No way in hell would Proton make a Chromium-based browser, the only way that would not be hypocritical is if they fully open sourced it (you could compile it yourself), and maintained their own fork completely devoid of Google tracking and telemetry.

Right now I don’t think Proton would do much better than existing options. There are browsers on different ends of the privacy to convenience spectrum (and these are all Gecko based):

• Firefox: decent privacy by default without changing any settings
• Librewolf: Firefox but with hardened settings for privacy
• Mullvad Browser: Almost the same as Tor but not on the Tor network, which is admittedly slow
• Tor: Uses the Tor Network and by default very hardened for Privacy but makes lots of convenience and QoL tradeoffs, including letterboxing to common browser resolutions.

Wow its that bad?

The only reason Mozilla still exists is because Google needs them to so Chrome can’t be a complete monopoly.

Yep this is exactly what I meant. Maybe I should’ve made that clear.

But couldn’t the JS runtime track which objects and variables interact with such information, so if they make any HTTP requests with the info after getting it and maybe processing it then it could be rejected?

Firefox changes the capacity dynamically, I set browser.cache.disk.capacity to false in about:config and browser.cache.disk.capacity to 1024000 (the storage amount in MBs)

macOS

The issue with bookmarks is that it takes too much navigation to open one and browsers don’t allow to select multiple in a folder to open

Do u have any ideas for things to try on macOS?

This is really useful thanks!

Im on a laptop though, any ideas?

For backing up history files.

I’ve received complaints about spamming posts so I added the instance names in the titles. I thought there’s no harm in posting crossposting, I know Lemmy is federated but I want to ensure they show up instead of hoping for automatic feed algorithm to show them when it may or may not.

IDK why I so much flak. If any here downvotes my posts or this comment please respond below with your thoughts to help me figure out how to move forward.

Oh you’re absolutely right, I’ve been in that territory for awhile ago, I haven’t gotten time until lately to make addons.

Which extension was it? Maybe take a look on ur PC.

It does in fact only bookmark the first tab when multiple are selected.

Oh this is exactly what I wanted, thank you!

I don’t think so, its just the downloads folder on my Mac.

The later.

I have a blank copy of Firefox that I just open, I also have the option to always ask turned off there and it asks for the download location when trying to download images.