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Ditch Firefox and go to any other browser.

Posted on 04/05/2014 7:08:16 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

As long as Firefox/Mozilla is willing to can their conservative CEO...shouldn't we cast our vote by canning Firefox/Mozilla.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: browsers; firefox; mozilla; palemoon
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To: RandallFlagg

thanks for pale moon tip, looks like it run most all my firefox addons too


81 posted on 04/05/2014 8:25:49 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: RoosterRedux

No brainer and already told them on their feedback page, and why. I never liked IE from the get go. I’ll use something else. Not IE though cause I don’t do Windoze anymore. But FF/Mozilla is dead to me.


82 posted on 04/05/2014 8:26:39 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: catnipman

Addressed here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3141047/posts


83 posted on 04/05/2014 8:27:41 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: RoosterRedux

Done. Firefox is history.


84 posted on 04/05/2014 8:28:20 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Marie

thanks, that worked


85 posted on 04/05/2014 8:28:31 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: catnipman

Because they earn revenue from that “free product” everytime you visit Google, Yahoo, Bing....etc. If you change browsers youre already taking money from them.


86 posted on 04/05/2014 8:29:36 PM PDT by RedForemanRules
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To: Marie

This is actually really cool (I’m actually really, really happy with this switch!):

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4016

Why was the default search changed to DuckDuckGo?

Since several people have asked this question, and I expect more people will, I’ll highlight the most important reasons for changing the default search engine to DuckDuckGo in Pale Moon 24.4 and later:

Unbiased search results: With the previous default search provider (Google), the results of your search would be biased based on who you are: your geographical location, your search history (yes, Google keeps a history of everything you ever searched for), ads you have clicked on and tracked sites you have visited. Although it’s marketed as “providing you with more relevant results” I think this kind of bias is bad. It will show you more of the same stuff you already like and know and have searched for before. If you use a search engine, how often do you want to look up the same thing or want to be given the same kind of results? It would be the bane for any actual research you are doing.

No profiling: As said above, Google keeps a history of your search results. Don’t believe me? go have a look yourself here: https://history.google.com/history/

This kind of recorded history helps Google with building user profiles, which in turn can be used commercially. Based on your past results you may even be shown completely different providers for goods and services (in different price brackets) because you fall in a certain group of people, for example. Not to mention that aggregated data from user searches can also be sold to interested parties. And I think most people didn’t even know this kind of (very personal!) data was being collected.

Privacy-aware search provider: DuckDuckGo is privacy-aware. They make efforts to not track you and not store any sort of data (well they do, briefly, for normal search engine operations, but it’s being immediately thrown away when no longer needed). While there are other, similar search providers with the same privacy goals, I’ve chosen (a while back already) to include DuckDuckGo in Pale Moon for providing a current-day, complete package with relevant results based on proven technology.


87 posted on 04/05/2014 8:30:22 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: RoosterRedux

So, at 10 PM two nights after this happened, you think this is a worthy vanity post?


88 posted on 04/05/2014 8:31:18 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: RoosterRedux

switched from Firefox to Pale Moon; will not go back to IE and hate Google


89 posted on 04/05/2014 8:31:42 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: RoosterRedux

Tell Mozilla what you think, and add your voice to thousands of others:

https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/


90 posted on 04/05/2014 8:33:10 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: Marie

I had no trouble resetting my theme on Pale Moon. It was the only thing that did not transfer from FF.

It was no trouble to open “Add-ons” and set PM to use the theme of my choice.


91 posted on 04/05/2014 8:37:08 PM PDT by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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To: Wuli
switched from Firefox to Pale Moon; will not go back to IE and hate Google

Just curious: what was the last version of IE you used?
92 posted on 04/05/2014 8:38:42 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

“Just curious: what was the last version of IE you used?”

cannot remember; sooooo long ago


93 posted on 04/05/2014 8:40:17 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: RandallFlagg

Thank you Mr. Flagg. I did the switch to Pale Moon. As a long long time user of Firefox, I liked it. But it was probably time to change things up a bit.

Good suggestion.


94 posted on 04/05/2014 8:41:25 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: RandallFlagg; Marie; This Just In

Thank you. Now to find an OS.


95 posted on 04/05/2014 8:42:21 PM PDT by miele man
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Opera seems much faster than FF....it was a real resource hog lately.


96 posted on 04/05/2014 8:43:26 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (No Mo (zilla). I'm going to the Opera instead.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Just a quick note: The browser “Chromium” is open-source and not associated with Mozilla OR Google. Google built “Chrome” on the Chromium framework, and added their tracking nonsense to it. “Chromium” will not track you or snitch on you to Google (or anyone else).


97 posted on 04/05/2014 8:44:17 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m not about to let other peoples actions determine the tools I choose to use. It’s called freedom.


98 posted on 04/05/2014 8:44:53 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: rw4site

I found it! Thank you!


99 posted on 04/05/2014 8:45:38 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Interesting, as Opera is twice the size of FF, with fewer features. What’s Opera doing with those 120 megs?


100 posted on 04/05/2014 8:46:04 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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