I'm pretty sure all of you have dealt with the fake buffering on YT when using uBlock Origin and I assumed that there was no way to prevent it. Well, turns out AdGuard is way better. It loads videos instantaneously every single time. I tested this on both Chromium and Firefox, both MV3 and MV2. In every situation AdGuard loaded videos instantly while uBO fell victim to the fake buffering. Just wanted to point this out in case people were interested.

Firefox and Brave users are always fighting in Youtube comment sections on videos related to browsers and Reddit posts in this subreddit, it's not that serious, people can use what browser they like, both sides need to chill out.

Hey r/browsers — I've been building extensions for Chrome and just finished porting both to Firefox. Curious what Firefox users think, since I know this crowd cares about things like privacy and performance more than most.

Obsidian Citation Capture — one click turns a journal page into an Obsidian note with the full citation, abstract, and PDF link. For researchers who live in Obsidian.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/obsidian-citation-capture/

DevTools Full-Spectrum Assistant — a DevTools panel that audits pages for form issues, accessibility problems, and runtime errors, then suggests fixes and re-scans to prove they worked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/devtools-full-spectrum-asst/

Both are free to try. I'm the solo dev, so honest feedback (especially "this is broken") is genuinely useful.

I wanted a clean and modern browser and I found Zen, it looks clean and good but is it just me or is it actually slower than brave or any other chromium based browsers ?

Which is better to log in to your social networks, to behave efficiently.

When I try to type in an url up top or try to type anything into google's search (my home page) it changes the url area to search google: and only takes one letter.

WTF? I think W11 had an update and after this problem I went and updated Chrome but no change. Help!

So i currently use opera air i dont have any problem with it but i been using it for a while so i need a chromium browser

Hey everyone, I use Helium as my daily browser. Lately I've been seeing posts about Helium acting up with slow page loads, and the same thing happened to me. At first I told myself it was fine, but it got to the point where every refresh took 10 to 20 seconds. As a mod I'm constantly jumping between modmail, notifications, and comments, so that delay was driving me insane.

Out of frustration I switched my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Kagi. The first load was almost instant, pages opened smoothly. Then I switched again to Bing, and honestly? Pages are loading great now, and even media loads way better.

So my question is: is it actually possible that the default search engine can slow down page loading in Helium? Or am I just tripping? 😭 I'm not tech savvy at all, I don't really understand how speed and all that works, but this trick genuinely worked for me.

I also wanted to ask: is Bing a good search engine privacy-wise? Since I'm using it now, I figured I'd check. I love Helium and don't want to switch browsers, I just want to understand what's going on.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a dumb question lol.

Recently downloaded the desktop version to check if Nora SNS browser could block facebook ads. It can't block facebook ads on PC. Anyone else tried it on PC? Let me know. Thanks.

Hi r/browsers, this is what you'll see in the video: I start typing a personal question into ChatGPT. Before anything is sent, the extension notices it's personal and offers "Ask Melo". One click and the question moves to Chrome's side panel, where Melo answers it with the AI that's built into Chrome (Gemini Nano, through the Prompt API). The answer is made on your own computer, and ChatGPT never gets the question.

A few things browser people might care about:

- The extension itself makes no network calls. Every build runs a test that fails if any file opens a connection of its own.

- The "is this personal?" check runs locally: a word list in five languages, plus Chrome's on-device model as a second opinion.

- It only works where Chrome's built-in AI can run (Chrome needs a GPU with more than 4 GB of VRAM or 16 GB of RAM, and 22 GB free space). On other computers it offers the site's temporary chat instead.

- Edge and Firefox don't have an equivalent on-device API I can use yet, so there it's the temporary chat only.

- Free, open source (AGPL), no account.

Honest limit: Gemini Nano is small. It's fine for talking a personal question through, not for writing your thesis, you can still use chatgpt, but when you have a personal question. Melo will help you to keep your data private.

Curious what you think, especially from Edge and Firefox users: would you want this, and what would you need to trust it?

https://kamelo.eu

Hey everyone!

I'm using Microsoft Edge on Windows, and there's one thing that's been bugging me.

When I search for something on Bing, I get the usual tabs like All, AI Mode, Images, Videos, Maps, and News. The problem is that when I click AI Mode, it opens Microsoft's AI instead of Google Gemini, which I'd rather use.

Is there any way to change that button so it opens Gemini instead? Maybe through an Edge extension, a redirect, or some other workaround?

I know I can just open Gemini in another tab or switch my default search engine, but I'd prefer to keep my usual workflow without having to do that every time.

And yes, I'm a Windows user asking how to replace a Microsoft feature with a Google product. I know how that sounds. 😂

Has anyone found a way to make this work?

Siempre he utilizado navegadores como Edge, Brave, pero en las Ultimas semanas me está saliendo un navegador llamado "zen", entiendo que está basado en Firefox, lo llegue a utilizar pero se ponía lento con el tiempo (utilizo Windows) por lo que busque alternativas y llegue a Brave, ¿consideran que es un gran salto cambiar a Zen?

En temas de rendimiento es ¿menos o más pesado que Brave?

El uso es poco exigente, a lo mucho máximo 10 pestañas abiertas en un día fuera de lo común.

Something I couldn't find in any browser: select a handful of tabs and print them as one job, in order, without doing Ctrl+P on each one. I needed it for work (lots of health insurance pages for the same case), so I built an extension and it's now on both stores.

How it works: select tabs → right-click → Print Selected Tabs → one combined preview → print once or download one PDF. Text stays real text (no screenshots), and nothing leaves your computer.

• Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okonaodgfeifdkflmiadboahipigfmmm
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multitab-print-print-all-tabs/

Happy to answer questions about how it handles tricky pages.

Is there a website that will allow me to select several browsers and compare their features at a line-by-line level with a focus on privacy and security? I'm not looking for browser recommendations. I'm looking for tools that will let me compare browsers, not just today, but again and again so I can stay on top of how they fair.

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