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Exactly what should have been done 20 years ago. Instead, they've built tons of bikes in the form of containers, flatpacks, snappers, and other nonsense - just so they don't have to throw out a 60's piece coprolite called FHS.
independent browsers that exist due to agreements with search engines.
How independent are you if you take money from Google? Don't take money from Google and then maybe you'll become independent. But now you're looking at a kind of second-fresh independence. Maybe if it becomes the first, you will start attracting users instead of only repelling them and slamming doors. Because you got hooked on the needle of Google money and eventually lost all your users.
They fired a bunch of programmers. I sincerely wish them to go bankrupt and go to McDuck as waiters for 1.5 dollars an hour.
Not an exhaustive list on the Gecko engine or its forks:
- Mozilla Firefox (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS)
- LibreWolf (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Waterfox (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Tor Browser (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- Pale Moon (Windows, Linux)
- Basilisk (Windows, Linux)
- K-Meleon (Windows)
- Midori (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- SeaMonkey (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Floorp (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- CometBird (Windows)
- IceDragon (Windows)
- Flock (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Capyloon (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Ladybird (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- QupZilla (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Zen Browser (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Comodo IceDragon (Windows)
- Otter Browser (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Hackers have increased their focus on cracking password managers by extracting data from RAM and registry, compromising local and cloud storage. 25% is a threefold increase compared to the previous year's figures.
Good thing the KeepassXC can be used as a 2nd factor authenticator, though it has TOTP only, doesn't offer HOTP.
Ubuntu – few applications, unstable: over time, some problems with the volume were, cured only reboot; there is no normal application Telegram (web client that the battery eats).
CalyxOS is subjectively more convenient, F-Droid and RuStore download by machine, F-Droid installs an update machine, RuStore downloads and asks for /e/OS RuStore to download forcibly. Also on both MicroG systems, but on /e/OS, SBPay bent and didn't work, on CalyxOS - no problem. Similar to applications, for example, for renting scooters: on /e/OS some problems, on CalyxOS - no problems. There are fewer problems with CalyxOS.
With Sber, Rosselkhozbank and Unicredit, there are no problems there or there. Russian mail application does not work on any platform.
The only plus/e/OS is what is in GooglePlay, but not in RuStore, it is easier to put: AuroraStore on CalyxOS makes you go out and log in all the time to update the installed applications; on /e/OS, what is installed in your home store, including with Google PlayStore applications is updated without problems by automaton.
Imagine that someone collected and kept the bookmarks there, and now they will disappear. Another reason to remember that you do not need to store anything important remotely.