Re: [PLUG] a side note on browsers

2024-06-01 Thread Paul Blattner
They are probably the favicons for each bookmark stored as a png in base64 encoding. If you look at the beginning of the hex string you'll probably see it start something like: ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAA... If that's not it, the name of the parameter in the html tag may give a

[PLUG] a side note on browsers

2024-06-01 Thread American Citizen
Hello: Recently (the last 2 weeks) I have noticed a definite slow down in the 2 internet browsers I use (Opera and Firefox) I purposefully timed the start up of Mozilla Firefox this late afternoon, it took over 5 minutes before coming up, which is astonishing. I also tried Opera, it came

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread King Beowulf
On 6/1/24 15:50, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Rich, you are a candidate for: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium >> https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium >> Compile it yourself and you are off to the races. > Ted, > > I

Re: [PLUG] Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated

2024-06-01 Thread Jake Bottero
Exactly. It's either spyware or crapware. On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 15:30 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > This is what I get: > > Generated directory is Verifying archive integrity... 100% SHA256 chec > Uncompressing Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 24.0.4. > = > Running

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Rich, you are a candidate for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium Compile it yourself and you are off to the races. Ted, I recall reading a while ago that Chromium is the source

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Rich, you are a candidate for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium Compile it yourself and you are off to the races. Ted -Original Message- From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2024 7:54 AM

Re: [PLUG] Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated

2024-06-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
So does Lady Gaga: https://www.reddit.com/r/LadyGaga/comments/16gu3q5/13_years_ago_today_lady_gaga_wore_a_meat_dress_to/ That there's malWEARlol Ted -Original Message- From: PLUG On Behalf Of Jake Bottero Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2024 10:25 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group

Re: [PLUG] Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated

2024-06-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
This is what I get: Generated directory is = compver: 24.0.4.0 x86-64 (Apr 12 2024 12:32:49) Product folder qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect t Could not connect to any X display. Hell with that shit. If they can't run from the command line then

Re: [PLUG] Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated

2024-06-01 Thread Jake Bottero
Well, they *do* know something about malwear. On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 10:14 John Bartley wrote: > Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated. > https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/kvrt-for-linux/51375/ > > 73 & best regards de K7AAY CN85oj >

[PLUG] Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated

2024-06-01 Thread John Bartley
Your thoughts on this tool would be appreciated. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/kvrt-for-linux/51375/ 73 & best regards de K7AAY CN85oj

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: As long as you are not using Google's Chrome browser you should be fine. Michael, I've used chromium in the past. The only time I had to use Chrome was for a presentation to a business trade association. Their conference software would not work with

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Ewan
As long as you are not using Google's Chrome browser you should be fine. Any of the other major browsers should work for you, including Brave (even though based on Chrome). As previously mentioned, change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo, and do not create an account at the browser vendor

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

2024-06-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: I'm curious to know what exactly you're trying to about Google? Is it their browser?, their search engine or both? Mike, I find Google to be quite intrusive and I'm at an age where I value the privacies we used to have and try to retain as much of them