Posted on 09/02/2008 12:06:01 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
Heartily recommend it.
Since it's open source, I would imagine that these features will be added by someone. I wonder if there would be any interest in a browser designed for Free Republic. I would like to have a button that would take me to the FR comments page of an article I'm reading...
LOL, and they can make sure it's you with their satellite looking down from above with 9.75 inch resolution.
BTW, they demonstrated their browser by looking for Obama's book on Amazon.com.
bttt
Safari has a "content blocker" similar to adblock (just not as convenient). Safari, Opera, and IE have their versions of Firebug. I haven't seen Flashblock anywhere besides Firefox, but the multi-process thing makes it less of an issue.
Google exists primarily to deliver advertisements to your computer screen.
They can keep their browser for now.
* Ping *
Screw Google = Scroogle
i use this firefox extension for my search functions. Google without the junk.
I can’t make it download; nothing appears in the Download box on Firefox. Maybe the competition is sabotaging it. ;-)
I don't either.
That’s a feature that makes the entire browser crash resistant. Instead of all instances of Chrome crashing on an error, only that tab crashes.
That’s what they say anyway. I’m not using it yet. I’ll wait a while. Firefox is good enough for me now.
How dare you!?
Both the Republicans and Democrats have insisted that you're anti-business if you're anti-spam, and we all know that you people who want privacy and the government minding its own business just MUST have something to hide!
TRANSMISSION TO OVERLORD: independent thought detected from user willyd;
Neutralize threat--generate new Google product
;-)
I’ve been playing with it all evening. It’s pretty snappy. All my FF bookmarks show up fine. I don’t see how to block all the flash ads yet.
It’s good, although I’m not a fan of google’s politics.
I was wondering about that too. A few months ago, I compiled a Cocoa app that could become a Free Republic web browser. It's basically WebKit rendering engine with Apple's user interface.
It's called... wait for it... ... ... the "FRowser".
I had several cool ideas for it, but haven't done anything with it since. With some additional coding, it could do automatic signatures, tagline rotation, blacklisting messages by user-specified screen names, etc.
Is there a Cocoa compatibility library for Windows? I know there is GNUStep on Linux. A quick Google search found Cocoatron which attempts to be more complete, but doesn't appear to be out of beta.
One advantage of a "FRowser" is that things like Google searches and Google ad clickthrough $$$ in search results can go to Free Republic. Firefox makes tens of millions of dollars from their Google search bar.
"11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."Ah.... no.
I think that gnustep is ported to Windows on top of the Cygwin libraries, but I haven’t tried it. There is a page about it here -
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00832.html
It probably lacks the WebKit interfaces, but it’s probably feasible to add those.
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