I'm excited to release Just the Browser!

[scoopex@mastodon.social]

@corbin Great project. Thanks. A great improvement might be to have the implementation in a Ubuntu/Debian package and to activate the Configuration by installing this package.

[momentum@social.tchncs.de]

@corbin nice work 👍

[clayote@peoplemaking.games]

@Adam_Howard @corbin It's already there. I just ran it on Mint 22.2. It's just a shell script.

[mycroft@meow.social]

@corbin I got a chance to look at this and wow, it's really just that simple? I'm going to throw a copy of the Firefox .json file, text instructions, and link for updates in my "list of things to do after a reinstall to make the OS and apps behave" workflow

[miguelguerreiro@ecoevo.social]

@corbin Will try later. Crazy that we have to start doing this...

[onabi@social.tchncs.de]

@corbin

Great easy way to get rid of AI in my firefox instances, thank you!

1 criticsim about the homepage:
It is not transparent, that the browser download links redirect to google/mozilla/microsoft servers with their original versions. Some naive users may think, it would be sufficient to (re-)download one of the browsers without copying the script.
So I don't share that link to non IT-affine people.

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@tadbithuman
Inhowfar is Vanadium on Graphene problematic?
(Using it, too)

@corbin

[lxsameer@mastodon.social]

@corbin Question: Have you removed anything that something like librewolf didn't already?

[tadbithuman@mastodon.social]

@corbin Thank you!

[cykelero@mas.to]

@corbin That’s a really cool resource!
Curious about Safari’s absence. Is it because there’s not much you’d change, or is it because it’s not easy the changes are hard to make?

[lasse@c.im]

@corbin cool project! FYI your 'create an issue' link points to the wrong repo

[corbin@toot.community]

@onabi I can probably add a sentence reminding people to run the script after downloading, yeah

[corbin@toot.community]

@lxsameer I don't think so, but I haven't used LibreWolf recently so not 100% sure

[corbin@toot.community]

@lasse Thanks, fixed that!

[corbin@toot.community]

@Cykelero I haven't checked if Safari has any useful options hidden behind management policies. There's also less of a need for forced settings because AFAIK it doesn't quietly revert your settings later, like Edge does.

[cykelero@mas.to]

@corbin Makes sense. Thank you for making this!

[brammeehan@ohai.social]

@corbin Is there a way to confirm that it’s been installed correctly and is working?

[corbin@toot.community]

@BramMeehan Yep, you can go to about:policies in Firefox or chrome://policy/ in Edge/Chrome to see all the active group policies

[brammeehan@ohai.social]

@corbin Great — thanks much for the response and for making this!

[corbin@toot.community]

@BramMeehan glad it helped!