Not sure if this the appropriate place for it but the FOSS communities seemed dead.
This is Bridge - a privacy focused, Firefox AI disabled, Fediverse integrated browser. It has vim navigation via Tridactyl, Bitwarden integration, as well as Ublock integration.
It has an old Firefox RSS feature where you can scan a site for RSS feeds and it will add them to the RSS feed reader.
But the highlight of this is the Mastodon and Lemmy integration. you can have your Mastodon feed displayed in the sidebar on the browser which will give you access to your home, local, and fediverse feeds. you can post, reply, boost, and favourite posts.
The Lemmy extension allows you to see and link directly to lemmy discussions on whatever instance you like (multiple even) if you’re on a site/news article/blog post/whatever. If the extension sees that this has been posted on Lemmy, it will provide you with a direct link to whatever discussions it finds based on the current URL you’re on.
This has been a hobby project of mine for a bit now, It’s very slow development as I have a job and can’t dedicate all the time in the world to this. I wanted to originally build a browser from scratch but realized that would probably take me years so I settled with a fork of firefox.
Currently I believe it only works on Linux and is in a very early alpha. It hasn’t crashed on me yet but visually is a bit rough around the edges.
I just wanted to share this little hobby project I’ve been working on. Thanks!
https://codeberg.org/rozodru/Bridge
UPDATE Since I already got a lot of feedback and more people than anything else wanted the Lemmy Extension as a stand alone extension…I delivered.
You were all correct, the Lemmy Add-on is a bigger deal than the browser. Again this was just a hobby project of mine as I’ve never played around with firefox forks before or extensions/addons for that matter so this is my first time.
Regardless, here it is: https://codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge
NOTE: I have submitted it to Mozilla so it is NOT VERIFIED as of right now, if you want to use it, use it at your own discretion. If it breaks something in whatever fork of firefox you’re using then I take no responsibility.
Again thanks for all the support, appreciate it.
So … Basically just another preconfigured Firefox with extensions?
So…Basically just another negative user with nothing of value to contribute besides a largely unwanted sarcastic comment?
Go ahead and show what you have done
// Enable userChrome.css user_pref('toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets', true); // Warnings user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false); // Style user_pref('browser.tabs.inTitlebar', 0); user_pref('browser.theme.content-theme', 1); user_pref('browser.theme.toolbar-theme', 1); // Extensions user_pref('extensions.activeThemeID', 'firefox-compact-light@mozilla.org'); user_pref('extensions.pocket.enabled', false); user_pref('extensions.screenshots.disabled', true); user_pref('extensions.getAddons.showPane', false); user_pref('extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled', false); // Zoom user_pref('toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues', '.5,.3,1,1.2,1.3,1.5'); user_pref('devtools.toolbox.zoomValue', '1.4'); user_pref('browser.zoom.siteSpecific', false); // Privacy // // Basically do not leak URLs, IPs, etc. to external services user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled', false); user_pref('security.OCSP.enabled', 0); user_pref('browser.contentblocking.category', 'custom'); user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.urlbar.trending.featureGate', false); // DoH explicitly off user_pref('network.trr.mode', 5); user_pref('network.trr.default_provider_uri', ''); // Cookies user_pref('network.cookie.cookieBehavior', 2); // AdBlock user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites', false); // Remove weird URLS user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpConfigURL', ''); user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpRelayURL', ''); user_pref('browser.partnerlink.attributionURL', ''); user_pref('browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl', ''); // Do not track user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.enabled', false); user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.emailtracking.enabled', false); user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.enabled', false); user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled', false); user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled', false); user_pref('privacy.donottrackheader.enabled', true); // Beahvior user_pref('general.smoothScroll', false); user_pref('signon.autofillForms', true); user_pref('signon.firefoxRelay.feature', 'disabled'); user_pref('browser.download.manager.addToRecentDocs', false); user_pref('security.tls.version.min', 1); user_pref('browser.profiles.enabled', false); // UI features // // https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js user_pref('browser.discovery.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.addons', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.features', false); user_pref('browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla', false); user_pref('browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false); user_pref('browser.aboutwelcome.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.uidensity', 0); user_pref('browser.urlbar.trimURLs', false); user_pref('browser.urlbar.showSearchTerms.enabled', false); // Telemetry // // https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js user_pref('datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled', false); user_pref('datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.unified', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.server', 'data:,'); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled', false); user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out', true); user_pref('toolkit.coverage.opt-out', true); user_pref('toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base', ''); user_pref('browser.ping-centre.telemetry', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry', false); user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry', false); user_pref('breakpad.reportURL', ''); user_pref('browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport', false); user_pref('browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2', false); user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false); user_pref('app.normandy.enabled', false); user_pref('app.normandy.api_url', ''); // Disable AI bullshit // user_pref('browser.ml.enable', false); user_pref('browser.ml.chat.enabled', false); user_pref('browser.ml.chat.shortcuts', false); user_pref('browser.ml.chat.sidebar', false); user_pref('pdfjs.enableAltText', false); user_pref('pdfjs.enableUpdatedAddImage', false);
and
and
Do you have a screenshot?
(Screenshots resized due to not wasting too much space.
Here’s a small one of how a website would look like.
Here’s a larger one of how my new tab page looks like (including multiple tabs to show how the tab bar looks like).
Looks pretty clean, maybe a bit dated.
Thanks! I just prefer simple UIs.
Apparently not.
"How does Bridge compare to other privacy browsers?
Bridge goes beyond configuration changes by modifying Firefox at the source code level. This provides deeper privacy protections than browsers that only change settings."