Browsers

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Options for browsers

  1. Brave browser (use paru in Arch Linux)
    1. User-Agent Switcher and Manager
      1. When YouTube stops working in brave browser, try changing the user agent (to something like Firefox-windows) and see if it works.
      2. If so, you can use the User Agent Switcher Extension to always change YouTube’s user agent.
      3. I had luck with the user-agent Android kitkat for YouTube.
      4. Figure out how to use the whitelist to have it only for YouTube and not for any other website.
    2. Pros
      1. Blocks YouTube ads by default
      2. Brave Sync is great
  2. Chrome browser
  3. Firefox browser
  4. Zen Browser
    1. A variant of Firefox browser
    2. Based on Firefox’s Gecco engine
  5. Tor browser 
    pacman -S torbrowser-launcher
  6. GNU web browser - to keep firefox and regular surfing separate (Chromium is an alternative to this). 
    paru -S icecat-bin
  7. What happens when you type a URL into your browser?
  8. Browser extensions for Web Development
  9. Managing bookmarks in browsers

Plugins

  1. bitwarden
  2. instapaper
  3. Dark Reader
  4. Tabliss - A Beautiful New Tab

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