#firefox OS

[nyaa]

2007-09-26 artist unknown

[amalgamasreal]

Updated Personal Infosec Post

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts part deus: but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides. Browsers: There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out. Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN: Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever public network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Mullvad VPN: Is a fast and inexpensive VPN with a serious focus on transparency and security. They have been in operation since 2009. Mullvad is based in Sweden and offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for payment methods that allow it.

Email Provider: Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Ol utlook.com you'll need to pay.

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Mailbox.org: Is an email service with a focus on being secure, ad-free, and privately powered by 100% eco-friendly energy. They have been in operation since 2014. Mailbox.org is based in Berlin, Germany. Accounts start with up to 2GB storage, which can be upgraded as needed.

Email Client:

Thunderbird: a free, open-source, cross-platform email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Matrix) client developed by the Thunderbird community, and previously by the Mozilla Foundation.

FairMail (Android Only): minimal, open-source email app which uses open standards (IMAP, SMTP, OpenPGP), has several out of the box privacy features, and minimizes data and battery usage.

Cloud Storage:

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free

FreeOffice: Personal licenses are free, probably the closest to a fully office suite replacement.

Chat Clients: Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those. Note2: Signal has had some reports of security flaws, the service it was built on was originally built for the US Government, and it is based within the CONUS thus is susceptible to US subpoenas. Take that as you will.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

SimpleX: Truly anonymous account creation, fully encrypted end to end, available for Android and iOS.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode. For more secure distributions for the more advanced users the options are: Whonix, Tails (Live USB only), and Qubes OS.

On a personal note I use Arch Linux, but I WOULD NOT recommend this be anyone's first distro as it requires at least a base level understanding of Linux and liberal use of the Arch Linux Wiki. If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help. I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[technoneko-2000]

☆ art by SATO, circa 2008 ☆

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[netscapenavigator-official]

Yuck. Zorin OS 17.3 switched its default browser to Brave. I kinda feel like I don’t trust the Zorin team anymore. Claiming to trust a Chromium Crypto Browser over Firefox (even if Mozilla did just pull some shady ass shit) makes me feel kinda anxious about trusting my data on their software. I wonder what other Linux distros run on modern MacBook hardware.

[tetranymous]

Does anyone know of a way to force a memory limit on Firefox for Android?

All of the methods I've seen are only for desktop (mobile doesn't have about:config) or people saying that you should leave the memory management to the OS (clearly not helpful) or people complaining about slowness or storage space or browser crashes (irrelevant, clogging up search results) or confusing ram with internal storage (who even decided to call internal storage memory in the first place??? As if RAM didn't already mean random access MEMORY).

I'm getting sick of Firefox suddenly using up all of the RAM and causing my entire phone to hard crash and reboot 😭 (not just a tab or browser crash).

My phone's fairly old (I've gotta upgrade soon due to the 3g shutoff and lack of VOLTE support) but that's still a while away and it's only Firefox that's causing this to happen, everything else runs fine (plus I'd still like to use this thing even when I upgrade!). Can't mess about in root until I upgrade because this era of phone punishes you if you do (and I don't want to break something in there and be out of a phone for several months! Again!)

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[phoebastria-albatrus]

the funniest thing is that you can justv. Trick a laptop web browser to thinking its on a phone

[nyaa]

Hideyosi 2004/5/29

[amalgamasreal]

On Personal InfoSec

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one of these posts and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides.

Browsers:

There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out.

Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN:

Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Proton VPN: Has easily the most amount of countries serviced, can take cash payments, and does offer port forwarding.

Email Provider:

Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Outlook.com you'll need to pay.

Proton Mail: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and fairly easy to setup and use. Offers a free option up to 1gb

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Email Client:

Thunderbird if you're on Windows or Linux

Apple Mail if you're on macOS

Cloud Storage:

Proton Drive: Encrypted cloud storage from the same people as Proton Mail.

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free, and open source.

Chat Clients:

Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode.

If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help.

I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[primordialruin]

You guys. Trim your posts or I won't follow your blogs. If neither rp partner trims, then your threads are basically a repeat of the same text that clogs up all of our dashes. It's a lot.

If you're mostly on mobile, then download the Firefox browser and add the xkit addon there. That's how I trim my posts when I'm stuck on my phone. (Which is 99% of the time)

[ragingbullmode]

hmmmmm starting to realize why a friend gave me this mac desktop for free 🧍

[netscapenavigator-official]

Honestly, the worst part about switching OSes on my laptop is that NoScript always resets itself. I wish Firefox would somehow save all of my NoScript settings and sync them when I log in. Having to manually fix every website I go to again is not fun.

[techniktagebuch]

Anfang September 2023

Braves Brausen Bringt's (vielleicht)

Alles fängt damit an, dass der (inzwischen zweite) Akku in meinem 15" Macbook von 2014 schlappmacht. Erst schaltet es aus, wenn man ein Video anschaut, dann bereits ein paar Sekunden, nachdem man den Strom abstöpselt. (Der originale Akku hat übrigens deutlich länger gehalten als der zweite in (angeblich) Erstausrüsterqualität, aber das ist ein anderes Thema.)

Jedenfalls krame ich für mobile Anwendungen (z. B. am Frühstückstisch) erst mal mein noch älteres 11,6" Macbook Air heraus. Das fühlt sich mit dem ohnehin nicht mehr updatebaren Mac OS-X reichlich überfordert, so dass ich Linux (Ubuntu) darauf installiere. Als erstes lade ich Firefox als Browser herunter, weil ich denke, das macht man so. Leider läuft Firefox alles andere als stabil. Der nächste Browser soll Chrome sein, der auf allen meinen anderen Rechnern installiert ist. Ob es stimmt, weiß ich nicht, aber ich habe Chrome als ressourcenhungrig abgespeichert, also vielleicht nicht die beste Idee für das altersschwache Macbook Air. Denn auch mit Linux tut es sich schwer.

Ich recherchiere, dass es einen neuen "schlanken" Browser namens "Brave" gibt. Den installiere ich also in der Linux-Version als nächstes, und es gelingt mir sogar, alle Bookmarks und Tabs zu importieren. Da auch alle Addons wie mit Zauberhand wieder da sind, ahne ich, dass ich vielleicht technisch gar nicht so weit von Chrome entfernt bin. Egal. Der Browser läuft trotz "beta" rund. Was will man mehr? Alles fühlt sich so an wie vorher, nur zum Suchen wird irgendwie nicht standardmäßig "Google" verwendet, sondern "brave search", eventuell eine Google-Suche ohne Übersendung von Daten, die man für persönliche Nutzerprofile verwenden kann? Wer weiß. Eigentlich ist mir das ja egal. Eigentlich.

Denn als Nächstes weckt ein Blogbeitrag, den ich leider vor dem Bookmarken weggeklickt habe, meine kleine Daten-Paranoia, die eigentlich sonst nicht so ausgeprägt ist. Jedenfalls wird mal wieder vor Chrome als dAtenKrAKe gewarnt. Was mir aber auch zu schaffen macht, sind Meldungen auf meinem 15"-Macbook, dass ich keine neuen Chrome-Updates bekommen werde, weil mein Betriebssystem zu alt ist. Das wiederum lässt sich nicht ändern, weil mit neueren Versionen als Mac OS Mojave Lightroom 6 nicht mehr läuft. Gnagnagna.

Also switche ich auch hier zu "Brave" – und handle mir auch dort prompt die Meldung ein, dass ich keine Updates bekomme. Das hat ja super geklappt. Aber der Browser läuft rund, und darum lasse ich es auch so. Vielleicht ist er ja wirklich ressourcenschonender. Dann soll es mir recht sein – bis ich vermutlich in nicht all zu ferner Zukunft den Abschied von Apple-Laptop-Geräten einläuten werden. Bei der Preisentwicklung kann und will ich nicht mithalten – und selbst auf dem neuesten Windows-Betriebssystem kann ich Lightroom 6 installieren.

(Markus Winninghoff)

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