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Damn, that looks absurdly ugly and even more like a foreign object on the desktop.
I hope this usability nightmare can be completely disabled or toned down so the browser looks like a native program compared to the rest of my programs.
No, get a ladder.
Not-wired connections are always and without exception a workaround for devises where it is impossible or impractical to use a wired connection with.
For English to German I don’t need machine translations, but yes: English to German translations are even more catastrophic. I sometimes translate from Polish. But I also tried some other languages … None of them produced results I’d consider good by modern standards.
Translating something to English is slightly better, but if THIS is the best we can have right now, then the best we can have right now isn’t even close to what we COULD have right now (with the right training data and resources).
I expect there’s a project you can join
I did a quick research that took longer than I wanted it to take, and the Mozilla Corporation is really good in hiding anything even remotely related to how the translations work and what the community can do.
These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.
That’s my point. All of those stupid modern things do not solve my issue of just double-clicking a local ttf file in my file manager to see some text rendered in that font. That is literally all I want to do.
The fact that you’re asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK
I don’t really care what graphics toolkit is used. I just don’t want something that is heavily interconnected with any type of desktop environment due to not wanting to install a metric shit-ton of dependencies 😉
The USA are a circus only existing to entertain the rest of the world.
Have we just become numb to ads?
Online I use multiple browser extensions and settings to avoid showing ads. In the offline world there is no way to avoid them but I think I pretty much can ignore them.
I also intentionally do not buy anything I remember seeing an ad for.
Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.
They should make it a requestable permission.
Please go see a doctor if you think you have skin cancer.
I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.
It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.
Getting a burner phone and account and only tun it on when you want to check the messages is a good start. Do not use any of your real information.
When I left FB a decade ago they didn’t force a phone number for the messenger, thy basically just requested all possible permissions.
I am so glad that I’m using an adblocker that filters out 90% of the crap. The other 10% of the crap are killed by cookie whitelist and Javascript whitelist.
If the translations would be any good, yes.
because all the other browsers have integrated AI
This is one of the reasons I started using Firefox again.
In no particular order
about:config--app parameter)Files on your own hardware are equally good as physical media.
Heavy tweaking of Firefox UI (fortunately
userChrome.cssanduser.jsare still available, even if hidden in undocumentedabout:configoptions), heavy tweaking of labwc, using a custom labwc theme, tweaked GTK theme.Window resized to get it all in one readable screenshot.