Surfingkeys vs web-bugs

Surfingkeys

Map your keys for web surfing, expand your browser with javascript and keyboard. (by hbt)

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web-bugs

A place to report bugs on websites. (by webcompat)

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Surfingkeys		web-bugs
	Project
1	Mentions	356
8	Stars	715
-	Growth	0.6%
4.0	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
JavaScript	Language
MIT License	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Surfingkeys

Posts with mentions or reviews of Surfingkeys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-30.

Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2021

I use and forked SurfingKeys on Chrome https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys
Calling tridactyl a replacement for vimperator ignores all the features and extensive customization available through the old Firefox API.

web-bugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of web-bugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.

Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA string sniffing
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024

The thread is very long, here is the relevant comment:
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...
Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%...
Microsoft Teams (which I don't think many people use voluntarily) in particular breaks in stupid ways - and then in others if you spoof your user agent.
"This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser. (Error #4000) " on twitch with new laptop
1 project | /r/firefox | 2 Nov 2023

a link to the video would help with troubleshooting, seems like another case of "this site or this particular feature doesn't support firefox" otherwise report to https://webcompat.com/
Hamrobazaar not opening in Firefox
2 projects | /r/technepal | 11 Sep 2023

Have any of you faced this? If the website is made to open only in chromium-based browsers, I am planning to report to Webcompat. But before that, I thought I would make sure from others. Any experience or quick fix would be appreciated.
Web-bugs: A repo used by the Web Compatibility community to track issues
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023

Teams was a classic hellhole for me when I was using Linux. Nowadays it lets you in but Firefox genuinely doesn't support all of the features the Teams site uses. This means certain features are made unavailable to Firefox users. Forcing the user agent makes some of these partially work but they are also still broken so Mozilla doesn't want to enable a user agent override by default and Microsoft doesn't want to enable a feature that only half works.
This GitHub WebCompat issue serves as a good example history https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/77892
Firefox: WhatsApp Web cannot paste text?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125920#issuecom...
Copy-paste broken on WhatsApp on Firefox
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2023
🐛 O bug que "quebrou" o Whatsapp 🐛
1 project | dev.to | 18 Aug 2023
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2023

having recently looked at a firefox performance regression for filing a bugreport, tooling that tracks performance (quite publicly) sees attention, easy upload to share tracing profiles also helps: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/perfdocs/ind...
Their dedicated blog keeps you posted if firefox perf is your interest https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/
If you have a particular website you notice chromium being significantly faster with, for an easy report, there's https://webcompat.com/ - though bugzilla is better than it seems when coming from github issues

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Surfingkeys and web-bugs you can also consider the following projects:

profiler - Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis

firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)

temp_librewolf_prefpane - temporary repository to share librewolf built with the prefpane

privacytests.org - Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.

icecat-win64

stealth - :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy

Fenix - ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

standards-positions

uMatrix-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

web-codecs - WebCodecs is a flexible web API for encoding and decoding audio and video.

iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser