Browsers

Options for browsers

Previously used

1. Brave browser

   1. Use the script from here: https://brave.com/linux/
   2. 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.
   3. Pros
      1. Blocks YouTube ads by default
      2. Brave Sync is great

2. Chrome browser

3. Firefox browser

4. Tor browser

   pacman -S torbrowser-launcher
   
   sudo dnf install torbrowser-launcher
   

   1. Official way to install Tor Browser
      1. Just go to this url: https://www.torproject.org/download/.
      2. Click on the “Download for Linux” button.
      3. Uncompress the downloaded “*.tar.xz” archive; move the uncompressed directory to your home, for example ‘/home/$USERNAME/opt’.
      4. Launch Tor-Browser 1st time: double-click on “Tor-Browser Setup” inside the directory; it will change the icon to “Tor-Browser” and launch the browser.
      5. Launch Tor-Browser next times: double click on “Tor-Browser” in the directory, or make an entry in your menu using your menu manager.

Never used before

1. LibreWolf

   1. Recommended in security forums
   2. https://librewolf.net/

2. Zen Browser

   1. A variant of Firefox browser
   2. Based on Firefox’s Gecco engine

3. GNU web browser - to keep firefox and regular surfing separate (Chromium is an alternative to this).

   paru -S icecat-bin
   

   Doesn’t run javascript. So, not very practical.

Helpful Plugins

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

Tags

1. What happens when you type a URL into your browser?
2. Browser extensions for Web Development
3. Managing bookmarks in browsers