On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 15:11 +, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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> > The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine.
> > Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking. As
> > such, it is very
On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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> The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine.
> Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking. As
> such, it is very fast indeed. It will also import your Chrome profile.
>
>
Hi Tom,
Not what you asked, but Chrome no longer supports
ad blockers to "enhance the user experience". In
other words, to more effectively collect data/spy
on you.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/31/2110257/google-struggles-to-justify-why-its-restricting-ad-blockers-in-chrome
The
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
> had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in
> order to make fonts look better when fedora was going
> through a long "spindly" phase for fonts):
>
> ...[snip]...
>
>
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web
> font with all the characters in a string mostly on top
> of one another, but only for my user.
>
> See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald
>
> If I create a completely new user,
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 20:38:31 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome
> google-chrome will get information? Because something
> about my user screws it up even when I try to start
> from scratch with no saved profile.
Amazing! I actually found it.
Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web
font with all the characters in a string mostly on top
of one another, but only for my user.
See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald
If I create a completely new user, log out and log back
in as new user, google-chrome works. That web
