And what features and/or technologies you’d rather not see in a web browser
Lets make this interesting: you can imagine features ( there’s no wrong answers ) , its not just about features that you already saw in other browsers
Dark theme and accessible color contrast enforced by default.
If the site owner makes stupid choices, my browser should ignore them.
Edit: And an automatic switch to light theme if I decode to print something, obviously. I want raised in a barn.
A limit of data that can be used daily and we can track how much data we consume.
A little discrete “progress bar” at the bottom of the toolbar would be cool to see in the blink of an eye where I am on my daily limit.
I want browsers to not choke and die whenever you idle on a video for too long. I’ve noticed this with Chrome and Firefox both. If I leave a YouTube video on idle for longer than a half hour and I come back to it, I gotta refresh or sometimes copy the link, open a new tab, paste it there and go to the video to resume. Sometimes it doesn’t even resume where I left off, gotta start from the beginning.
It’s aggravating.
I’m still looking for the browser with the best tab design and management (across devices being a requirement). Arc was pretty good in this regard, but the AI stuff was too obnoxious for me. Now I’m back to Safari.
Data saving option for mobile netwerk , and website’s RSS feed finder , webpage translation too … As for what I don’t want to see : big installation size , ugly design and tracking
website’s RSS feed finder
On Firefox, the RSSHubRadar extension is useful for that.
The feature being available by default in browsers would be cool
- Tab-organisation features (e.g. stacking, trees)
- Synchronised history - so you can find something you were looking at on your phone on your desktop or vice-versa
- Containers (Firefox) are great
- Full-page screenshot (Firefox) is very handy
Synchronized favorites is pretty nice too.
About synchronization, one i’ve never seen is tabs, being able to open any tabs on one device to another. Maybe the clipboard could also be useful to share link/text to another device…
Containers?
‘Multi-Account Containers’: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
With it, you can open tabs in different ‘containers’, which have their own set of cookies, etc… So, for example, you can be logged into two accounts for the same website, just in different containers, or keep all your shopping accounts in one container (and set those sites to always open in that container) to reduce tracking and targeting.
Ah. Interesting. For work I log in to a bunch of AWS accounts and I’m only able to do two at a time. One in a normal window and another in a private window. But I can’t open a 3rd private window. So this will be the answer, I think.
Thank you!
I’d like to be able to link a web app and its mobile app (lemmy.world and Jerboa for example). And to set a limit to the amount of time I spend on the pair. And have that sync across all my devices.
that’s interesting, I’m not sure I understand the idea, do you want the browser to monitor the mobile app time usage ( Jerboa ), I’m i correct ?
I spend too much time on Lemmy. And I do use an app timer on my phone. I need the website to take away from that same timer as well. When I use the website on my phone and on my laptop. I’m happy to make this clearer.
Personally, I’d be happy with a web browser that doesn’t make me jump through hoops to access a HTTPS site with certificate errors on a local IP address.
I don’t care if 192.168.1.1 is using a self-signed certificate. I just want to configure my fucking router.
I wanted to make coffee. Not a coffee maker that has a web browser - a web browser that can make coffee.
“Would you like some cookies with your coffee?”
Extension on HTTP 418 I’m a Teapot
I want regex find. I’m fairly certain firefox used to have it, but no longer seems to.
I want the old animated Netscape logo in the corner back
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On android…Firefox refreshes the page any time you go to another tab or app and come back. That drives me batshit.
It rather sounds like too little free RAM or too agressive RAM management (frequent on Chinese phones) forcing Firefox to kill the tab as soon as you leave it.
For my own use RAM management shouldn’t be a thing, i want all my apps to either stay loaded or just crash completely.
if i open a site that ive opened x times this week/month a popup appears that says “no” then the pc shuts down and cannot be turned on for 3 hours.
saying: “no” sounds rude… maybe something like “no, go touch grass” that’d be better
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built-in adblocker
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ability to have JavaScript / sound / image loading turned off by default but with a whitelist of sites that can run / play / load them
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built-in secure password manager
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open-source, natch
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native ssh and ftp
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a button that autogenerates a metadata-free, archived link to the current page
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bring back flash
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can open any folder of folders of images as a slideshow
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feeds false metadata to sites trying to fingerprint the user
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rejects / autodeletes all but whitelisted cookies
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built-in tamagotchi / virtual pets
Upvoted for the tamagotchi / virtual pets. The other stuff, too, but mostly the virtual pets.
bring back flash
There are really good reasons flash died. If you’re desperate for flash content, use ruffle.
- built-in adblocker
- built-in secure password manager
- built-in tamagotchi / virtual pets
I believe most would prefer a modular approach with a well built extension and addon framework.
- can open any folder of folders of images as a slideshow
- native ssh and ftp
I’d prefer the web browser to be good at web browsing. Excellent software already exists that does all of that.
- bring back flash
Dear god no
out of curiosity, what might I use for the slideshow application?
ftp
It’s crazy that Firefox was good with ftp until they just decided to not support it anymore 😕
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The thing I want natively is a built-in way to control volume per tab- not just mute, not through a plugin… Just a simple volume slider that works.
This would be a nice feature.
