Posted on 04/10/2014 10:33:23 PM PDT by ari-freedom
for later
Here’s what Eric S Raymond (”Cathedral and the Bazaar”) had to say
http://www.ibiblio.org/esrblog/
“When I heard that Brendan Eich had been forced to resign his new job as CEO at Mozilla, my first thought was “Congratulations, gay activists. You have become the bullies you hate.”
On reflection, I think the appalling display of political thuggery we’ve just witnessed demands a more muscular response. Eich was forced out for donating $1000 to an anti-gay-marriage initiative? Then I think it is now the duty of every friend of free speech and every enemy of political bullying to pledge not only to donate $1000 to the next anti-gay-marriage initiative to come along, but to say publicly that they have done so as a protest against bullying.
This is my statement that I am doing so. I hope others will join me.
It is irrelevant whether we approve of gay marriage or not. The point here is that bullying must have consequences that deter the bullies, or we will get more of it. We must let these thugs know that they have sown dragon’s teeth, defeating themselves. Only in this way can we head off future abuses of similar kind.
And while I’m at it – shame on you, Mozilla, for knuckling under. I’ll switch to Chrome over this, if it’s not totally unusable.”
Does Opera, therefore, offer the security of Chrome without the Google back door, or am I kidding myself?
“Does Opera, therefore, offer the security of Chrome without the Google back door, or am I kidding myself?”
It depends on how fast they deliver security updates. If it takes them a long time to fix a problem (and everyone will have problems no matter what engine they use), you may be exploited in the meantime.
For reference, “Chrome” is actually based on the Chromium opensource browser. Chromium doesn’t have any of Google’s tracking/reporting code in it.
Probably kidding yourself. There are options in both to not track your activities online...
And I have ghostery and no ad running.
Use both. Firefox allows video downloaders for Youtube and all other websites with video. Chrome won’t.
Good for Eric Raymond! I’m impressed.
So, who cares?
GOODBY Firefox!
Note to self - install ghostery.
Why is that sad? IE is more widely used and is very secure overall. I’d say more so than even chrome.
Thanks ari-freedom.
I found this one yesterday, it’s newly uploaded to, hmm, CNet? Also available on its own website. Small d/l, works acceptably, fast enough, one weird quirk (has to do with search results on Google) that I noticed, tabs (I like having tabs open in the background for example), can zoom pages (I’m using a monitor across the room).
http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/
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