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Author: Olaf Meeuwissen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] browsers
Hi,

Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 06:43:09PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> Firefox is quite ticking me off.
>> It has this penchant for NOT remembering the previous session even
>> when the click box has been 'enabled'.
>
> Firefox aways remebers my last session.
> I'm using firefox-est in chimaera.


Same experience as Hendrik with firefox-esr on beowulf and daedalus.

>> I am quite uncomfortable with ms googly's desire to know everything
>> about me but maybe I would use chromium IF I can stop the trackers. In
>> FF I use ublockorigin and privacy badger.


You can use webext-privacy-badger with chromium. There's also a
webext-ublock-origin-chromium package.

# I checked on daedalus only but expect this to be available for
# chimaera as well. They are available for Debian's bullseye.

>> Someone who is using chromium - - - - is it possible to harden
>> chromium?


Check out the various webext-* packages.
There's also ungoogled-chromium

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

>> Please - - - I'm quite frustrated with Firefox.
>>
>> (I've also got Vivaldi, Opera and Falkon available.
>> Find that all the other browsers except firefox-esr expect one to
>> update almost daily - - - sorry I find that that kind of behavior is
>> usually a waste of my time!)


Hope this helps,
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