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To those still using Windows 7 - which browser do you recommend ?
2/12/21 | sushiman

Posted on 02/11/2021 9:14:19 PM PST by sushiman

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To: daniel1212
Chrome does not even offer "View selection source" as Firefox does

You can add any number of extensions to provide that. In a stock Edge browser window, I just highlighted a section of a web page, right clicked, and chose "Inspect",and it showed me the selected area in the web page source, nicely highlighted in the context of the whole source. If you don't know the capabilities of the other browsers, you can't make accurate comparisons.

141 posted on 02/14/2021 12:01:30 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: daniel1212
Even if you want about 160 documented sources on Covid19, or about 200 allegations of voter fraud. all copied with formatting and posted to render accordingly? Give me a about 30 seconds.

So I can do that by selecting side bookmark folders (Covid, VoteFraud") and then click "Open All". And my setup will render all of those in less than your 30 seconds because I'm not stuck with a slowerer rendering engine like as in the legacy FireFox.

I run multiple 4K 50" monitors. have 12 core (24 with hyper-threading) CPU, 64GB ram, and don't like even 2 or 3 inches wasted on each browser window. You must not run a lot of really, really big "stuff", in both memory, CPU, and screen space.

142 posted on 02/14/2021 12:16:33 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary
You can add any number of extensions to provide that. In a stock Edge browser window, I just highlighted a section of a web page, right clicked, and chose "Inspect",and it showed me the selected area in the web page source, nicely highlighted in the context of the whole source. If you don't know the capabilities of the other browsers, you can't make accurate comparisons.

I do know what that does in Chrome and FF for me, which is only showing one line out of all that I select. If I do as instructed here by LonM (Vivalid mod May 27, 2018, 2:19 PMin response to a request for the same ,

In fact, if you right-click and choose "inspect" it'll take you there right away. You can then right click whatever parent element contains your selection and copy the outerHTML It's a roundabout way of doing it, but that might help. versus View selection source.

then all I get is one line. If that worked as you said then why would there by "any number of extensions to provide that?" I have not found one. Just an extension source viewer to inspect browser extensions. Don't be claiming the capabilities of a browsers unless you can document it.

143 posted on 02/14/2021 3:44:40 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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To: BiglyCommentary
So I can do that by selecting side bookmark folders (Covid, VoteFraud") and then click "Open All". And my setup will render all of those in less than your 30 seconds because I'm not stuck with a slowerer rendering engine like as in the legacy FireFox.

That is not what I said. You want to open a bunch bookmarked pages and copy a list of about 200 allegations of voter fraud as formatted (hot linked) and then paste them render accordingly? That is hardly a comparison to having one page handy which provides them all. You could have one bookmarked but finding one when you have a lot and opening it is a lot slower than just opening the tab.

144 posted on 02/14/2021 3:53:10 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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To: BiglyCommentary
If you don't know the capabilities of the other browsers, you can't make accurate comparisons.

As said, in totality none can even match the functionality that Tab Mix Plus provided ( PC World said that "With Tab Mix Plus, Firefox tabs go past the obvious and into the indispensable... it's hard to imagine how you lived without it.") along with Colorful Tabs. Show me the Chrome extension than enables multiple tab rows, or adjusts max or min tab width, or even a simple option like enabling Ctrl+Tab to toggle btwn more recently opened tabs [Vivaldi shows this can be done natively], rather than the ridiculous through all tabs (there is an extension that is sppsd to do this but apparently it does not do that, but sets up alternative keys, and I have not figured it out yet). Or adds Copy Url on the right click menu for a inactive tab. Or that keeps the Find bar open across all tabs, Or any of the other functions I listed (and there are more), with the possible exception of the Open With extension I found. So far there have been zero

145 posted on 02/14/2021 4:04:18 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212
You could have one bookmarked but finding one when you have a lot and opening it is a lot slower than just opening the tab.

So if I want just one I click just that bookmark. As I said, no one really needs to have 300 tabs "hot". It's simply not possible to be actively working in all of those. So to me, if you think you need that, you're doing something wrong.

What is so hard about Click folder, expand, click? Or click search, enter keyword, and click?

I can see the full tile of let's say 50 or 100 active tabs I have open in a side window. I look at the one I want in the list and click. Instantly the focus is on that hot tab. Your setup truncates the full title in each tab header. To me that's a fail. And no, I don't want to have adjust the tab header width for each one. I'd rather just adjust the side window and see as much of all the full titles to distinguish them. But if you have small monitor, I guess that option is not available to use.

I think this horsey has been beaten to death lol. I'll leave saying that it is great for there to be an truly huge number of options for each to choose from.

146 posted on 02/14/2021 4:42:37 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary
So if I want just one I click just that bookmark. As I said, no one really needs to have 300 tabs "hot". It's simply not possible to be actively working in all of those. So to me, if you think you need that, you're doing something wrong. What is so hard about Click folder, expand, click? Or click search, enter keyword, and click?

But you are wrong, for you simply do not know the level of research and posting I am frequently engaged in, and the very extensive amounts of bookmarks organized into a multiplicity of folders, and the time it takes to not to only bookmark all the tabs I want handy, drilling down to the correct folder, but find and open them, when I can just go to the tab, and which if on another just means hitting the icon. It is about speed in a library and use of it. My documents (not audio) folder itself presently has 102,437 Files in 15,236 Folders. Praise God. So maybe your use is far less extensive, but do not impose what your works involves on me. My complaint is that in general few realize what they miss by not using extensions, and that we have indeed lost the degree of expanded functionality after legacy Firefox, and which I do indeed need.

I can see the full tile of let's say 50 or 100 active tabs I have open in a side window. Instantly the focus is on that hot tab. Your setup truncates the full title in each tab header. To me that's a fail. And no, I don't want to have adjust the tab header width for each one.

Whether it is on the side or the top then it is using real estate (though again, about 200 tabs for me means less than 2 inches), and I do not adjust the tab header width for each one but have them all set so that I can see what site it is from, and with all the ones from the same source being colored, and if i need to see more of the title a mouse hover quickly brings that up.

But if you have small monitor, I guess that option is not available to use.

Right, but I am blessed with a 23" one. For me even a laptop is under powered and insufficient let alone a Smart phone.

I think this horsey has been beaten to death lol. I'll leave saying that it is great for there to be an truly huge number of options for each to choose from.

Indeed. Yet only a relative few know or care, as for most just a Smart phone suffices, which is where most use of the Internet is from, and thus most people get their info from headlines and are more easily mislead. Which is another thread! Thanks for your input.

147 posted on 02/14/2021 5:47:19 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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To: HKMk23

Ah, thanks. Very helpful info.!


148 posted on 02/15/2021 1:54:52 AM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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