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To: dayglored
Back in the early 90's I switched from SpyGlass (NCSA Mosaic) to Netscape, and from Netscape to Firefox. (Spyglass was bought by Microsoft and became IE.) I've used Firefox ever since because I have to run everyday on Windows, Linux, and Mac computers, and using different browsers with different rules and bookmarks was insane. Firefox was my sanity.

Pretty much follows what I've used browser-wise. I remember firefox when it was a .1 release. Started using it regularly as a .2 before they actually settled on the FF name. My bookmarks file is ancient, and has migrated from one computer to the next up to the present day. Of course, I've got craploads of links that are no good any more (there's a couple of gopher protocol links in there that I don't even think Firefox even recognizes these days.) I like that FF still allows you to export your bookmarks as an HTML file. (in addition to the more current json as well). My bookmark file has been my 'homepage' for years because it's quicker than opening any external webpage.

I really hate the thought of changing browsers, but I imagine I will have to some day. Not looking forward to it.

64 posted on 10/23/2017 6:07:39 PM PDT by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: zeugma
> I really hate the thought of changing browsers, but I imagine I will have to some day. Not looking forward to it.

Yep, tell me about it.

I'll probably end up with Chrome, it's cross-platform and well-supported, and it's the best at doing Hangouts which is my company's vid-conf tool of choice. Unfortunately I'll also have to update my venerable CentOS 6 main workstation, because its GLIBC is 2.12, and Chrome requires min. 2.14. I'm not going to attempt an in-place upgrade from 6 to 7, and certainly not an in-place upgrade of GLIBC, so I'll just get a fresh SSD, install CentOS 7, and migrate everything. I'd install Ubuntu because that's what we mainly use at work, but it's at an awkward stage -- 14 was great but going out of support, 16 is current but sucks, and 18 looks like a winner, but it's not coming out until spring. OTOH CentOS 7 is a little weirder than I prefer, too. *sigh*

83 posted on 10/23/2017 7:55:04 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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