Buh-bye Firefox, headed back to Brave I guess.
Discussion
What happened?
they removed the 'send do not track request' feature, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was somewhat of a default when I went to NixOS a while ago, so went with it. Always preferred Brave anyway--for all its faults.
Sidebar tabs
and searchable tabs 🤙
You ever ask yourself why tab, bookmark and history search doesn't the search through the content of the pages themselves?
yes, that should be a thing. I would like that as an option.
Building it!
(I don't think we're conducting the survey anymore, sorry)
I suppose (given Recall, and AE's comment) it might need to be said: I would only want this if it was a local-only data store, locked down tight, *nothing* leaves Ft. Knox--no one's business but mine...etc. But this is NOSTR so that probably should go without saying... 😉
Absolutely.
Ultra surveillance, but you are the NSA and you are your mark.
(Also you could always temporarily disable the tracking when you're doing the weirdest of weird)
You really want your browser to make web requests to fetch ALL of your bookmarks, history, sleeping tabs whenever you start a search?
Seems wasteful & confusing to me
was thinking more like grepping a text-only local cache or something -- but yeah, wouldn't want all that. make page searches optional, local, could be handy, I think...
Yes. I want to fill test search over everything I've ever seen before it hits a search engine.
It would be a bummer to serve up false positives whenever the live page happens to change. Consider fulltext searching any nostr web client, or X, how would it work?
Sounds a lot like Windows 11 Recall... 🤷♂️
They're not false positives, they're positive positives. It's something you've seen before, you should be able to find it again, live page notwithstanding.
like the wayback machine, local to you and based on your activity.
I'm not saying there wouldn't **also** be regular live search engine results. Both
I think you need cloud & AI (or an on prem, very beefy server) to effectively help a person with a passive mind map curate the huge amount of web text you've downloaded in the past n minutes or months or ever.
Microsoft is way ahead of this.
Sure, yea. Personal, private cloud. Personal, private AI. On prem or off, makes no difference to the software. Sounds good 🤗
Microsoft may be way ahead, but it is contra their business plan and profit model to allow you to have perfect data privacy, ability to self-host, and ease of exit. So they will always offer an inferior product (for those who care about these features)
brave sync stuff with mnemonics is cool
back when I allowed ads in my house, I didn't mind the free BAT (that I immediately converted to sats) either
mulvad browser may be up your alley
it's built on firefox, tried it, not bad but I'm out - don't need browser based vpn, got it network-wide from OpenWrt router anyway, and wg-quick when I'm away from home (road warrior setup is next on the list)
Ungoogled Chromium
hm, old school, maybe...
wouldn't mind if grapheneos' Vanadium was an option for the linux box
I like Brave just fine but this is another option if you don't want something built off the Firefox code.
Yes, I do like Vanadium.
I've run that. It's rough. You have to manually install extensions.