On 6/2/24 00:03, Felix Miata via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No one must use only one web browser on a computer he controls. Some browsers do > some things better than others. Some browsers do things others can't do at all. I > typically have 5 browsers (not browser windows) open, but sometimes more, among > them: Pale Moon, Falkon, Chromium, Firefox, besides SeaMonkey, and multiple > versions of some, not to mention browser profiles. So many are just Chromium with different toppings. And it has made a huge mess, as I discovered in my TV project. First, the non-Chromium example, Netscape/Firefox. To stream a huge variety of video, a DRM plugin called Widevine must be employed. It is a Google thing, but to keep the million-pound Federal hammer from coming down on Google they made it available to FireScape. Ah, yes, well . . . It turns out that the current version of Firefox (and every version since 119) won't keep screensavers from triggering. There is a version called Firefox ESR that screensavers respect, but it won't run Widevine. Widevine won't run at all on most Chromium derivatives. It will run on Chromium itself. You can spend all day trying recipes to make it work, making a spiderweb of symlinks . . . to no avail. A bare-bones browser that runs Widevine while also accepting privacy plugins . . . doesn't exist. So the solution is to have a batch of browsers, each for its own few sites, all through a reliable VPN, each emerging a different place. (And things like FreeTube, which is amazing.) dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
