#browers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #browers, aggregated by home.social.
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Badwolf browser, made by @[email protected], has won me over using it as my primary browser over the past week. Simple, no frills, private, with no JS by default(easily enabled with button when you need it).
Even managed to make some quick n' dirty mods to the source for the few things I missed:
- have a home page when opening for first time
- added a key shortcut to open a new "search" tab which opens a search engine page
thanks for all your hard work on this! :blobcat_meltheart:
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LayerX: Introducing ExtensionPedia: Your Ultimate Resource to Assess and Mitigate Browser Extension Risks. “Today, LayerX proudly announces the launch of ExtensionPedia, the Browser Extension Risk Database and Knowledge Center, dedicated to analyzing the risks associated with browser extensions across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.”
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Not that incognito mode ever did much, but if you're wondering why Google ads are chasing you from that incognito mode browsing... #privacy #browers https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/01/google-changes-wording-for-incognito-browsing-in-chrome?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=Incognito_browsing_in_Chrome
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Seeing what happened this week to the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel made me realise how well we have secured in transit data, password managers, etc (LastPass was also hacked via an end user session) but we appear to have the session data left wide open on our local machines.
I see that Firefox and Edge have profile logins, but mainly to protect the login passwords. Most Chromium based browsers do have profiles, but do not even appear to have any form of login attached to them.
Surely not just the logins can be protected, and we could have 1st party and session cookie access also protected behind a profile password? Whenever you start up your browser the first time, you are prompted for the profile primary password to unlock access to passwords, extension data, and cookies? In this way, if some bad (or good) actor stole your session data (the session data would be in use and unlocked), they'd still be prompted for a password before being able to actually use it on a freshly started browser elsewhere?
Maybe this is not the best way to do it, but clearly some improvement is needed to protect against this form of data hijacking.
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Orion Browser Can Use Chrome and Firefox Extensions at the Same Time and claims to be Privacy-Focused
https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/orion-400x247.jpg If you have a Mac, iPhone, or iPad (support planned for other platforms in future) that it and you’re looking for something new from your web browser, you should check out Orion. The new browser […]
