The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
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FOSS NEWS
Proton Mail gets Newsletter view to manage all email subscriptions in one place:
https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-newsletters
(That's really cool. Now we can tell normies that Proton Mail has this feature and Gmail doesn't lol)
Proton Pass adds 14 new entry types, option to create custom types:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/proton-pass-goes-beyond-passwords-and-credit-cards-with-customizable-item-storage/
(Really tempting feature, but personally I would advise against storing every piece of sensitive data in one central database in the cloud. Proton can get hacked any time, like any other company, and also the new Swiss law can force them to hand over all that personal data in plain text, so you can mess up your privacy really badly. I'm not pointing fingers at Proton, but I think this update wasn't quite a good idea, it puts too much responsibility on them.)
Firefox 140 ESR released with unload tab feature, support for adding custom search engines in Search settings, support for keeping more or fewer pinned vertical tabs in view, "Select All" option for bookmarks on Android:
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new
Firefox 141 beta is available with less memory usage on Linux, ability to drag a tab to the pinned tabs tray and drag it out to unpin it, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now
Mozilla discontinues DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued
(GNOME: *drops a feature every few releases*
Mozilla: Hold my beer. *drops a service each week*)
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Windows: Microsoft blockiert Google Chrome mittels Schutzfunktion - Golem.de
https://www.golem.de/news/windows-schutzfunktion-von-microsoft-blockiert-google-chrome-2506-197357.html #Microsoft #Windows #Google #Webbrowser #Browser #Chrome
Have you ever taken a detour inside a Web Panel?
The Home button has your back. One click and you're right where you started.
Right now it feels like Dia is just a nice Chromium wrapper
Hopefully they can do something really interesting with it, they had a great idea with Arc, I hope we can get something really special here
I continue to keep in mind what Josh said: "40% of people are using chat in Dia" along with what @matt said: "Well that means 60% of people aren't"
I haven't had a ton of time with the browser, but I'm not finding much value here
»Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine:
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.«
Nutzt dies wer von euch schon und wie ist es zum nutzen? Wird dies evt auch von @librewolf übernomen und sind KI Suchmaschinen wirklich besser als bisherige? Ich bin skeptisch hatte dies aber noch nie genutzt.
Google Chrome: So soll der Browser Nutzern Millionen Stunden Zeit einsparen - t3n – digital pioneers
https://t3n.de/news/google-chrome-so-soll-der-browser-nutzern-millionen-stunden-zeit-einsparen-1691619/ #Webbrowser #Browser #Chrome
idc it's a good browser
#ArcBrowser #WebBrowser #Apps #Productivity #Technology