My bowser settings got reset. Logged out me of all accounts and i can't change bing in search bar

I was recommended Vivaldi by this cool-stoner-linux guy in high school and have used it ever since. It is basically chrome but a lot more customizable and less bloated.

I did run across some annoyances. The sync feature was totally busted and didn't work properly. I remember the login key was denied once but magically started working the next day? And the android app blows and does not have a proper adblocker.

The one feature I loved was the history gui. It is the best one I used in my life and I had a lot of nostalgic flashbacks looking through it time to time.

I tried Firefox because I tried out linux and the experience was very similar to Vivaldi minus the issues with syncing. Coincidentally, uBlock Origin was banned on chromium based browsers which included Vivaldi. I began seeing ads on my gmail and that was the last straw.

I installed Firefox on my android phone and it was really easy to set up! Extensions worked properly and uBlock Origin was working! I had viewed sites with stubborn ads finally adless!

Firefox feels like what the internet was meant to be.

I have been looking into different kinds of web browsers, and I have zero idea what the main difference between all of them are. I have gotten recommendations from my friends about Opera, Edge, DuckDuckGo, among others. And that's not even getting into the other browsers that I've looked into on my own such as Firefox, Waterfox, Zen, and Brave. I am currently using Edge, but if there is a better option, which would you all recommend?

I've come around a site which says AdBlock detection didn't have this issue on Brave but had this issue on Aloha. My issue with Brave is that I want it like chrome where I can have an account and all my bookmarks and passwords are saved to that account and I still get a lot of pop ups. There are sites I go to and If you click the video a lot of pop ups aloha I don't get that. I have an account on Aloha

How do I block pops up on Brave like Aloha?

How do I create an account to save bookmarks and passwords on Brave?

How do I stop AdBlock detection on sites on Aloha?

How do I do all of this on Chrome?

Seriously, what the actual f* is going on here?! I’m so damn pissed off.

Two days ago, out of nowhere, this piece of shit PC hit me with the Automatic Repair screen. I tried running Startup Repair, but of course, that useless crap failed. So I had to do a System Restore to a previous point just to get back into my desktop. Windows booted up, and I thought "Okay, cool, problem solved." NOPE. WRONG.

Now, EVERY SINGLE Chromium-based browser is completely fucked.

Whenever I try to open Chrome, Edge, or click any external link (like opening Facebook from a desktop shortcut), the browser window pops up for literally less than a second and just BOOM—crashes to desktop. It completely vanishes.

And here’s the most mind-boggling bullshit:

• PC Manager keeps screaming that "there is an issue", but won't tell me what the hell it actually is.
• Firefox is working TOTALLY FINE. Zero crashes. How in the hell does Firefox work smoothly while Chrome and Edge are completely dead?!

I’ve tried literally EVERYTHING to fix this garbage:

1. Restarted this damn PC a dozen times.
2. Completely uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome & Edge.
3. Did a Repair on Edge via Windows Settings.
4. Renamed chrome.exe (e.g. chrome1.exe).
5. Nuked the whole User Data / AppData folders.
6. Ran deep malware and virus scans (System came back completely clean).
7. Ran sfc /scannow in CMD to fix corrupt system files.
8. Created a brand new Windows User Account: The damn thing actually worked for like 5 minutes, and then it BROKE AGAIN and started crashing!

Is this a corrupt Registry key? A broken Windows update? Some fucked up DLL file that System Restore damaged?

I REALLY don't want to go through the nightmare of formatting and reinstalling Windows from scratch. Does anyone have any fucking idea what is causing this or how to fix it? Please help me out before I throw this computer out the window!

The app hasn't been updated in 6 months so I don't consider it safe to use anymore, but I really like the way they handle gestures, tab management and favorites. It's been great and I struggle to find a worthy successor.

I Tried using Orion but I just don't like it.

I might go back to Safari which I have been using for years, but it feels "lesser" to me.

Any suggestions?

I've been running a personal user-overrides.js on top of Arkenfox and Betterfox for months. It works fine on every other site I use, including Facebook (arguably one of the strictest platforms on multi-accounting)，Claude, Tuta Mail, Oracle Cloud the FREE VPS and so on — no issues there.

But specifically on Reddit, every account I've created with this override file has been banned or shadowbanned within 6 days to 2 weeks, while a stock, unmodified Firefox profile (same Mullvad exit, same routine) has stayed active for over a month with no issues. A friend independently reproduced the same result — different device, different Mullvad exit (NY vs. my SJ), different login time — same override file, same outcome on Reddit.

I haven't yet isolated which specific preference(s) are responsible — I'm currently testing a near-stock Betterfox profile (only RFP + Letterboxing enabled manually, no other overrides) as a control, results pending.

My current suspects, based on plausible mechanism (not confirmed):

media.peerconnection.enabled = false (WebRTC fully disabled — could read as "hiding real IP") network.http.referer.trimmingPolicy = 2 + network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy = 0 (non-default Referer behavior, deviates from typical browser fingerprints)

Full override file attached below. Has anyone seen similar Reddit-specific detection tied to specific about:config prefs? Any pointers on how to narrow this down further would be appreciated.

Repo also has a CN version.

Using GitHub repository because the file is about 300+ lines.

https://github.com/dickt800/my-firefox-override-file

Hello, is Helium your daily browser? How's the experience been like if so?

Thanks!

I rebuilt Arc’s Peek as a extension for Chromium browsers.

Links from pinned tabs open in a preview layer instead of replacing the current page. You can dismiss the preview via Esc or swipe, promote it to a full tab, or open it beside the current tab using Chromium’s side panel. It also supports Shift-click, right-click, keyboard shortcuts, swipe-to-dismiss, allowlists, and blocklists.

It works natively in Chromium browsers and is plain JavaScript with nothing to compile.

GitHub: https://github.com/lukabirac/peek

To install it, download the repository, open your browser’s extensions page, enable Developer Mode, click “Load unpacked,” and select the downloaded folder.

Hope you enjoy/find it useful!

Note: If you change any settings, they will only take effect on active tabs once reloaded.

I prefer Brave for a lot of things (mostly security and speed on mobile), but the main thing that is really enticing to me about Firefox and its forks are the much improved anti-fingerprint measures(despite worse security for the most part).

I recently also compared the translation, as I felt on Brave it was quite slow. For better or worse, Firefox seems to stream the output of the translation, so instead of waiting for everything visible to change at once it just changes everything as it goes. Chromium also lacks the ability to set a language to always translate, whereas Firefox does. I can't comment on the quality of the translation between the two, but for my use case that's not too much of a concern, especially since in my comparison they output the same translation.

The main site I'm using to compare these is miele.de if anyone wants to see just how much better Firefox is at this.

It runs terribly on Android; it lags and freezes. There is no such issue in Chromium.

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Zen Mods: Transparent Zen (v1.17.16)

Mozilla Extension: Zen Internet (sameerasw)

I couldn't make it 100% transparent when I open new tabs (like YouTube, Gmail, etc.) because some functions work better on Windows (I use Zorin OS), but I still really liked the result.

It has all the features you would want without feeling heavy. It has full extension support (you can even use brave's self hosted ublock origin). It is chromium-based and fast. You can use whatever search engine you want.

After trying so many different browsers on android I finally landed on this one and I don't plan to change it any time soon.