Currently reading: The Shining by Stephen King

Make Firefox's vertical tab group headings full sidebar width

Tab groups and vertical tabs are nice, and I'm glad to see Firefox finally get on board with features other browsers have had for a good while now. One thing that's been bugging me, however, is the combo of these two features ⸺ specifically, the tab group labels, into which you can write a group's name, don't stretch to the width of your sidebar.

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An example of browser extensions gone awry

And by "gone awry" I of course mean "turned into malware". At the start of this year I wrote about how not knowing who's in charge of the code running in your browser extensions can lead to those extensions becoming malware behind your back. Well, recently one such elicit campaign turned over four million browsers into spyware.

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Shorts are back in YouTube RSS feeds?

I thought had this bud nipped, but enshittification is everywhere and ruins everything in time. I had a mere six months with my RSS feeds free from the scourge of Shorts, so imagine my surprise and anger when they started showing up again. This time, however, I'm not sure there's a way out.

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Windows 10 is dead; long live Windows 10

As of Tuesday Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Windows 10. Its successor was released four years ago, and by now you (and I) should have made our way to it. Windows 10 is, after all, a decade old, so it's ancient technology at this point. I haven't updated, though, and I don't plan to until I build myself a new PC, and that's whomst knows how far away.

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When overzealous uBlock Origin rules break sites

I'm used to my internet-browsing combination of choice, Firefox and uBlock Origin (uBO), breaking sites. Everyone codes their sites with Chromium in mind, and that's just fine because it covers nearly all browser usage thanks to Google's technically-not-a-monopoly monopoly. In any case, sites not working for me isn't nearly as common as it once was, but it still happens from time to time.

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Dulling bright colors in Gmail

One thing I don't need first thing in the morning or last thing at night is to be visually accosted by emails that include absurdly-colored elements. A couple of the newsletters I subscribe to use ridiculous shades of red-orange, and with my gaming PC and its contrasty gaming monitor and some slightly boosted digital vibrance to make colors pop a bit, scrolling through these newsletters can physically hurt.

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Remove Shorts from YouTube RSS feeds

RSS ain't dead yet, and some of us weirdos use it to keep track of our favorite YouTube channels. Unfortunately, the default RSS feed is full of junk: littered with Shorts and livestreams (active or past), making it quite annoying to sift through to find the proper videos for which we wanted to "subscribe" in the first place.

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