I feel exactly the same and I totally depend on Lightroom and Premiere/AE/Audition for making a living. I would _never_ install their suite outside my editing machines.
My personal Tree Style Tab record is over 600 simultaneous tabs. It ran without a hitch and it was still easy to navigate. I would never use a browser without vertical tabs in trees.
I chose Kanboard[1] for personal user because it's PHP and supports SQLite. I hate becoming an admin for these kind of apps. Also chose FreshRSS over Tiny Tiny RSS for the same reasons. Works by just uploading a directory to my shared hosting.
> They also come with all kinds of stuff many people don't want on their phones. If want current security patches (especially on older devices) and no Google Apps, preinstalled vendor apps, telemetry etc. you still have to install a custom rom. In my experience LOS is very stable too.
This. I can highly recommend https://grapheneos.org if you have a device that can run it.
Just installed. Looks like it's still in the xul/xpi era. Was hoping that this could be reasonably secure alternative to Waterfox and that I'd be able to install xul/xpi extensions. Seems not.
Care to elaborate? I still mourn the death of XUL. The extensions that really meant something are now gone or available in versions that are much worse than their predecessors.
Here's a random writeup I found after some googling. I'm pretty sure that I've recently read a better description of how and why they removed XUL, but I can't find any specific overviews that seem better than this one:
The short version is that XUL is a mozilla-specific implementation of functionality that can be accomplished with standard html5/CSS/etc., and thus using specifically XUL to handle the UI is inefficient from a developer standpoint, which can also introduce bugs, etc. as developers are forced to work on/use a technology with which they're not familiar.
XUL is being replaced with (was replaced with?) the standard HTML5 engine, which is continually being improved, updated, secured, optimized, etc. IIRC, there's no reason that an extension couldn't do what it did in XUL, so the likelihood is that the lack of those extensions isn't directly related to Mozilla removing XUL, but rather extension developers re-implementing their extensions in HTML5 for Chrome, which is a vastly more common platform for browser extensions in my experience, instead of re-implementing their extensions in HTML5 for Firefox.
> IIRC, there's no reason that an extension couldn't do what it did in XUL
XUL extensions were given full access to the XUL DOM for the entire browser, whereas WebExtensions are limited in their sandbox to known extension points rather than having full HTML DOM access to the entire browser.
Also, while WebExtensions still have access to messaging channels to websites/native code/outside applications, it is indirect (and permissions/sandbox mediated). XUL extensions' XPCOM (like Microsoft's COM) gave a much direct path both in to the HTML DOM of individual websites and outward for native platform code to be written in languages like C/C++.
(All of the above of which include additional reasons why XUL/XPCOM may be security liabilities if your goal is a secure browser: free reign of the browser DOM, website DOM, and easier access to native code.)
> there's no reason that an extension couldn't do what it did in XUL
The XUL-webextension transition resulted in a huge loss of API surface. This cost us vim keybindings, tree style tabs, the ability to modify the new tab page, and probably some other things that I'm forgetting. While they eventually added some replacements, it's still not 100% back to where it was (ex. tree style tabs now works, but can't hide the original tab bar).
It amazes me that there's not a single word about Matrix/Riot.im in this submission or the blog post itself. If you want to resist control over your communications medium, a federated system seems like a no-brainier. And yes, the E2EE is there if/when you need it.
Please tell me how you configured LeechBlock NG. I tried the delaying mode, but only works for the first visit of a domain? Once I've waited those seconds for the page to load I can mindlessly wander around for hours if I don't close the tab.
Right, I always open news front pages from a bookmark for some reason, and stories as background tabs. Each tab has its own delay-block when activated, and at some point I usually close unread tabs instead of waiting for them.
But the block repeats every few hours, and I'm pretty sure that clicking on a link within the same tab repeats the block then (maybe depends on the page). So yes, the "dosage" of how many delays you get is not very well controlled for. Still, I'm using this setup for years and it definitely does something for me.
