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musiuuu February 2 2020, 08:45:09 UTC
My 2 cents is my primary browser is from www.firefox.com;

Then www.opera.com for Facebook;

Then www.vivaldi.com for Livejournal;

And recently there's www.brave.com which uses the Qwant search engine from France "...le moteur de recherche qui respecte votre vie privée."

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browser pigshitpoet February 7 2020, 10:22:56 UTC
dude!
thank you for this. i thought i was running out of options..
why doe you like vivaldi for LJ?
it looks complicated

brave looks simple and straight forward and uses tor
now that's cool

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Re: browser musiuuu February 7 2020, 11:49:24 UTC
Basically, I open a lot of tabs; a few years ago I had nearly 2,000 tabs up in Firefox ( ... )

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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox pigshitpoet February 7 2020, 22:44:44 UTC
LOL ( ... )

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RE: Re: 2000 tabs in firefox musiuuu February 8 2020, 03:21:35 UTC
Vivaldi is just a random browser I adopted to browse and load tabs from Livejournal; I don't do much with it and I don't load many tabs (90 max) as in Firefox. When the tabs get too cluttered I just save them to the OneTab addon (also available on Firefox).

Not sure what is Vivaldi Dynamic Preview - is that a preview thumbnail of the Tab when I hover the arrow over it (that's certainly useful), or is it the window panel with a text list of the loaded tabs? Gotta explore it a little better.
N.B.B. Every so often the PC asks me for permission for Vivaldi to run/install something - Deny! Deny! Deny!

For general info, Firefox also has its own VPN addon; have it installed but haven't used either due to temporary self-imposed suspension of my nefarious ways. https://fpn.firefox.com/


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RE: Re: 2000 tabs in firefox musiuuu February 8 2020, 03:26:58 UTC
Also, "in November 2016, the original Norwegian owner of Opera sold his stake in the business to a Chinese consortium under the name Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership".

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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox pigshitpoet February 8 2020, 10:20:08 UTC
oh shit. i better dump that one.
i don't like china. they're pushing huawei 5G emf total surveillance
blah china
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-link-china-biowarfare-program-possible/

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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox pigshitpoet February 8 2020, 10:24:19 UTC
vivaldi dynamic preview
i guess they call it desktop view, multiple image pockets instead of just text

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-10-no-strings-attached-2/
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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox pigshitpoet February 15 2020, 19:16:14 UTC
i tried vivaldi but it doesn't seem to have a proper ad block, it does somewhat, but not all. it also felt less robust than opera which has a lot of personal settings that can shut off unwanted memory laden features like background images, etc

so i'm back on opera and it is slow loading pages, because i think i chose the vpn option, so now i have to find where to shut that off. but the ad block is excellent on it.

i don't think there seems to be one simple answer. 6 of one half dozen of another... they are either tracking you or blocking you or you are blocking them. take your pick
; P

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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox pigshitpoet February 15 2020, 19:18:42 UTC
i tried vivaldi but it doesn't seem to have a proper ad block, it does somewhat, but not all. it also felt less robust than opera which has a lot of personal settings that can shut off unwanted memory laden features like background images, etc

so i'm back on opera and it is slow loading pages, because i think i chose the vpn option, so now i have to find where to shut that off. but the ad block is excellent on it.

i don't think there seems to be one simple answer. 6 of one half dozen of another... they are either tracking you or blocking you or you are blocking them. take your pick
; P

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Re: 2000 tabs in firefox musiuuu February 15 2020, 20:29:28 UTC
Yeah. I think that sums it up - if it ain't one thing it's the other. 😕

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RE: Re: 2000 tabs in firefox musiuuu February 15 2020, 20:50:32 UTC
Click on the Big "O" in the top left of Opera browser > scroll down to Settings > click on Advanced, then Privacy and security, then turn off VPN.


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more techyum pigshitpoet February 7 2020, 22:53:54 UTC
have you come across steemit recently
something new i assume. don't know much about it, except that it monetizes your web activities.
https://steemit.com

core umbrella, underdeveloped
https://steem.com

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RE: more techyum musiuuu February 8 2020, 03:46:10 UTC
Looks like another social network type thing; on my ever growing list of tabs to explore 😲

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Re: more techyum pigshitpoet February 8 2020, 23:56:20 UTC
hey, when i tried to install brave, my puter told me it can't (won't) verify the source of the app, only apple store qualified crap, so it would install. do you know of a setting to allow brave to work on mac or should i be concerned that brave is not a safe browser?
; O

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Re: more techyum musiuuu February 9 2020, 00:12:50 UTC
Sorry, am not Mac familiar only PCs. But I'll check to see if you can override to let it install.

Normally, I would defer to Apple, or MS as the case might be, but I think they just didn't get their commission. Based on my limited experience and knowledge, it's safe; it works alright on Windows 10, and I've run anti-virus and malware scans since installation without any alerts or warnings. It might be just very clever.

P.S. If you're looking for more browsers don't install Opera Neon - it stops working and can't get uninstalled despite using built-in uninstaller and 3 other popular uninstallers. 😞

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