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Morgan
@kaidenshi@exquisite.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Two different issues yesterday with websites not working correctly (in one case, completely broken) in Librewolf. And it's not a Librewolf issue, it's a Firefox issue as I tested both sites in that browser as well. Changing user agents didn't help either, it's obviously a deeper issue than that. I had to install Chromium (yuck) to get both sites to work. This, combined with the increasingly broken Firefox/Mozilla Sync, is making me begrudgingly look into switching to a Chromium based browser.

I'm NOT going to use Google's account sync for so many obvious reasons, so there's no need to have Google's API available. That opens me up to a bunch of truly FOSS Chromium based options so I'm going to spend some time looking into them. I have to have *BSD compatibility as I spend most of my time in FreeBSD and OpenBSD these days (I'm posting this from a FreeBSD workstation).

With all of that said, any suggestions or advice? And no, I will never use Brave; even if it wasn't a crypto and AI scam disguised as a browser, its founder is a gross misogynist and Christian nationalist. No thank you.

#foss #librewolf #firefox #chromium #askfedi #freebsd #openbsd

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Morgan
@kaidenshi@exquisite.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The second and less urgent but equally important issue is what do I do for a password manager? I've used Firefox/Mozilla Sync for this for nearly a decade, even on my phone, and the password manager part has been fine, it's the overall sync experience that's horrible. Login is partially broken; logging into sync on a new device triggers 2FA (as it should) but the browser acts like it rejects the 2FA code. It actually accepts the code, but makes me log in again before it will begin to sync.

Then, all of the non-password-related sync items get jumbled. It pulls in my browser settings correctly on the most current login, but on other devices the browser settings are reverted back to Mozilla's factory toggles, even on Librewolf (DNS over HTTPS is turned back on, "tell sites not to share my data" is turned off, strict filtering is turned off, etc.). This is annoying and frustrating and also pushing me away from anything Firefox based.

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