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:
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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.
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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.
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