gtk3-mushrooms VS user.js

It is not about KDE/Breeze, from what I have read, the issue is with GTK(3.) One fix, not 100%, but almost pefect fix is to switch out GTK3 with GTK3-Classic.

GTK3 does indeed suck. That's why I run it with these patches.

Unfortunately they also lost tons of functionality in the process. The fact that typing on a file picker starts a recursive search instead of simply jumping to the file/folder with the prefix you typed, is nothing short of hilarious.

Gtk-classic is the only thing that keeps me sane https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic

The KDE Server-Side Decoration is also really powerful, allowing easy Maximize Horizontally/Vertically, window shading/hiding, and moving windows between virtual desktop/workspace, all while being able to be hidden when maximized for that extra screen space when I'm on my old 768p laptop and why I use gtk3-classic to get that SSD. Also, Window Rules -- they're very, very handy to get windows and apps to start and behave in a certain way by default.

I highly recommend gtk3-classic.

It's a bug when it stalls out your computer for 2-3 seconds because the file picker is doing a recursive search through all of your files.

Luckily, the patches that fix this (along with some other bugs and anti-features) are actively maintained by community members, despite being ignored by the GNOME project.

https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic

gtk3-classic will move them out of the titlebar, but if you want them completely gone you're better off switching to applications that haven't fully embraced CSDs like Gedit.

The GTK3 filechooser is the reason I switched to gtk3-classic.

Use gtk3-classic.

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.