I was born some time ago near a farm.
In Llammersville.
My mother called me Llams.
I was confused.
I am still confused.

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.socialtoFirefox@fedia.io•Can I get firefox to act as two separate browsers?
    2·
    1 year ago

    Use profiles, as @igorlogius said.

    If you want different shortcuts, use the following command in your .desktop file (assuming you use Linux):
    firefox -no-remote -P

    for example, assuming you named your music profile music, you put the following line in a firefox-music.desktop file you’ll create in ~/.local/share/applications/:

    Exec=firefox -no-remote -P music (in addition to other common .desktop file fields)

    If your firefox executable is not located in your $PATH (for example if you downloaded it directly from Mozilla), then you need to put the path too. for example:
    Exec=~/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P music

    Edit:

    here’s a full .desktop file example for a profile named “work”:
    file path and name: /home/confusedllama/.local/share/applications/firefox-work.desktop

    Content:

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox for work
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work
Icon=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Name[en_US]=Firefox for work
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -new-window

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -private-window

    This example will give you “Open a new window” and “Open a private window” options too, when you right click on the shortcut. Also as you can see, you can even set a different icon for each shortcut.

  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web
    8·
    1 year ago

    I use FreeTube, which is opensource and allows you to subscribe to channels without an account. The awesome thing is that you can categorize channels under different “profiles”.

    However, I think it won’t take too long for Google to paywall YouTube APIs and do what it can to prevent web scraping (through disabling login-less use or attempts such as the one linked in this thread.). So our best option would be to ask our favorite Youtubers to move (or duplicate) their videos to other platforms such a peertube, and start using those platforms ourselves.

  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web
    37·
    1 year ago

    That is the only solution to all this!

    To everyone: Please remove at least as much Google products/services as you can from your life. Start with the easiest ones. Have a plan and gradually find alternatives for all other products/services of them. Remove them from your life. It will help even if you do this partly. This is for the benefit of us all.

    Also, let’s do the same to Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Reddit etc. Let’s not let our lives depend on them. They are corporations. They are programmed to maximize profit.

    I know there’s currently not a lot of good alternatives out there, but if enough of us ditch these ass-companies, more and more open-source, decentralized, not-for-benefit services will pop up, and the existing ones will improve greatly. These are not for-profit projects that can be bought by corporations later and used to their benefit. They will only benefit their users.

    Let’s do this!

    Fuck megacorporations!