My Journal
Monday 12 October 2026
10.20am
So, let me first say that LibreWolf is a very decent browser. Maybe it’s just old, crotchety me stuck in his Netscape Navigator ways (OK, thats not totally true since a lot of features I rely on now where not around in Netscape), but things did pop up that have led me back to Brave… for now.
So the pro’s are still there: The install on Debian 13 was simple, it is clean, familiar and renders sites with minimal issues. Bookmark import from Brave was a piece of cake and setting up a default profile was easy.
But there are enoough cons now that have pushed my back to Chromium-based web browsers. The biggest one (and again this might be an easy fix but it hasn’t been apparent to me yet) is that everytime I close the browser I ahve to log into my web sites. I looked in settings and nothing that I wouldn’t already have checked isn’t. That’s the biggest issue. I also noticed that some pages I have to consistently manage the WebGL context creation (and that took me a minute to figure out what and where it was). This wouldn’t be that big of an issue but it appears to be per web site, not browser profile specific. Also, I have some local hosted servers and sites that do not require https (only accessible locally) but because they are http only, they no longer work. Again, that is kind of a deal breaker.
But honestly, other than those, it’s a solid browser… but those features are all things that unless I spend time to figure out it they can be permanently resolved will keep me from using LibreWolf.
So I have used Chrome, Vivaldi, FireFox, Brave, LibreWolf, Konqueror and Opera. I plan on looking at some others, but unless it is a earth shattering game changer, I feel like Brave checks all the boxes for me.
Friday 2 October 2026
12.07pm
Been trying various browsers the past month. I have been really trying to get away from anything Google related, which eliminates quite a few browser options (Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and obviously Chrome) and while I am not a huge fan of Gecko (Firefox) I decided to give a browser based on that a shot.
It’s called LibreWolf. It uses Gecko rather than Chromium and removes/changes a lot of Mozilla telemetry and integration. The install on Debian 13 was simple, it is clean, familiar and so far, renders pretty much every site I use/visit with no issues. Bookmark import from Brave was a piece of cake, installing extensions (so far I have just installed my Proton Pass extension) was smooth sailing, and setting up a default profile (in case I want to sync later) was easy.
So for right now, it is my default browser on my Debian 13 desktop.
Monday 14 September 2026
11.58am
Not sure anyone actually reads this. Probably not. So really, getting wrapped around the axle about how much I post here finds me realizing I need to chill… doesn’t matter.
I have and active, anonymous blog that I can pretty much open myself up to as well as other sites I contribute to that leave posting here pretty much for the ragged refuge left over! 😆
I am also off and running in pursuit of my master’s degree, so I’ll be doing lot’s of reading, lot’s of writing, and spending the free hours I have absorbed with all that.
Seriously considering backing off some of my self-hosted projects. I have decommissioned a few services I really just did not use or need and even took one server completely offline as it was using up space, electricity, and adding to the heat issue in my small apartment. Three existing servers running that I could probably get down to two. Maybe one if I offload onto one of my remote VPS hosts.
Some thing to think about.
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