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The configuration flags are a weird hit-or-miss project to figure out for chromium/chrome. I mostly look at what the brave browser does in terms of command line flags to suppress various junk. (Brave is based on chromium). Much easier in Firefox with about:config at suppressing junk.

What exactly are those strengths in recent times? Back in the day, I thought the primary strength of Mozilla was its provenance did not include Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In those days, IE was a giant security hole.

(With all that being said). In my experience, I have found that folks who do computer programming/development primarily as a contractor or 9-to-5 job, are easier to deal with. In contrast, the hardcore types who are willing to do programming / development for days on end without sleep and...

You know the answer to all this. It doesn't matter if these developers are complete dolts. YOU have to be the person calling the shots with veto power in the decisions. If YOU do not have the power + veto in such design decisions, then it doesn't matter what you, I or anyone else says or...

The Aris t2 suite has a fix for that. It is in the files: tabs_below_navigation_toolbar_fx89 tabs_below_navigation_toolbar_fx74 https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/tree/master/classic/css/tabs You might also have to disable the new proton interface in about:config by setting...

Heh. Firefox changed the layout in the beta version 89.

Even with google or other search engines, I always forced myself to type out the actual search engine's address by hand into the url bar, and not use the "search" specific boxes built into firefox.

For the longest time, I always had a blank opening page for my default browser configurations. Back in the day, my first browsers had the Infoseek search engine as the default page. It got kinda annoying, when I preferred to use the Altavista search engine instead. Since then, I rather just...

(More generally). Fortunately enough folks with coding proficiency skills, actually cared enough to do their own fork without the malicious stuff.

https://lifehacker.com/ditch-the-great-suspender-before-it-becomes-a-security-1845989664 https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/09/we-no-longer-recommend-the-chrome-extension-the-great-suspender-here-is-why/

I don't really subscribe to a "one size fits all" mindset, when it comes to web browsers.

I try out various different browsers, to get a feel for what they do or don't do. Though my primary browser is still Firefox (FF), largely because they're relatively current and fast about fixing security holes. For example, I use FF for online shopping type stuff and a lot of general stuff...

Giving Palemoon a shot again, with the eMatrix extension. When uMatrix stopped being actively updated by the original author, somebody else forked it off as eMatrix specficially for Palemoon.

Finally dumped the https-everywhere addon. The current stable version of Firefox (83.0) now has built-in the same function as how I used https-everywhere.

Hmmm ....... The United States Department of Justice antitrust division possibly targeting Chrome to be divested in a (hypothetical) Google breakup. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/10/feds-may-target-googles-chrome-browser-for-breakup-428468...

If there is any attempt to "close source" chromium, most likely the final open source version will be forked. So unless google is about to "buy out" or hiring ALL those chromium programmers as official google employees, there isn't much they can do about non-google programmers defecting to a...

Hmmmm ..... uMatrix development going inactive. https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-ended/

From an historical perspective, there have been precedents of an open source project being forked with many of the developers defecting to the fork. The biggest and fastest one I can think of offhand which has been documented, is the downfall of XFree86...

I have to wonder what has happened to all the experienced C programmers over the past 20+ years. The few assignments/contracts I got over the years doing C, it seems like the previous programmers didn't know how to deal with pointers properly. (Basically I was unknowingly hired to clean up...

Ironically, the extreme hardcore geeky/nerdy types completely eschew Linux nowdays. Especially if they also have a paranoia mindset. For such hardcore "arrogant and pretentious" folks with a paranoia/persecution complex, their operating system of choice is OpenBSD. Perhaps not surprisingly...

Basically hardcore nerdy/geeky types completely misread and/or were willfully ignorant of the notion that the gui is EVERYTHING for Joe Sixpack and Jane Q Public. (ie. Bill Gates and earlier Steve Jobs understood this).

In a more general sense, this is probably why Linux was largely an utter failure on the desktop. In spite of the herculean efforts of the folks managing the various gui setups on Linux (or the *BSDs), back in the day the programmers never quite understood what exactly appealed to Joe Sixpack...

This is how proper "professional" computer programing should be done. For the hardcore folks, this "professional" manner of doing things is completely beneath them. (ie. Basically what Howie @BobO'Link here has been describing as "arrogant and pretentious" many times previously in this thread).

(For context). For such individuals, D&D has two (or more) different unrelated meanings for which they were hardcore into in all applicable cases. :)

D&D wasn't hardcore enough for such individuals! ;) They were into Rolemaster and other more complicated systems.

(ie. Everyone has their "price point" for which they can be "bought" by the dark side).

It would have taken a "fearless leader" with a lot of cash, to make a gui system actually viable. Basically the people with the "mad skillz" who had the technical proficiency to designed and build a huge system like mswindoze or macs, had to be "bought" at high cost with a veto hammer over...

(Elaborating more details). Back in the day, the hardcore computer programmer types I knew in person, were almost always the type of individuals who were into finding the most indecipherable ways of doing things in a very compact "elegant" manner (as paradoxical this may sound). This meant...

Other than the history dropdown arrow still missing, and the font of "Search with Google or enter address" inside the url bar looking slightly different.

/* REMOVE MEGABAR START * VERSION 1.0.3 * CODE AT: http://userchrome.wesleybranton.com/megabar * RELEASE NOTES: http://userchrome.wesleybranton.com/notes/megabar */ @-moz-document url(chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml) { /* DISABLE EXPANDING START */...