Web browser

• 19 January 2023
• digital living

Setting up the browser
I use Firefox as the search browser, then go through and make these changes. You can go to about:preferences, search the bold.

• New Windows and Tabs: I set new tabs and new windows to a blank page, this has helped me so much to be able to think. If I need to think, open a new tab. It’s just a blank page with a search bar. This with keywords you don’t need recommendations and it’s just one less thing with too many options.
• Enhanced Tracking Protection: I changed this to custom and the cookies dropdown to "Cross-site tracking cookies, and isolate other cross-site cookies and literally haven’t encountered a single problem at all. This is honestly basically what you would assume standard claims to be per Firefox. If you search for it,
• Search Engine: DuckDuckGo

Tabs I always have opened and pinned

• Youtube - I think a lot of people miss out on how much good stuff is on Youtube. Here is a list of people I’m subscribed to, covering a range of topics. You can go to youtube and search up the channel name here to find them.

  View Channels

  • General science and engineering
    • 3Blue1Brown
    • CGP Grey
    • Veritasium
    • Colinfurze
    • Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
    • Real Engineering
    • SciShow
    • Stuff Made Here
    • Wendover Productions
  • Computer Science and development
    • Computerphile
    • mCoding
    • Robert Miles
    • sentdex
  • General Awesomeness
    • vlogbrothers
    • hankschannel
    • John's Channel
    • Tom Scott
    • Mike Boyd
    • SmarterEveryDay
    • Technology Connections
  • News
    • LastWeekTonight
    • Philip DeFranco
  • Civil Engineering and city design
    • Practical Engineering
    • City Beautiful
    • Not just bikes
  • Mathematics
    • Stand-up Maths
    • Up and Atom
  • Legal
    • LegalEagle
  • General Technology
    • Linus Tech Tips
  • Medicine
    • Chubbyemu
  • Crypto
    • Coffeezilla
  • VR
    • ThrillSeeker

• Proton Mail
• Proton Calendar
• Asana

Extensions
I keep Bitwarden and Ublock Origin pinned

• Bitwarden
• Ublock Origin
• AcitivtyWatch
• Gnome shell integration

Bookmarks (Bold are folders)

• Learning
  • I have a lot of stuff specific to me, but the key point is having a bookmark folder for learning
• Finance
  • Saving (This is a great resource)
  • Banking folder
    • Banks to log into
  • Investing folder
    • Investing firms (like Vanguard)
  • Apartment web portal
• Key Words (If you’ve never heard of this, read this)
  • github, this is just my personal repo, so that I don’t go to the github overview page, which I personally do not like.
  • amazon this just goes to my Amazon order history instead of the amazon front page, because I hate it
  • yt this is just youtube
  • maps this is just google maps with it set as my house for the starting spot
  • Profiles (this searches about:profiles, if you’ve never heard of this, read this)
  • photos this is just google photos
  • aw this is just activitywatch
• Etc
  • Browser init (If I ever do have to restart my browser and my tabs aren’t remembered, these are the tabs I always want open basically)
    • YouTube
    • Google Calendar
    • Google Drive
    • Google Gmail
    • Asana
  • Firefox
    • Firefox Relay
    • Firefox Monitor
  • Archive
    • Food
      • Granola Bars
      • Cold Sesame Noodle
      • Instant Pot
        • Shredded Chicken Tacos
        • Chicken and Rice
        • Honey Garlic Chicken
  • Tom Thumb
  • Texting

Notes:

• Something else that I do is customize my toolbar. I made my search bar one long bar, and removed any extension that I didn’t need to the right to an overflow tray. Customize toolbar is the last option if you right click any extension icon or the refresh button.
• This is pretty cheap, but since I have adblock, if you have a google account you don’t care about, open youtube in a container, sign into that google account, and listen to music there. Now, Youtube only recommends music, and it’s honestly pretty good. The one thing you might need to do is if you accidentally watch an actual video, go to your browsing history and delete it.

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