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Browsers: Clutter to declutter

I'm starting to regret opening this Pandora's Box of reconsidering my browser choices.

Re (previous post): Browsers and life choices

Instead of using one browser to rule them all, my life is now scattered across half a dozen browsers: Firefox, LibreWolf, Min, Amfora, Bombadillo and offpunk. I mean it's fine, nobody is getting hurt, but also what the actual fuck lol. That's not even counting the ones on my other devices.

I'm comforting myself with the idea that this is like the time I konmaried my home and there was shit everywhere for weeks. The house looked like a hoarder palace, but I swear I wasn't a hoarder. I just somehow had a lot of kipple and a chaotic organisation system that got upended when it came time to take stock and thank things for their service.

Eventually, we whittled down our possessions to just the ones that sparked joy. I hope the same thing will happen with my browsers. I'm loving the terminal browsers, but smolnet may be heavily biasing my feelings. And I'm liking Min as a GUI browser, except its in-built darkmode is not yet enough to withstand the wider web's lack of respect for it. Userscripts seem like a good way to get around that, though there's still a bright flash of non-dark fairly often. I'd love it if Dark Reader could just become standard functionality across GUI browsers.

LibreWolf is a comfort right now, as it runs Dark Reader. Firefox and I are so ready to part ways, but my bread-and-butter work sometimes involves embedded charts in Google Docs, which LibreWolf struggles to render. At some point we'll say our goodbyes and it'll be beautiful, but until then, we are finding ways to get along.

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