On 2018-10-23 1:34 p.m., VanguardLH wrote:
SilverSlimer wrote:

On 2018-10-23 1:58 a.m., freemantle wrote:
Firefox locks up where Chrome (I do not like Chrome) does not.

This happens on a Win XP Pro and a Windows 7 PC.
Latest version for both OS.

The red form close [X] only gives a box that DOES NOT CLOSE Firefox !
I have to use another program to kill FireFox.

Junk !

Then Seamonkey turns into a SLUG !

Can't they write code ?

If I try to post on Mozilla they block this post !

Any solutions, like a better free browser and newsgroup reader ?

You can always use Brave which is developed by the guy who originally
created Mozilla (Brendan Eich). He was kicked out of Mozilla for
donating to an organization which believed in traditional families
(unthinkable in this day and age where dressing up as a dog for sexual
gratification is normal).

A dislike of Brave is that its author has an inbuilt adblocker but
deliberately lets paying advertisers get through. Guess Eich wasn't
making enough money at Mozilla, so he came up with a revenue-generating
model for a web browser. He also jumped ships moving from Gecko/Quantum
(Firefox) to Blink (Chromium).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_...ical_reception
https://arstechnica.com/information-...ds-by-default/

Only if Brave lets you disable its own adblocker and install a 3rd party
extension for adblocking that YOU can configure as to what it blocks
would I bother trialing it. I see a few extensions listed at
https://brave.com/features/. Are others allowed?

https://brave.com/loading-chrome-extensions-in-brave/

Hmm, guess you can use Chrom(e|ium) extensions in Brave. But can you
disable Brave's own ad-allowing, er, adblocking function to rely solely
on your choice of an adblocker extension?

There is also Vivaldi which uses the same base as Chrome but has none of
Google's spyware in it.

So, your suggesting is to move from Firefox or any of its variants to
Chromium or one of those variants.

I think that Eich's approach to Brave is that it would have everything a
user is likely to need built-in. For that, I can't really fault him.
Regardless of how simple it is, I do believe that many Firefox users are
entirely unaware of the fact that the browser allows them to install
additional features to enhance their browsing experience.

I don't use Brave myself because I like some DRM-enabled content and
Brave doesn't support that (in Linux at least) but it seems like a good
choice for many people. I prefer Vivaldi myself.


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SilverSlimer