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Web Browsers/Web Servers: Server Side Rendering, Ladybird, and Firefox
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OSTechNix ☛ 3 Ways to Isolate Multiple Browser Profiles on Linux
However, having these profiles run on the same Linux machine with a single fingerprint and one exit IP can quietly link accounts you meant to keep separate. That's where the use of other tools like proxies comes in.
This guide walks through three levels of browser isolation, from lightweight to airtight, including native browser profiles, Firejail sandboxes, and full containers. We will discuss how each method works in detail to help you choose the most appropriate one for your use case.
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Stephen D ☛ Extreme Server Side Rendering
Before we get into extreme server side rendering (XSSR), we have to talk about normal server side rendering (SSR). This comes in two flavours, which I'm calling old-school and new-school.
Old-school SSR involves having a server which uses some logic to create the HTML of the web page on-the-fly. For example, you might hit /users/39, and it might give you the details of user 39. These details might be from a database, or they might come from somewhere else. The important part is there's no corresponding 39.html on the disk. The HTML is created dynamically by the back-end server. On the front-end side, there's no JavaScript or other logic required to render the page. As a result, once the page is loaded, there's no ability for it to be dynamic.
New-school SSR is similar to old-school SSR, but it does involve a bit of front-end JavaScript logic. Generally, the way it's implemented is that when the user will interacts with the web page, the JS will make a request to the back-end. Then, the back-end will return some HTML, and the JS front-end will insert that HTML somewhere into the page. This allows us to have dynamic pages, at the cost of having to maintain some front-end logic.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way?
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The Ladybird Browser Initiative ☛ This Month in Ladybird - August 2026 - Ladybird
Hello friends! In August Ladybird gained video playback on Twitch, more video formats on YouTube, CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging in DevTools, downloads you can pause and resume, and session restore. It’s also the month engine performance went from occasional attention to a sustained focus, with a new style engine, layout caching, and CSS animations moving off the main thread. We added caging for cell pointers stored in JavaScript values, and CSS parsing and the painting pipeline moved to Rust.
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Mozilla
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Tor ☛ New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.22 | The Tor Project
Tor Browser 15.0.22 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ The $200 Firefox mechanical keyboard sold out
Love Firefox enough to drop $200 on a branded keyboard? Tough, it’s sold it. It’s a full-sized, 108-key mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, and has a unique keycap colour scheme and branding: a Firefox logo on the super/meta key and new Firefox mascot Kit on Esc. It works wired, via Bluetooth or 2.4g wireless.
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Mozilla ☛ Firefox Nightly: Motion, Colour, Captions, Kit – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 207
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