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submitted 2 days ago by bitofhope@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Are you for fucking real?

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[–] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

firefox extensions still work fine?

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most of them.

LibreWolf is literally just the FireFox build, with the telemetry & adware ripped out, and ublock origin and similar preinstalled. (I suspect people that downvoted me above assume I am shilling some commercial browser and just don't know what LW is)

I ran into a problem with Video Download Helper, it installs a co-app that had "~/.firefox" hardcoded in a script. I changed that to point to LibreWolf and it worked.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 18 hours ago

aah, a good old load-bearing "just" with all the trimmings

love it when a post tells you how much experience someone has in large-scale software and systems management (and thus also how seriously to take their advice)

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suspect people that downvoted me above assume I am shilling some commercial browser and just don’t know what LW is

lol no

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Perhaps, one day, someone will talk about "the people that downvoted me" without sounding like a total goober. But that day is not today.