Hi all!

Which web browser do you prefer to use when accessing or admining your internal resources and why?

Here’s why I think Konform Browser¹ can be especially interesting for self-hosters and accessing internal services:

By default and under “Purely Private” preset, practices complete “radio silence”: Will not use any external third-party services or initiate network connections in the background on its own.

So for a fully airgapped setup, it means less spam in the logs about failed requests. Otherwise, it can bring peace of mind to know that no metadata about internal resources and activity are inadvertently leaking. Maybe you can even start logging DNS queries or turn up firewall monitoring granularity without all that noise ;)

It also comes with container tabs built-in. So for example I can set up a designated container for an internal domain, and force that to use a separate proxy configuration. Or maybe for a primarily internal setup you might still want an “escape hatch” proxied via Tor or VPN and use separate container tab for that.

Speaking of proxies, it’s less “leaky” than usual Firefox or Chromium browsers. More straightforward to have it consistently use a proxy or even use your own CA for TLS trust, without compromising on base security.

It also makes it easier to configure and use your own self-hosted endpoints for browser features like (Firefox) Sync, Accounts, RemoteSettings, geolocation, “AI” functionality, should you want to enable them.

Building from source is ofc supported. There is also repos with binary packages for deb/rpm/arch/alpine and a basic container image all transparently built in Codeberg CI.

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¹: Am dev. Is Firefox ESR fork. You can stalk my post history for little past general discussion on other threadiverse communities ^^