The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.
Well dont use chrom*
I use ungoogled chromium, but only for sites that absolutelly don’y wanna work on firefox.
I’m surprised. I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time. I haven’t even had to install chromium as a backup in almost two years now.
Just yesterday I had shadow.tech’s Cloudflare “vErIFY yOuR hUmAN” fail on me in Firefox. I had fucking paid for a month already otherwise that would have been enough to turn me off.
This always happens to me. How can one get around that (without using chrom*)
They are out there. I also have it around for those occasions. More common that you’d expect. Almost always some shitty site needed for work that has problems.
Yeah my previous I remember needing chromium. It was a dev shop though, so we figured out browser agnostic processes eventually.
Proxmox, when connected to a host, will not see symbols and instead type the numbers instead (shift+1 etc). But it will still type a character, and it’s hidden from the user, so you end up screaming WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT until you try to sudo in fucking chrome and whoop works first try.
Found that like 9 months ago. Still pissed as fuck. Like 2h of my life gone, thought I fucked my root account, fucking pissing myself trying to copy data off before I do anything in case I was fucked.
PM needs to fix their shit.
E: Oh, cpanel recently broke too. I can login, but am immediately logged out because lack of a security token. That one might be because I’m using librewolf, but it was working a month ago so…
E2: synology, both nas and router, works sometimes in LW, but other times it loads the page but no content. This is regardless of if I am logged in and refresh, or if I’m just trying to login. Shit just doesn’t reliably work. Chrome, it’s fine.
I don’t want to be that guy but it works for me. I use Proxmox all the time in Librewolf.
With symbols in your VMs passwords?
You guys are doing passwords?
Anyway I’ve never had issues with symbols but I also don’t have a international keyboard. (Mine is US layout)
I’m taking an online based college that makes heavy use of some heavier apps like web based virtual machines that function as ‘lab environments’ for development assignments. These refuse to function unless I’m in chromium of some kind. Same with the online based proctoring tools the school uses when you take tests n stuff - chrome is the only browser that can be used, and I have to specifically use a windows device 🤢
Always fun to see what I’ve been “missing out on” in the chrome experience, when I’m forced to use it. Man, the Firefox UX is a dream compared to chrome!
Really hoping on that FOSS browser that’s on the horizon! Ladybird, I think it’s called? Hopefully it won’t be shit! 🤞
I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time.
Me too…mostly? But the cases I’ve seen or encountered are always government, financial, education, or medical websites with some super-bespoke “portal” that will simply act bizarre on Firefox.
It really sucks that it seems so common to just glance at some “market-share” data and, not just assume everybody must use Chrome, but go so far as to force them to.
I actually use chromium to do watch party’s. As you can disable hardware acceleration and for some reason the Netflix DRM doesn’t work anymore. (So I can stream the video to friends on dc)
But otherwise I never had problems with Firefox.
Same but I use Cromite or i try using a electron app (like heroic) on my pc.
The signal community should band together and write a signal client that doesn’t use the waste of space called electron. There is a rust library for signal and slint for cross platform UIs. Slint is even working (slowly) on mobile targets
There already is one called Flare. It uses rust IIRC.
Thanks. I’ll have a look at this!
Non-flatpak🤮 link: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
What’s wrong with Flatpak? I like the separation of system packages with the system package manager, and user-level random apps on Flatpak.
If you like it then use it, but let’s not pretend everyone else likes it and link to Flathub instead if project site.
Yeah 100% agree you should link to the project site, not Flathub.
Chrom, grant me my RAM…and if you do not listen, then the hell with you!
Firefox saves its config outside of .config/ as well, IIRC. Can’t check now, I have actually put that crappy browser in the trash bin long ago.
I will not take this bait
Yes. ~/.mozilla. Its annoying.
You can fix it with a hack by putting a shell script in your path (before the original firefox) that consist of:
#!/bin/sh HOME='/home/engywuck/.local/share/firefox' /usr/bin/firefoxCall that instead of the original firefox from now on. it will create the “librewolf” folder in ~/.local/share and chuck its junk in there.
Edit: This bug has been open for TWENTY YEARS.
Honestly ridiculous.
And what browser are you using?
Usually the shit-talkers use some fork of FF that would last about 5 minutes if FF ceased to exist.
Or fucking Brave, the cryptoscam browser.
Yea, not a huge fan of the push for crypto on brave
For what it is worth the Flatpak version doesn’t have this issue
Thats because flatpaks treat each apps directory as their own $HOME so instead of $HOME/.mozilla its $HOME/.var/app/{app_name}/.mozilla
Which is still fantastic dont get me wrong. But Mozilla hasn’t stopped hardcoding their Mozilla folder instead of the xdg dirs even throughf firefox issue tracker has had it on there for 20 years
Better than dumping into ~/
I don’t get why so many programs do this. This is ridiculous
Often they were created before the XDG spec was widespread, and haven’t been changed for backwards compatibility reasons or because nobody’s been willing to change it.
Archwiki has a huge list of apps that do this with instructions on how to force them to not do this. You might find it useful.
Personally though, I’ve given up on wrangling stubborn apps and just use flatpak and docker for everything. It can’t crap in your ~/ if it doesn’t have access to it!
When I use a computer for a few months my ~/ always gets so “messy”, I hate it!
I really need work on better use of containers
So much this. It’s like these clowns don’t read the XDG directory spec and think
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEand$XDG_DATA_HOMEare interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.I’m not a fan of
~/.local/share/being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it’s definitely where regular data belongs.Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a
$HOMEdotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.Rant over. :)
Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does
I think the best practices on Windows are pretty similar to Linux, other than Windows usually using title case whereas Linux usually using lowercase. There’s bad developers on both platforms :)
Windows equivalent to XDG_CONFIG_DIR is %appdata%, which is the roaming AppData directory.
I was thinking more of one product companies using a
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Boop Snoot Partners, Inc/<Software Name You Remember Installing>/convention, which seems to be the norm insideAPPDATA%.But I take your point. 😊
I see that in some cases on Linux, for example JetBrains IDEs use paths like
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/JetBrains/Rider2024.1. I agree that it’s more common on Windows though!I don’t mind it with companies that produce multiple products, as nesting them does make sense.
But for one-hit-wonders it’s a bit… 😬
Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir
Well, Firefox is pretty special 🤡
This is why I use flatpaks. Keeps most of the offending the dotfiles in .var directory scoped to the app itself
No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.
This is why so many people have a separate git repository for their config files and a scripts that symlinks or copies those files into the actual
~/.config.
IntelliJ IDEA runs on a jvm right not a electron app??
I think it might still be dropping executables in .config, stuff like the JDK or even its own software versions
Ohhh okay, this is what the answer I was looking for.
Yes mostly Java and Kotlin with a combination of Java Swing and Compose for the GUI afaik
It’s Java but don’t be afraid, nowadays it also runs a chromium browser for your Markdown needs! a few years earlier it was done without that, but if course they had to fuck that up
Ohhh
I like how electron shit’s “configurations” are also trash
You’d think they would do better. Isn’t that part of the point of using Electron?
Apps I write put config files in
XDG_CONFIG_HOME/appname/, which is usually~/.config/appname/. What’s wrong with that?1GB of files is not configuration.
Oh I see, the problem is misusing it for stuff that isn’t configuration, yeah that makes sense now.
Thats how its supposed to be, but if your config dir is tens of megabytes large, you’re doing something wrong
