Browser De-Slop

18 points | by cullumsmith an hour ago

10 comments

  • purpleflame1257 7 minutes ago

    "Allegedly, these policies are also supported on Windows via Group Policy and MacOS using plist files. I wouldn’t know, since I use a real operating system."

    Real 2006 Slashdot energy here. Very rare to see in the wild these days.

      cullumsmith a minute ago

      There are some wandering sages who still practice the old ways.

  • gampleman 6 minutes ago

    Anyone know where to put the policy file on MacOS? And can you do this even on a corporate machine?

      cullumsmith 2 minutes ago

      I think most people use an enterprise MDM like JAMF or Intune, but manually creating the file at /Library/Managed Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist might also work.

  • crassus_ed an hour ago

    Or just use LibreWolf. I've been using it for quite a while now and it has been great.

  • blkhawk 11 minutes ago

    I concur with the misuse of the word "slop". But this is almost exactly how i setup my browser anyway and since I only do that on once i am nor sure how useful this is actually... maybe for setting up systems for others?

      coldpie a few seconds ago

      Yeah, I was gonna say. These are reasonable defaults for a technical user and I do much of the same, but it's also reasonable for many users to want the features that are being disabled here. It's not slop just because the author personally does not want them.

      cullumsmith 8 minutes ago

      I find it most useful for a shared family computer with multiple users, but I also appreciate any type of config-as-code where possible

  • xnx 18 minutes ago

    One man's bloat is another man's feature.

    (Sidenote: Over/misuse of the word "slop")

  • scarylooking 42 minutes ago

    “I wouldn’t know, since I use a real operating system.” aaaand stop reading there. No thanks.