Greetings.

Kevin Chadwick via Dng - 17.04.26, 10:43:09 CEST:
> > For anyone getting started today, I recommend the brave
> > browser, which blocks youtube ads.
>
> I love Vivaldi which also has that built in and it's profile manager is
> ace.

Profile manager is a sore spot in Firefox. The old one kind of works, but
is not all that accessible. And the new one is crap. Instead of just
adding a menu entry to switch profiles using the old manager, they
implemented a new one that does not even remember the last profile I used.
And completely ignores any profiles created with the old one. It is
complete nonsense if you ask me.

However I am reluctant with browsers like Vivaldi and Brave and so on.

I tried Zen browser once, Firefox-based, but it was not even compatible
enough to run some of the Firefox extensions I usually used.

For Firefox there are really some very nice extensions in addition to
full-blown capable uBlock Origin. Like Temporary Containers which is a gem
and a gift. Whenever I log into multiple different Proxmox VE clusters and
sometimes single nodes in one of my courses it shows. Not possible with
the usual modern standard browser. Thanks for this one. Every browser
should work like this by default. Clear cookie separation between tabs in
different containers. Or the official Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
Both even work together.

Thing is: I need time to learn a new browser. Maybe there are other ways
to achieve what I achieve by using a carefully selected set of extensions
in my Firefox setups. But I would easily need several hours if not one or
two days to find out and configure everything to my liking.

Browsers nowadays are monsters. They are operating systems in themselves.
Unfortunately gone are the days of easy browsers like KHTML based
Konqueror. KHTML was a gem, but basically gone by now. It is still be base
of the engine Apple uses in Safari.

You cannot simply develop a browser anymore. And the simple reason for
this is: The modern web is a complete, utter and total commercial crap. It
is so broken it is not even funny anymore. With very rare exceptions.

It is visible with AmigaOS based browsers like still developed IBrowse.
IBrowse is a gem. But it can't do many modern websites anymore. Granted a
browser should support CSS by now and IBrowse doesn't. But it is not only
that. It is all this total and utter JavaScript crap on modern websites.
Many modern websites are proprietary software through the backdoor.

Best,
--
Martin