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kodabmx

kodabmx

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#1
Why do all the browsers seem to suck these days?

Chrome won't work with Twitter now so I moved my passwords out of Google and into Bitwarden.
Yes, I know Adblock is blocking some of Twitter, but first off: it doesn't work if I turn it off, Secondly: If your site doesn't work with ad blocking, I won't use your site.
If I go to a news site that has a "paywall", I just disable Javascript for that domain.
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Brave can't set actual location and crashes if you click a "Google Pay" button.

Firefox can't set a speed dial as it's home page, and extensions like mouse gestures don't work on built in pages (can't open a new tab with a mouse gesture on the home screen).

Opera is annoying and unstable last I used it.

Edge is MS and I'm just not interested.

Epiphany kind of sucks.

So now I'm running Vivaldi and so far so good. They even have an Android version so I've created a Vivaldi account to sync devices... Maybe I'll finally be able to have ONE browser instead of five...
 
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Sorry, I should have been specific.
I'm running Chrome version 103.0.5028.0 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) on Manjaro GNOME.
I have just confirmed it does work on version 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) (64-bit)... It seems then to be an upstream bug or an extension that doesn't play nicely. Still, I was trying to move away from Chrome in the first place hence why I went to Bitwarden for password management.
I used to think using a password based on CRC32 with a site related hint in the middle was secure. Apparently it can be cracked in seconds... I use much stronger passwords now, but I can't remember them all.
Example...
I used to use something like 8d6cdiya2f1a for DIY audio but 8d6caudia2f1a for Audio Asylum ... (not real passwords, but the same standard)... I could remember them all.
A new password looks something like t7o%t@z&QA9mx@iYavfA$v
Good luck remembering that LOL
 
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#9
Nope.
It was (apparently) an upstream problem in Chrome.
The other problems aren't "problems" as much as pet peeves.
On Android, I have the same problem with keyboards... Could becomes Le because it missed me drawing the first half of the word... Suggesting words with no context but not the ones that fit, etc.
 
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kodabmx said:
password based on CRC32 with a site related hint in the middle was secure. Apparently it can be cracked in seconds... ... like 8d6cdiya2f1a for DIY audio
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https://www.security.org/how-secure-is-my-password/
"It would take a computer about 33 thousand years to crack your password"

Allowing for Moore's Law, that may be 24 years. But by then CrackBook will tell the KGB-CIA all your secrets before you know them.

Also:
https://www.enzoic.com/password-check/

The first site tests for 'hard-to-break' (but has quirks for very short words). The second site tests for 'has this been seen in cracker dictionaries?'; if it was exposed in a compromise then it will be tried again by hackers.
 
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kodabmx said:
Why do all the browsers seem to suck these days?
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It's because they aren't web browsers any more. They are execution environments designed by competing committees. They have risen to the level of operating systems in themselves, complete with process/thread schedulers, resource management and more. As we all (should) know, OS development is hard and we are standing on the shoulders of giants by using Linux.

People need to recognise that they aren't "browsing the web" any more, they are running random code downloaded from multiple and perhaps untrustworthy servers.

Personally i use noscript on both firefox and chromium on my desktop machine (devuan or antix). Android browsers are so broken i'm stuck using an old version of firefox also with noscript.
 
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PRR said:
https://www.security.org/how-secure-is-my-password/
"It would take a computer about 33 thousand years to crack your password"

Allowing for Moore's Law, that may be 24 years. But by then CrackBook will tell the KGB-CIA all your secrets before you know them.

Also:
https://www.enzoic.com/password-check/

The first site tests for 'hard-to-break' (but has quirks for very short words). The second site tests for 'has this been seen in cracker dictionaries?'; if it was exposed in a compromise then it will be tried again by hackers.
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I was going by this: I was a little off lol
According to that first site, my new style of password would take 200 sextillion years to crack 🙂
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#14
Sadly it's hard to use just one browser. They're all broken somewhere, or some sites are badly enough coded that it takes a few goes to find a browser that's compatible.
I use Vivaldi (currently seems the best, and does have a lot of good features) Chrome and Firefox.
 
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So after a few days of Vivaldi and everything working, geolocation went out.
Firefox doesn't want to work with geolocation anymore either...
So now I'm on Opera again... I have a feeling it's a problem with geoclue... OTOH, Vivaldi support says geolocation doesn't work in Linux or MacOS (but it worked for a day or two).
 
#16
I have tried hard to like brave, but I have several extensions that silently stops working, critical extensions like session managers or security extensions etc is not good, and the browser itself seem to getting clogged up after a day so can only kill the process and start over again, ff seems to be much more stable but eats a lot more memory as if theirs a memory leak (clearing up memory under url address about:memory remediate it only fractionally). But yes, as mentioned I have had instances where I need two different browser to handle one thing, for example brave at least in my linux configuration can't save pdf files properly from important web sites because it screws up the internal file name or whatever it is, not the one seen in the file manager, so another website where I need to upload the pdf to complains the file doesn't have a file name which is just a mystery, and there have been many buggy things going on with both my main browsers and some other programs since ubuntu started to force several programs in a so called Snap package format (they silently replaced both my browsers with this other package format and other programs), being linux this forceful overreaching behavior is not a good sign and apparently got a lot of criticism.
 
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kodabmx said:
So after a few days of Vivaldi and everything working, geolocation went out.
Firefox doesn't want to work with geolocation anymore either...
So now I'm on Opera again... I have a feeling it's a problem with geoclue... OTOH, Vivaldi support says geolocation doesn't work in Linux or MacOS (but it worked for a day or two).
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Not sure what you mean by geolocation? If you mean the browser knows where you are by your IP, that never works as IP location is nonsense...
 
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For me, the first one shows my location within 500m in Opera, but there is NO location at all with Vivaldi or Firefox... I get "Geolocation: Position unavailable - Share your location to load the Where am I map" but the browser says the site is accessing location.
In all browsers, the second shows an IP based address that is in Ottawa (I'm in Toronto).
 
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