On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:51:39 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 13/09/15 11:32, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 13/09/2015 11:23 AM, Andy Farkas wrote:
>>> Time to stop using Firefox too:
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-gets-built-in-firebox-
>>> advertising-rolling/>>
>> What's a
At 04:40 PM 13/09/2015, rene you wrote:
>That, i.e. fork, appears to me to have been done quite a while ago,
>resulting in the "Pale Moon" browser.
>https://www.palemoon.org/
>But, as the Pale Moon lead developer explains, it's not just a simple
>rebuild of Firefox:
> "Addressing a few
On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 18:50 +1000, David Lochrin wrote:
> > May be time to seriously consider a shift to Linux.
> I've been using it for about 15 years and can recommend it!! The only
> problem I have ever had is with ABC TV streaming and, lately, their
> audio streaming - "any browser you like
On 2015-09-13 10:49 JanW wrote:
> May be time to seriously consider a shift to Linux.
I've been using it for about 15 years and can recommend it!! The only problem
I have ever had is with ABC TV streaming and, lately, their audio streaming -
"any browser you like as long as it's Chrome".
At 06:40 PM 13/09/2015, JanW you wrote:
>Palemoon loads really quickly. I'm going to give it a go.
Netflix still doesn't work in it.
Jan
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Twitter:
On 2015-09-13 19:09 Karl Auer wrote:
> Alternatively you can use wget to first download a list of available
> programs, then download the ones you want using the secret URLs in the list
> :-) [...]
Excellent, thank you!! I'll investigate further later on...
David L.
Tom Worthington wrote:
It would be possible to design these applications so they don't download
> all this extra stuff...
>
You would need to incentivise the page designers. If 90% of your clients
are in cities with fast connections you can chuck all the baggage you want
on the page if it has
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:53:47 +1000, JanW wrote:
> At 06:40 PM 13/09/2015, JanW you wrote:
>
>> Palemoon loads really quickly. I'm going to give it a go.
>>
> Netflix still doesn't work in it.
Seems that's probably caused by Netflix's user agent sniffing. Apparently
Netflix was working in Pale
At 11:34 AM 14/09/2015, Jim Birch you wrote:
>I guess we need a browser addon that fakes a mobile browser on top of an
>adblocker.
That's not a bad idea. Is there such a thing?
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jw...@janwhitaker.com
Twitter:
On 12/09/15 10:29, JanW wrote:
> ... Bloated websites, dragging stuff from all over the place without
> user knowledge ...
Yes, try turning off styles with a page from a social media website and
see all the extra stuff downloaded just in case you might want to look
at it (in Firefox select:
this should be promoted somewhere
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2015/09/13/microsoft-s-windows-10-is-recording-your-voice-and-your-key-strokes-here-s-how-to-turn-it-off
Jan
I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jw...@janwhitaker.com
Realistically what needs to happen is that Microsoft should be forced to
state they are doing this the very first time that you boot into Windows 10.
At that same point, users should be given the option to disable any or all
of these "dial-home" features, preferably with a good description of the
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