yea so um is this any good. 😹😹

Hey r/browsers — I've been building extensions for Chrome and just finished porting both to Firefox. Curious what Firefox users think, since I know this crowd cares about things like privacy and performance more than most.

Obsidian Citation Capture — one click turns a journal page into an Obsidian note with the full citation, abstract, and PDF link. For researchers who live in Obsidian.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/obsidian-citation-capture/

DevTools Full-Spectrum Assistant — a DevTools panel that audits pages for form issues, accessibility problems, and runtime errors, then suggests fixes and re-scans to prove they worked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/devtools-full-spectrum-asst/

Both are free to try. I'm the solo dev, so honest feedback (especially "this is broken") is genuinely useful.

I hope your pillow is cold on both sides today, and you live the rest of your life happy without a struggle

NOTE: This is meant as a non-judgmental open forum post, so take your negativity and shove it if you're planning to shit on people for their choices.

I use Trivalent on my main Fedora build. But if Trivalent didn't exist and I was aiming for a secure alternative that I can trust will be maintained for years to come... hmm, genuinely, it just comes down to the big corporate browsers. I am skeptical of the claims of many big "privacy browsers", all I care about is that it loads the stuff and has protections against big exploits. So for me that leaves me with a few choices: Chrome, Edge, and Brave. I'd have to debloat all with policies to get them near what Trivalent has, but for me the biggest focus is on update pace, so it would probably just be Chrome with some flags altered and integrations disabled via policy (mainly the Gemini stuff).

What would you guys move to if tomorrow your daily driver browser died?

I've been using Google and Chrome for the last 5 Years, and now I'm thinking of switching Browsers. However I can't decide which one to switch to... Can y'all help me decide?

I have a question to people who owns it. How is Brave Origin? Is it worth buying?

Pros and cons, please and thank you.

Hey,

I'm a huge fan of Firefox.

In my work laptop, I used Edge most of the time and on the edge if I wanted to open netsuite, all I needed was to type "net" and one enter and it'd open it. Even for other sites, if I would have typed "vitune" it would open github.com/vitune automatically because I've been a frequent visitor.

But in Firefox that does not work. If I type vitune, in the url suggestion it will be shown, but I need to either use the mouse to click it or arrow keys to navigate. I believe I'm missing some settings here.

Does anyone know how I can enable that feature in Firefox/waterfox?

I have not used any ai, and I'm trying to fix my english. If there're any mistakes in grammar or sentence formation, I'm sorry brothers :)

A while ago I shared MRU Tab Switcher, an extension I built with Claude’s help to get Brave’s Ctrl+Tab behaviour back after moving to a Chromium browser. Thanks for the feedback! Version 1.1.0 is out:

• Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes the other way through your recent tabs. Pressed on its own, it jumps to the tab you used least recently.
• Brave-style history: every tab you land on while cycling counts as recently used, same as Brave.
• Settings page (right-click the icon → Options): how long a pause ends a cycle (0.3–1.5 s), Brave-style history on/off, and cycling the current window or all windows.
• Much easier Ctrl+Tab setup: a welcome page opens after install with a “Copy setup code” button, so you just paste it on the shortcuts page. Chrome still doesn’t let extensions take Ctrl+Tab by themselves, so that one-time paste is still needed.
• The icon goes grey when it’s off, and the right-click menu has shortcuts, Ctrl+Tab setup and help.

Still no page access, no tracking and no data collected. Free and open source.

Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffkjkhogdepleegfoakgihhmcfekdnoa
Code: https://github.com/Hariprasad-b-s/mru-extension

If you already have it, Chrome updates it automatically. To get Ctrl+Shift+Tab, rerun the setup code from the settings page. Feedback and bug reports welcome!

First post Link - https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1wxfm54/mru_tab_switcher_smooth_like_brave_browser/

Hey everyone, I use Helium as my daily browser. Lately I've been seeing posts about Helium acting up with slow page loads, and the same thing happened to me. At first I told myself it was fine, but it got to the point where every refresh took 10 to 20 seconds. As a mod I'm constantly jumping between modmail, notifications, and comments, so that delay was driving me insane.

Out of frustration I switched my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Kagi. The first load was almost instant, pages opened smoothly. Then I switched again to Bing, and honestly? Pages are loading great now, and even media loads way better.

So my question is: is it actually possible that the default search engine can slow down page loading in Helium? Or am I just tripping? 😭 I'm not tech savvy at all, I don't really understand how speed and all that works, but this trick genuinely worked for me.

I also wanted to ask: is Bing a good search engine privacy-wise? Since I'm using it now, I figured I'd check. I love Helium and don't want to switch browsers, I just want to understand what's going on.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a dumb question lol.

Hey everyone

I've been testing YouTube performance in DaliNira which is an open source Linux browser I'm developing

These tests were done using the currently installed AUR version with the Chromium engine and built in ad blocking enabled

Here's what I observed during actual YouTube playback

• One video was using around 339 MB RAM with 10% CPU usage
• Another video initially reached 610 MB RAM with 37% CPU usage
• After a few minutes of watching the same video memory dropped to 210 MB with 22% CPU usage
• During some video switches I've also seen memory usage reach around 1.5 GB

The measurements come from the browser's tab performance panel and do not necessarily represent total browser memory usage

Videos play normally with ad blocking enabled

What I find interesting is that memory usage can be relatively high during the first few minutes before dropping significantly without reloading the page

I'm still working on improving performance and investigating these fluctuations

Have you noticed similar behavior in Brave Chrome Firefox or other browsers

Does this look like normal Chromium memory management or something worth investigating further

I'd appreciate your technical feedback

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With my very limited software knowledge, i ask those who have slightly more software knowledge, and ask why the fuck is there no browser that is fast like alot of chromium based browsers (helium, vivaldi etc) with the UI & features that zen has. I love zen, however it uses way too much resources, and I do love firefox but im pretty sure chromium is faster anyway.

What I'm trying to say is, is there any browser with the UI and features of Zen (no compromise bullshit) but with the speed of literally any other browser, and obviously private.

I love brave’s privacy but It’s bloated, I love zen’s features,look but It’s slow, I love helium’s lightweight and fastness but customization is limited with chromium