Posted on 05/30/2014 11:24:40 AM PDT by UScbass
Have been using the Firefox browser since it was introduced; with all the controversies (political), it has been suggested that I change to Chrome (Google), Safari (Apple), or Opera browser. Any suggestions as to whether a change is recommended and, if so, to what?
I tried Opera, but there’s no dropdown menu. So every time you go to a webpage you have to type it in over & over. Yes, you will have to type “www.freerepublic.com” in every time you come here, it won’t save
IE is beyond garbage. Constant crashes and freezes. Constantly pop-ups asking you to manage Add-Ons. Or the dumbest thing ever, which are the pop ups telling you it blocked a pop up.
Ditched FF weeks ago.
Pale Moon works fine!
Agree!
I can separate politics from usefulness, as long as a company can in their product(s).
I use FF and am stuck at version 15 because later versions have too many conflicts with other software. But, so does IE and other browsers.
I still use an old IE-based Fast Browser Pro for FR, because it is tabbed and has some editing add-ons that don’t work with IE after ver 9.
I have a couple of other browsers that I use infrequently, but they do come in handy when Flash or some other feature fails to work on IE or FF.
FF does have nice add-ons, so I continue to use it — regardless of the politics.
If we dumped everything that had a liberal leaning, we would have huge vacant spaces in our culture.
There isn’t a “conservative” browser. The internet is everything and everybody. Any company will have a mix of people. Any company will try to maximize their profits regardless of morals or what you consider moral. Ying and Yang. The only way to clean the internet is to forbid certain people from getting online. That way is dangerous.
Options:
Internet Explorer:
Owned by Microsoft, bloated, DRM friendly. Plays nice with Microsoft technologies, not so well with Java.
Chrome:
Owned by Google, snoopiest.
Opera:
Largely funded by Google. Awful interface.
Firefox:
Largely funded by Google. Ridiculous # of upgrades.
Safari:
Owned by Apple. Windows version abandoned eons ago. Doesn’t play nice with Flash.
Numerous small players created largely by the Linux community (e.g. Konqueror). Flash and other compatibility issues.
Numerous knock-offs of Firefox. I use Waterfox (64 bith version of Firefox).
All of these products have their problems. I would recommend the Firefox derivative of your choice.
StartPage is a search engine, not a browser.
ToR is probably the least NSA friendly browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcp/ip
The more you research about the history of the internet the more you’ll come to understand what it’s about.
NWO runs both gov’t and internet.
It’s really an ingeniously clever idea, I have to admit, to get the masses to think that they’re somehow “breaking free” of government and its big business partners when they’re using their network.
Remember, they see all the data that comes from and goes to your computer.
This should be informative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
“I really don’t see the political difference between the liberals at Microsoft, Google and the liberals at Firefox.
Just use the best browser for you and be done with it.”
100% correct. It’s insane to use inferior FREE technology and deliberately hamper your own life over ridiculous miniscule differences between various bastions of “Progressivism”.
What good does it do yourself to cripple yourself in such a situation? Who exactly do you think you are hurting here besides yourself?
Now if you were choosing with actual dollars from your actual pocketbook and all else was equal, then by all means, support the company you like the best. But even here, it’s foolish to purchase a vastly inferior, overpriced product in lieu of the one that best does the job for you because of politics. You’re really only hurting yourself in such a situation.
Personally, I detest chrome and like firefox the best because of the plethora of available flexibility, productivity, and privacy addons (despite, of course, the many flaws of FF, namely the perpetual memory leaks Mozilla has always refused to fix, causing FF to eventually freeze and/or crash after several days of intensive use.)
Good advice. Use the browser that works best for you. None is any more secure than another and each has problems that go along with them. If you encounter compatibility problems, learn how to use the compatibility mode settings to set compatibility for a page or pages to an earlier version that was compatible.
BFL
<snort> How many exit nodes do you think the NSA is running?
Comodo Icedragon(based on firefox) or Comodo Dragon(based on Chrome) they say they are more secure
There could be. There is no reason a FReeper couldn’t take something open-source and rebrand it and make it their own. That is what open-source allows.
Firefox could be copied and become the Free Republic Web-browser.
“I really don’t see the political difference between the liberals at Microsoft, Google and the liberals at Firefox.
Just use the best browser for you and be done with it.”
100% correct. It’s insane to use inferior FREE technology and deliberately hamper your own life over ridiculous miniscule differences between various bastions of “Progressivism”.
What good does it do yourself to cripple yourself in such a situation? Who exactly do you think you are hurting here besides yourself?
Now if you were choosing with actual dollars from your actual pocketbook and all else was equal, then by all means, support the company you like the best. But even here, it’s foolish to purchase a vastly inferior, overpriced product in lieu of the one that best does the job for you because of politics. You’re really only hurting yourself in such a situation.
Personally, I detest chrome and like firefox the best because of the plethora of available flexibility, productivity, and privacy addons (despite, of course, the many flaws of FF, namely the perpetual memory leaks Mozilla has always refused to fix, causing FF to eventually freeze and/or crash after several days of intensive use.)
Mozilla gets its funding from Google which gets its money from advertising on Firefox. If you want to stay with Firefox, at least get rid of the Google et al searches and just use IxQuick or DuckDuckGo. Also install an ad blocker.
While I like Chrome with its very fast rendering speed of web pages, it being owned by left-leaning Google and the bad habit of trying to run two different copies of Adobe Flash is a bit of a turnoff (you have to use the http://chrome:plugins settings page to disable all running copies of Flash except one).
I changed to Pale Moon ... it’s working beautifully & I’ve deleted Firefox off my laptop. Pale Moon is an independently developed product based on Firefox so it looks pretty much like it, but it does not follow Firefox to the letter. It’s a bit more streamlined as well.
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