future).
My questions are basically: are LibreWolf and Vivaldi viable replacements as main browsers?
My main concerns are whether LibreWolf is mature enough and if both allow syncing between different devices (as I regularly use three computers).
Any constructive feedback is welcome.
(suggesting me to use that another browser I haven't mentioning without explaining why in detail is not constructive feedback, thank you)
#internet #browsers #webbrowser #Chrome #Firefox #LibreWolf #Vivaldi
