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How long will Firefox survive, given market share and likely demise of main income source: Google Search (via Thom – Exquisite.social)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/11

Interesting take of which I was subconsciously aware for a while as well: [Wayback/Archive] Thom :linux: :kde: :systemd:: “My concerns about the future o…” – Exquisite.social

My concerns [www.osnews.com] about the future of Firefox keep becoming reality [www.osnews.com] and yet nobody who relies on Firefox – Canonical, Fedora, KDE, GNOME, etc. – seem to give a shit.

Y’all realise Mozilla is about to lose 80% of its revenue, right? And y’all do understand what this will mean for Firefox, right? Why aren’t you taking any steps or making any plans to prepare for what this will inevitably mean for the most important and crucial desktop Linux application?

I feel like Kassandra [en.wikipedia.org] over here.

It is not a Desktop Linux problem alone: it is a Firefox problem at heart which will also (and in much larger numbers) affect other platforms as it also means one less browser engine: the Gecko browser engine used by Firefox and other browsers highly depends on Mozilla funding.

Given the long lasting keyboard productivity problems in Firefox on MacOS and Windows (even without any extensions installed), I don’t think that my frequency of Firefox usage will increase beyond occasional use.

A few examples hampering power usage of Firefox:

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Posted in Development, Firefox, Power User, Software Development, Web Browsers, Windows Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | Leave a Comment »

Newer WordPress bookmarklets for navigating from a blog post to the classic editor, or getting the canonical url anchor of a blog post

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/08

Last year I posted about Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.

It depended on HighlanderComments to exist in order for getting its .connectURL which contains the canonical blog post URL (i.e. from https://wiert.me it obtains https://wiert.wordpress.com).

Nowadays HighlanderComments does not always exist, but in that case <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="https://wiert.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd"> does exist.

Its’ href value can be obtained by querying document.querySelector('link[rel="EditURI"]').href and truncate it, so I made some conditional code that first tries the HighlanderComments and defers code obtaining it from the link element I mentioned above.

I also added proper Bookmarklet wrappers so the function results don’t leak to the console or Browser (Firefox really does not like Bookmarklets without this wrapper).

javascript:(function(){
//Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments
})();

Firefox also dislikes pasting code into the development console.

Code:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab, enter:…” – Free Radical

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab…” – Free Radical

To disable Mozilla’s data grab,

  1. enter:

    about:preferences#privacy

    in the address bar.

  2. Then, scroll down to “Website Advertising Preferences” and
  3. DESELECT the option for “Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement“

--jeroen

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Google Search Location Changers for Chrome and Firefox (via Henk van Ess)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03

Very useful Web Browser extensions (which you can also use in Edge, see [Wayback/Archive] Add, turn off, or remove extensions in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support).

Via [Wayback/Archive] 𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 on X: “Sick of seeing the web just locally when using Google? Use Google Search location changer to end this problem. Chrome: … Firefox: …”

--jeroen

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Is uBlock Origin Lite an alternative to keep using Chrome with manifest V2 deprecated?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31

Having been a avid uBlock Origin user since when it came out in 2014 even before both Adblock and Adblock Plus headed over to the dark side.

I need to check out if [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin Lite is good enough now that Google is phasing out Manifest V2 (on which uBlock Origin and other ad blockers depend to provide full functionality).

When it isn’t, I might switch to Firefox or Brave as it should still support Manifest V2 as per

Firefox for instance has some drawbacks with input handling when editing WordPress posts which Chromium based web-browsers (including Brave) don’t have.

Via:

Related:

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Parameter you should add to most of your Google queries: “before:2023” (thanks Grant Gulovsen on Mastodon)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/29

[Wayback/Archive] Grant Gulovsen: “Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding “before:2023” to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.” – Mastodon

The actual source seemed to be either of these:

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Firefox shift right-click forces context menu (via Frederik Braun). It reminds me of Windows 11 using this to show the full Windows 10 context menu

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11

[Wayback/Archive] Frederik Braun �: “Annoyed that a website is doin…” – security.plumbing

Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser’s context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?

Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.

It reminded me of Windows 11 first crippling the context menu, then allowing shift right-click to show the Windows 10 context menu:

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0x48piraj/fadblock: Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/31

[Wayback/Archive] 0x48piraj/fadblock: Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

At the time of writing, it was available in these web-browser extension/addon stores:

A 404 was returned at [Wayback/Archive] https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/fadblock/ which I reported in [Wayback/Archive] Extension vanished from the Opera Addons page · Issue #15 · 0x48piraj/fadblock.

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, CSS, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Chrome (likely also Firefox/Edge/Safari): no non-global way to workaround Bookmarklets failing on GitHub raw code with “Blocked script execution…”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/18

Last year, I answered [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Bookmarklet to append a string to a URL – Stack Overflow (asked by [Wayback/Archive] Karlo Guidoni Martins, thanks!).

It is about not being able to run bookmarklets on pages hosted by for instance:

  • gist.githubusercontent.com
  • raw.githubusercontent.com

GitHub is an exception, as RAW files from these services do work fine:

At first sight, when running a Bookmarklet on those RAW GitHub served pages, you do not see an error: it just looks like the Bookmarklet does not work at all. The last part is right, but in the Chrome console you can actually see the error.

That error lead me to my answer:

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Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/27

For my link archive is the below answer that should help me a lot with unfinished bits from Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.

Goal of that post was to have some grounding and eventually find a means to build an HTML page in a new tab using a bookmarklet that I then later could post to my blog.

Assembling to HTML and putting it on the clipboard might be a lot easier and better fitting in my workflow.

So, via [Wayback/Archive] javascript copy html to clipboard – Google Search, for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Loilo for answering and [Wayback/Archive] kofifus for asking):

Below is a function that will do exactly that. I tested it with your required browsers, it works in all of them. However, IE 11 will ask for confirmation on that action.

Explanation how this works can be found below, you may interactively test the function out in this jsFiddle.

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Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSFiddle, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

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