Episode 3:15: A Hot Plate of Hype

Linux User Space

30-01-2023 • 1 hr 21 mins

Coming up in this episode 1. A little podman 2. Manifest v3 3. Browsers 4. More Browsers? 5. And what do you know? More browsers 0:00 Cold Open 1:30 Giving Podman a Whirl 10:14 What's Wrong with a Few Boxes? 18:08 Browser Watch: Firefox 109 22:47 Browser Watch: Manifest v3 History 31:44 Browser Watch: A Little More Manifest v3 40:03 Browser Watch: The Chromium Scrolls 48:24 Browser Watch: A Fix to the Web 56:06 Feedback: Johnny and LinuxGameCast 58:51 Kid3 Turns 20 1:00:39 QR Codes for All! 1:05:22 Community Focus: ASUS NLC 1:09:41 App Focus: Gnome Web + Tangram 1:17:51 Next Time: CentOS 1:20:03 Stinger The video version: https://youtu.be/ZC4IUlCfP1c Banter Podman (https://podman.io/) Podman Desktop (https://podman-desktop.io/) Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops. If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace Firefox 109 (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.0/releasenotes/) brings manifest v3 support What are we talking about? (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/heres-whats-going-on-in-the-world-of-extensions/) Maniwhat, now? Version who? 2018, Google proposes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3NzzhHzc-qnk4w4PX-0XMw8/edit#) Manifest v3. July 2019, The EFF notes. (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-extensions-wont-really-help-security) Then in September of 2019, Firefox responded (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest-v3-faq/) to the Manifest v3 announcement. April 2020, Vivaldi, with version 3.0, debuts its ad and tracker blocker (https://vivaldi.com/blog/1-day-2-big-vivaldi-browser-releases/) as a means to bypass (https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/) the manifest v3 issue altogether. Brave had always had an ad blocker, but beefed up (https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/) its performance and ability in 2019. November 2020, Google finalizes and publishes Manifest v3 (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/). December 2021, The EFF reminds us (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation). uBlock Origin Lite (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4de09330cf3d06194ccc897) exists. More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show Moar Browser Watch Chromium answers Leo's prayers! In 109, Linux scrolling seems to have been fixed (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1270089#c27). He complained about it in Season 2 Episode 16 (https://www.linuxuserspace.show/216). The Bug. (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=521211) ### A fix to the web Brave's been blocking the cookie consent banners (https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices/). Feedback Thanks Johnny (Aromatic Dev) for having the Linux Game Cast (https://linuxgamecast.com/) folks give us a shout. A couple of other topics Kid3 turns 20 (https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/01/kid3-20th-birthday/) qrencode (https://linux.die.net/man/1/qrencode) DuckDuckGo instant answers (https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/instant-answers-and-other-features/) can make QR codes too, just type qr code WHATEVER e.g. qr code https://linuxuserspace.show. Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) Community Focus The ASUS NoteBook Linux Community (https://asus-linux.org/) Their GitLab (https://gitlab.com/asus-linux) App Focus Gnome Web + Tangram Gnome Web (https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Epiphany/) Tangram (https://apps.gnome.org/app/re.sonny.Tangram/) Next Time The history of CentOS (https://www.centos.org/), a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show* Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space Stay tuned and interact with us on Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support! Producer Bruno John Dave Co-Producer Johnny Tim Super User Advait Bjørnar CubicleNate Eduardo S. Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Nicholas Paul sleepyeyesvince