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Why I Left Firefox for Brave in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

UPDATE: Switching to Firefox ESR seems to have solved this issue!

Why I Left Firefox for Brave in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I'm looking for a script that disables all power settings when Firefox is playing a full screen video, but then re-enables them when the video closes.

Does anyone have that script?

Why I Left Firefox for Brave in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've tried disabling the screensaver in power settings (not via script). But I have to keep some power settings so that my machine goes to sleep when not in use and the TV turns off.

So whatever my power settings are, they will kick in. If I disable screensaver but I have a 30 min sleep timer, the comp will go to sleep, even if I'm watching a movie in Firefox.

Typically, turning off my TV looks like this:

  • I close a tab that's playing a movie.
  • Firefox reverts to my home tab, showing all my streaming sites.
  • I get up and walk away
  • My computer goes to sleep
  • My TV, not getting any input from the computer, turns off.

If I go the script route, it might screw up that sequence, right?

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Why I Left Firefox for Brave (lemm.ee)
 

I've been a Firefox user for 15+ years. I love its flexibility, privacy, and (absent that rough patch in the mid 2010s) its speed. It really is a great browser. But I've hit a limitation.

One of my machines is an HTPC running Linux. I watch almost all my movies in the browser via streaming sites. At first, Firefox was ideal for this: it handles fullscreen browsing well (better than Brave) by letting me access tabs just by moving my mouse to the top of the screen. And I'm able to adjust the scale of the Firefox interface to make it more HTPC-friendly via about:config. That's not possible in Brave.

But Firefox has 2 issues that make it virtually unusable as an HTPC browser.

  1. When Firefox plays fullscreen video (on Linux), it can't stop the screensaver from coming on. This issue has sprung up repeatedly for over a decade and been reported multiple times.
  2. Extensions like Keep Awake/Caffeine do not work with Firefox on Linux. I use these extensions so that I can keep non-video sites (like Rollgator) on my TV screen persistently, without the screensaver coming on.

I'm bummed. I would rather use Firefox, with its great interface and its long history. I still use Firefox on my phone, laptop, and desktop. But at the moment, Brave is the only browser (of the two) that has addressed these issues on Linux. If that ever changes, I will happily come back to Firefox on my HTPC. (It would be great, because then I could easily send tabs from my devices to my TV!) Until then, I'm sticking with Brave.

Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact about the original Sim City: the lead developer said that they wanted to model real cities in the game, but "we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots."

Source

DRM Hell in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But... Why? Why would they get different restrictions on the basis of operating system?

Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Sounds like that's in here:

"The test build shows the horizontal tab bar and the sidebar at the same time by default. A click on the new "hide tab strip" button hides the horizontal tab bar so that only the vertical sidebar remains."

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's all true. But that's a good argument for "You shouldn't only vote," not "You shouldn't vote." See the difference?

If the only action we take is voting, then the tyrants who aren't constrained by law will win. If the only action we take is direct action, then the tyrants win as soon as they outgun us. If we use voting to advance things in civil society inside the lines and direct action to keep the tyrants playing inside the lines, we win.

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not sure how to tell you this, but the Right has spent years and millions of dollars trying to make voting illegal for its opponents.

So... I guess it does change shit, by your definition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/officials-investigating-why-126000-voters-were-purged-from-ny-rolls

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-seven-states-removing-voters-from-the-rolls-just-got-easier/