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Firefox Focus is great. It's amazing how much better web readability and performance gets when you block most of the adtech garbage.


What exactly is great about firefox focus ? What does it have over installing ublock origins in any other browser ?


Not OP but I find the ad-blocking not to be great, and I'd love to have a JS blocker built in. Focus is nice to have as a "default to privacy mode" option, but I definitely end up missing my addons.


Read the article.


how do you install ublock on android chrome?


- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Volume leveling across applications

- DESCRIPTION: I use headphones every day. I listen to music and podcasts while I work. I use youtube videos and screencasts to learn new things. Sometimes I hop on a VOIP call through one service or the other. The one feature I miss most from Windows Desktop life is the "volume normalization" checkbox in my sound settings. It protects me from opening a new chrome tab and blasting noise into my ears at +30db. It protects me from that guy on the voice call that has his mic level WAY too high. It helps me hear the other guy who can't get his mic above a whisper. Most of all I never have to fiddle with individual application volume levels. Linux Desktops love to crib ideas from Apple, but for some reason they've all ignored this killer feature from 2006.


For reference, this feature is called "Use ambient noise reduction" on macOS and "Reduce Loud Sounds" on the 4th generation Apple TV:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18961 https://help.apple.com/appletv/#/atvba773c3c9


Honestly the verbosity of vanilla js apis just aggravates me.


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