Ah, nice post, thank you… So you’re on team Librewolf too?
What are your thoughts on Mulvad?
Edit: Ah nevermind, I think that’s not built like normal browsers at all
I use several different browsers:
Firefox
Librewolf
Ungoogled Chromium
Mullvad Browser
TOR
in the order of usage.
Mullvad Browser is basically TOR without the Onion routing. It has the same hardening and fingerprint resistance. While TOR has only NoScript as addon, Mullvad has two more, uBlock Origin and Mullvad VPN. The latter can be disabled if one doesn’t use VPN from Mullvad. You could use it with another VPN or nothing at all. I find it to be a very good browser.
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Well I appreciate the two of you guys posting, while I’m very much into chrome I did give librewolf another shot despite not having KDE Window styles applied to Librewolf. Something to figure out today while I wait for my laptop to arrive.
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Ofc, here you go:
- uBlock origin for the usual on device add blocking - for everything that manages to circumvent DNS-based add filtering. Important: Use at last medium mode
- Canvas Blocker - while the natural fingerprinting resistance of LibreWolf is superior (it does basically the same, but is not a plugin, so inherently more secure), activating it means some loss of usability (mainly the loss of darkmode), so I stick with the add-on
- LocalCDN - so no steady reloading of - for example - google fonts, because of reasons which where mentioned already
- LibRedirect - for the occasional visits of youtube, twitter and co
- Skip Redirect - to avoid malicious redirects, which are only used for tracking purposes - do not want.
- Plasma Integration - I use KDE, btw.
My user.js is just stuff to change the look of certain elements of LibreWolf.
It’s a pretty terrible list. Has MuseScore on it, and no LilyPond. So yeah, a 
-tier list.
Have you tried setting the GTK application style through KDE’s System Settings (Appearance → Application Style)? It should be consistent then.
I recently switched from a tiling window manager to KDE Plasma. After years of auto tiling, the manual tiling wasn’t good enough for me. So I looked around and found Bismuth, a plugin to enable automatic tiling with some additional settings and control. It’s in the AUR, so easy to install: yay kwin-bismuth
Settings can be found in “Window Management” > “Window Tiling”. It even has similar window layouts I know from Qtile and I can switch between them. Some of my keyboard shortcuts for “Kwin” are setup similar to how I was used to it. It’s amazing how configurable and flexible KDE is. The only thing I miss is my configuration file directly programmed in Python…
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In the last two years, I have practically not installed any new useful utilities or other programs on EOS. My experience is that less and less innovative software is being developed for desktop operating systems, including Linux, compared to, say, ten or fifteen years ago, the focus has shifted to software developed for mobile platforms. What do you think about this?
Foung another kwin-tiling manager called polonium. But I haven’t installed it myself yet and haven’t tested it either
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Recently I have been enjoying the very excellent ugrep, which is a blazing fast and insanely featureful grep replacement. It almost has too many features, you really can get lost just reading through all the options.
They have recently added this very cool TUI mode for interactive queries. Neat!
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For me, it’s the text editor Lite XL. It is the right balance of light and feature-rich and I am really enjoying the use. I am absolutely hooked on vim and being without it makes me feel like sitting down to a Thanksgiving meal and can’t find a fork. Especially without my usual keyboard. But as an alternative, it’s very hard to find a better text editor program. I highly recommend it
An honorable mention is Distrobox. It may not be quite as useful to an Arch user but still you gotta admit it is pretty slick.
That’s all for my recent discoveries and thanks for a great thread! Cheers!
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Great find. I am super satisfied with Bismuth and won’t try it out. Looking in the documentation, it seems not to support all layouts I would want to have. But whats more important note, Polonium is only developed and supported on Wayland. And I use X11 (which should work according to them, but not tested).
BTW years ago before I switched from KDE entirely to a standalone tiling window manager, I had the previous standard extension Krohnkite. It wasn’t perfect unlike Bismuth. And then I experimented replacing Kwin itself entirely with i3. That is something possible in KDE, but the Frankenstein build was a bit too Frankensteiny.
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$ date
I never know what day is it … miss the garbage man … miss the recycle bin man … miss the compost man …
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yes
I’m the same, luckily I live in a unit complex and my neighbours always drag the bins up the driveway which lets me know
Yakuake, it’s based on Konsole but as drop-down terminal emulator from the top of the screen.
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That’s a good trick, I’ll ask them to be more aggressive 
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Arch update counter - plasma widget
AUR link, install with yay -S kdeplasma-arch-update-notifier-git
It’s a small widget that counts your available Arch & AUR packes with many customization options:
The developer is very friendly and open to suggestions.
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