You cannot select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
96 lines
6.5 KiB
HTML
96 lines
6.5 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
|
|
<html lang="en">
|
|
<head>
|
|
<title>(POST) My New Browser Setup</title>
|
|
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../images/favicon.webp">
|
|
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="../style.css">
|
|
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
|
|
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
|
|
</head>
|
|
<body>
|
|
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="../">
|
|
<pre class="main-header">
|
|
_______ _ _ _______ __ __ _______ _______ __ _
|
|
|______ | | |______ \_/ |_____| |_____| | \ |
|
|
______| |_____| | | | | | | | \_|
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</a>
|
|
<hr/>
|
|
<p><a href="../">sf.cu</a> > <a style="color:#bd93f9" href="../blog/">Blog</a> > <a style="color:#bd93f9" href=".">My New Browser Setup</a></p>
|
|
<h1>My New Browser Setup</h1>
|
|
<p style="font-size:110%">Posted on: <strong>17 March 2023</strong></p>
|
|
<p style="font-size:110%">Reading time: <strong><strong>2 min</strong>
|
|
<p>
|
|
<p style="font-size:110%"></strong>Category: <a style="color:#ff79c6" href="../blog/software/"><strong>Software</strong></a></p>
|
|
<p>I have a new browser setup on my desktop to increase my privacy and convenience. It is divided into two profiles that perform differently based on what I need to do in the moment.</p>
|
|
<h2>What is it?</h2>
|
|
<p>I use Librewolf as my browser. It is a fork of Firefox that is enhanced for privacy without heavily impacting user experience. I divided it into two profiles:</p>
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Accounts (instances in which I need to login)</li>
|
|
<li>Browsing (general website browsing)</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<p>Let me walk through how each profile is setup.</p>
|
|
<h2>Profile Setup</h2>
|
|
<p>Firstly, let me talk about common settings between both profiles.</p>
|
|
<h3>Common In Both</h3>
|
|
<p>On both profiles, I have my settings to optimize my privacy. On Firefox-based browsers, it is very easy to use these settings because most of them have little impact on convenience. I use Brave Search as my search engine and will switch to my own SearX instance when I get a good server. In terms of extensions, I have the 'uBlock Origin' extension installed setup to block JavaScript and remote fonts by default. I have the default lists along with all the others unchecked by default apart from language lists. I block every single domain from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other websites which are known for tracking. If a website breaks, I whitelist that website in particular.</p>
|
|
<h3>Accounts Profile</h3>
|
|
<p>My accounts profile is optimized to work well with day-to-day logins and important websites. I use this profile for all websites where I can login like Google or Microsoft.</p>
|
|
<p>I use the following extensions:</p>
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>
|
|
Cookie AutoDelete
|
|
<ul class="nested-list">
|
|
<li>Enabled with whitelisting to auto-delete cookies for websites which I open by accident.</li>
|
|
<li>Using extension instead of Librewolf's built-in setting because it currently does not work for me.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
Containers
|
|
<ul class="nested-list">
|
|
<li>For multiple accounts</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<h3>Browsing Profile</h3>
|
|
<p>My browsing profile runs in permanent private browsing mode so my cookies, cache and browsing history are automatically deleted when I close my browser. I use it for general web browsing like watching videos, viewing articles and more. I have most of the content I like in an RSS feed but this profile is useful for some websites which either do not have an RSS feed or I only need to use once.</p>
|
|
<p>For this profile, I use these extensions:</p>
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>
|
|
Dark Reader
|
|
<ul class="nested-list">
|
|
<li>'Invert Listed Only' mode turned on because most websites I use have dark mode turned on already.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
LibRedirect
|
|
<ul class="nested-list">
|
|
<li>To redirect common websites to their free, libre and open-source frontends.</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
Some examples are:
|
|
<ul class="nested-list">
|
|
<li>YouTube --> Invidious</li>
|
|
<li>Twitter --> Nitter</li>
|
|
<li>Reddit --> LibReddit</li>
|
|
<li>Medium --> Scribe</li>
|
|
<li>Wikipedia --> Wikiless</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>I highly recommend everyone to do the same because these frontends are lightweight and do not use JavaScript which makes them load swiftly.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
|
|
<p>This setup has been serving me extremely well. I will continue using this setup and building on it if any specific need arises.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="../blog/images/ieshit.gif" style="width:81px;"><img src="../blog/images/iestop.gif" style="width:81px;"><img src="../blog/images/iesucks.gif" style="width:81px;"></div>
|
|
<p><a href="mailto:sufyaan@counterhawks.com?subject=My%20New%20Browser%20Setup">>>> Reply To Me</a></p>
|
|
<p><a href="browser.pdf">>>> Download PDF</a></p>
|
|
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="../email/" style="color:#bd93f9"><svg class="footer-posts" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 48 48"><mask id="ipSLeftOne0"><path fill="#fff" stroke="#fff" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="4" d="M30 36L18 24l12-12v24Z"/></mask><path fill="currentColor" d="M0 0h48v48H0z" mask="url(#ipSLeftOne0)"/></svg>Previous Post</a> - <a style="color:#bd93f9" href="../discord/">Next Post</a> <svg class="footer-posts" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 48 48"><mask id="ipSRightOne0"><path fill="#fff" stroke="#fff" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="4" d="m20 12l12 12l-12 12V12Z"/></mask><path fill="#bd93f9" d="M0 0h48v48H0z" mask="url(#ipSRightOne0)"/></svg>
|
|
<hr/>
|
|
<footer>
|
|
<p class="footer-text"><a style="color:#bd93f9" href="../blog">blog</a> - <a style="color:#ffb86c" href="../about">about</a> - <a style="color:#f1fa8c" href="../portfolio">portfolio</a> - <a style="color:#ff5555" href="../links">links</a></p>
|
|
<p class="footer-text" style="font-size:80%"><a href="../">sufyaan.me</a></p>
|
|
<p class="footer-text" style="font-size:65%"><a style="color:#aaaaaa" href="../sitemap">Site Map</a></p>
|
|
</footer>
|