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Episode: 4384
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Title: HPR4384: Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4384/hpr4384.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:02:09
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4384 for Thursday the 22nd of May 2025.
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Today's show is entitled Browser and Dedicated Apps on the Mobile Phone.
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It is hosted by Henry Cameron and is about two minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, the traditional browser can reduce the number of dedicated apps on the
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Smart Mobile Phone.
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q.
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We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
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This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive.
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Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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Welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
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My name is Henley Kamlin and I'm your host today.
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Recently I had a discussion on Mustodon about mobile phone applications.
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The other person stated the web belongs to web browsers.
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I agreed to it as a general good approach.
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Some dedicated apps cannot be substituted with the browser, but some can.
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I do not have so many apps myself, but anyway this statement got me to review a couple of my apps
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how they work in the Firefox browser.
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And actually I could delete three apps and all functions I needed from them
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can be managed from Firefox.
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Beside traditional bookmarks those pages can be pinned to the Firefox Start page
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or placed like a web app on the screen so they look like an ordinary mobile phone app.
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Using the Firefox browser makes it easier to control the privacy.
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In addition to what is built into Firefox, I currently also have the two extensions
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privacy badger and u-block origin in my Firefox browser.
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Brief side privacy and in general to be somewhat more in control,
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this approach also reduces a number of apps to keep updated and reduce storage need.
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Sometimes apps are necessary or otherwise beneficial,
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but I think the traditional browser should not be forgotten also on the smart mobile phone.
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Thank you for listening, take care and goodbye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, you click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it really is. Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com,
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the internet archive and our syncs.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons,
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Attribution 4.0 International License.
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