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What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 204 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Firefox. I hate how inflexible other browser are.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Speaking of which, user scripts. So useful at un-enshittifying the web. Or just personalizing it to scratch those little design itches that annoy you.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

any good ones you can recommend?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eg. I use this for facebook

https://github.com/zbluebugz/facebook-clean-my-feeds

Or eg. for BandCamp I wrote a script that hides the play progress bar so that I can actually focus on the music instead of how many seconds of music there are left.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

oh nice -- for the second one, you can also use UBO's eyedropper tool to hide a component by CSS selector

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact, that you can install plugins on a mobile browser
head blown gif

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Kiwi Browser is Android Chrome with desktop extension compatibility.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firefox > Chrome

Honestly. I use it at home but atm too lazy to move everything again at work. :|

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm referring to Android versions. No extensions allowed on Android Chrome, but Kiwi does. Android Firefox allows some small number of extensions, but IceRaven allows many more.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Others browsers, plural?

I guess Lynx exists...

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried out LibreWolf? By default its a bit hard to use since it doesnt save passwords or history or cookies or anything, but you can turn all that on. Its a fork of firefox meant to be more privacy focused. You can still use your firefox account and everything im pretty sure.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

Use IceRaven for Firefox with full extension compatibility.