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I heard that Chrome was Not Great so I switched to Firefox, which I hear is Good Again. What's the adblocker of choice? Any other must-have extensions for security?
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Jun 27, 2020 02:34
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big cummers ONLY posted:I heard that Chrome was Not Great so I switched to Firefox, which I hear is Good Again. What's the adblocker of choice? Any other must-have extensions for security? uBlock Origin exists in all the major browsers. HTTPS Everywhere does what it says on the tin. Privacy Badger and some forms of script blocker are the other commonly-recommended security extensions.
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Jun 27, 2020 02:36
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Same addons as you used under chrome, ublock, umatrix, whatever. All the big ones are on all browsers. Just be aware that some poo poo straight up doesn't work on firefox, it's reminiscent of the IE days. People develop websites for Chrome and nothing else.
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Jun 27, 2020 02:37
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Oh dear, was I bamboozled into switching away from Chrome?
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Jun 27, 2020 02:44
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big cummers ONLY posted:Oh dear, was I bamboozled into switching away from Chrome? It's very much like the IE days where the dominant player doesn't adhere to the standards as well as it should.
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Jun 27, 2020 02:46
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thanks folks, you're great. always around to help when i have random clueless questions.
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Jun 27, 2020 03:00
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Firefox is fine on 99.9% of sites. Just be aware you'll want to keep chrome installed when you hit the one that doesn't.
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Jun 27, 2020 03:27
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Comedy option: use edge for that .1% (Or not so comedy, I can understand not even wanting any google product on my pc.)
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Jun 27, 2020 03:51
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My usage is 99.5% Firefox, 0.4% Chrome for streaming Bob's Burgers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and 0.1% Edge for sites that don't work with ad blockers cause it's easier than disabling the ad blocker on FF or chrome. I don't log into anything on Edge, so hopefully the cookie trackers aren't grabbing anything.
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Jun 27, 2020 04:01
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Ublock origin is the best ad blocker. But Honestly now that edge is chromium based you should probably use that rather than google chrome. You can still install stuff from the chrome extension store. New Edge combines everything that makes chrome good plus a bunch of Microsoft tech that makes it even better and more secure.
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Jun 27, 2020 04:41
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Don't know about "even better and more secure", Microsoft really seems to cram tons of worthless features like "Collections" into Edge. But for me, the only reason I switched from Chrome to Edge is the fact Chrome doesn't (or, no longer has) have tab mute & it's not Firefox, which always feels slow and clunky and doesn't have the ability to launch launch websites as apps.
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Jun 27, 2020 10:51
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Lambert posted:Don't know about "even better and more secure", Microsoft really seems to cram tons of worthless features like "Collections" into Edge. But for me, the only reason I switched from Chrome to Edge is the fact Chrome doesn't (or, no longer has) have tab mute & it's not Firefox, which always feels slow and clunky and doesn't have the ability to launch launch websites as apps. muting a tab was one of my most used features of chrome, why did they get rid of that anyway. muting the loving site as a whole blows. ill also add in and say that for 92% of ppl if you liek chrome you'll like edge.
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Jun 27, 2020 11:42
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I’ve been using Edge as my primary browser since it switched over. It’s good. The spacing of some UI elements is a little too large compared to Chrome, but for everything else it’s great. You may still have issues with some sites that say Edge isn’t Chrome.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:10
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I was thinking of switching to Vivaldi myself. I could use the power user stuff for my 400 odd tabs.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:25
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HalloKitty posted:An old Windows vm would be perfect for this kind of thing, fire it up and run outlook express the way it was intended. Is there a way to actually get a Windows XP VM these days though? I threw away all my XP discs and keys years ago. Edit - Google is my friend, found a few options. Thanks.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:46
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Medullah posted:Is there a way to actually get a Windows XP VM these days though? I threw away all my XP discs and keys years ago. I think it's also easy to forget that if you have Windows 7 Pro installed anywhere, it has a free copy of XP in a VM available to it in the form of Windows XP Mode. It's something that was hyped at launch to get businesses away from XP at all costs, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about it any more Edit: it seems there are also various guides online to get the XP mode image installed and activated on Windows 10, too HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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Jun 27, 2020 20:54
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Just use Virtualbox.
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Jun 27, 2020 21:51
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HalloKitty posted:I think it's also easy to forget that if you have Windows 7 Pro installed anywhere, it has a free copy of XP in a VM available to it in the form of Windows XP Mode. It's something that was hyped at launch to get businesses away from XP at all costs, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about it any more Yup, that's what I found online. Create a VM in VirtualBox and extract the XP Mode download.
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Jun 27, 2020 21:57
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Arivia posted:I was thinking of switching to Vivaldi myself. I could use the power user stuff for my 400 odd tabs. Took me 3 hours to make the switch, but I'm down to 543 tabs from 814, and they're all much better organized. Now I can start actually working on reading some of this stuff through and finishing it off, too.
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Jun 28, 2020 00:38
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Just coming in here to bitch about how the latest update on reboot locked me into a guided tour of the new Edge features that I don't care about or will even use.
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Jun 28, 2020 02:32
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OhFunny posted:Just coming in here to bitch about how the latest update on reboot locked me into a guided tour of the new Edge features that I don't care about or will even use. I hope you paid attention to the options to prevent it from copying all your browser data into itself.
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Jun 28, 2020 03:00
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Dylan16807 posted:I hope you paid attention to the options to prevent it from copying all your browser data into itself. I thankfully did not do this.
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Jun 28, 2020 06:17
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its cool that setting up windows now feels like a game of irl minesweeper MS gone full circle hmmm... minesweeper 360...
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Jun 28, 2020 13:14
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Does Minesweeper have a subscription service as well, or is that Solitaire-only?
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Jun 28, 2020 14:42
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Uthor posted:cause it's easier than disabling the ad blocker on FF or chrome.
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Jun 28, 2020 20:30
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And three more clicks to reenable. Plus whatever troubleshooting I need to do to figure out if it is actually ad blocking or cookie tracking or a combination of the two.
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Jun 28, 2020 20:42
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MikusR posted:It take 4 to open it in Edge.  takes me just 2
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Jun 28, 2020 21:02
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big clicks or small i love you all
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Jun 28, 2020 21:13
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Oh, nice. I knew such addons/extensions existed but I totally forgot thank you.
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Jun 28, 2020 23:25
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Statutory Ape posted:big clicks or small i love you all 2.5 clicks here 
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Jun 29, 2020 07:10
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tuyop posted:2.5 clicks here RIP your finger, you can never let go of the mouse button without it counting as a full click
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Jun 29, 2020 08:04
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HalloKitty posted:RIP your finger, you can never let go of the mouse button without it counting as a full click sorry you still can't understand the concept of half mouse clicks, TJ "HalloKitty" Yoshi now, to enter firefox parallel universes, we need to hold ctrl-t for 12 hours until we have enough tabs to overflow the tabbar buffer...
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Jun 29, 2020 09:26
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I caved and bought Active Bootdisk in the end and managed to recover most of my songs. A few seem to have become corrupted but uh, I'll find out which and weed those out in due time I guess? There was like 50 gigs of music and audio files and some didn't get the tags or names recovered and I have no idea what they are, might be stuff from games or something. But I got the stuff I was missing from my collection at least.
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Jun 29, 2020 11:02
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Klyith posted:sorry you still can't understand the concept of half mouse clicks, TJ "HalloKitty" Yoshi There's something so utterly wonderful about the way a handful of people have torn Mario 64 apart, it's truly mindboggling
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Jun 29, 2020 13:21
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How does Windows license recovery work in the age of Windows 10? From what I can see I have to connect my computer to my MSFT account to have my license linked and if I have that setup I can reinstall from a bootable USB and just log in to have my licensing restored. For various reasons I don't like the idea of logging into my computer with my "Microsoft" account, so I'm using local admin accounts. I'm paranoid that I'll either get locked out or it'll be too easy for someone else to get in. Is it time for me to change my MSFT password to something "easy" and use that to log in? Should I create a second admin account and link THAT one to my MSFT account? Is there some 3rd way I'm not thinking of?
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Jun 29, 2020 16:21
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FunOne posted:
Dunno if changing your password to something less secure is a good idea. I do know that if you set up the MS account on your Windows machine, you can somehow set it to unlock with a PIN instead of a password, like an iPad or something.
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Jun 29, 2020 16:23
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I don't know if the account linked to the MS account needs to be admin for the license transfer, but you can certainly de-admin it after. And you used to be able to unlink it back to a local account, I'm not sure how it is now.
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Jun 29, 2020 16:38
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Last Chance posted:Dunno if changing your password to something less secure is a good idea. I do know that if you set up the MS account on your Windows machine, you can somehow set it to unlock with a PIN instead of a password, like an iPad or something. Everything other than my phone & computer password are random 10 digit things. I'm not going to memorize and type that poo poo in 2 dozen times a day, so if I have to login using my MSFT password its going to have to be "easy".
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Jun 29, 2020 16:45
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Last Chance posted:Dunno if changing your password to something less secure is a good idea. I do know that if you set up the MS account on your Windows machine, you can somehow set it to unlock with a PIN instead of a password, like an iPad or something. You can do this with a local account too. It's great.
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Jun 29, 2020 17:02
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Every time I go to update LibreOffice, I get a note saying "The automatic download of the update is currently not available" and I need to manually download and install the update. Is there something wrong with my setup and keeps the program from applying updates itself or is this just not a feature of LibreOffice?
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Jun 29, 2020 17:05
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