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Mozilla Shrinks to Survive Amid Declining Firefox Usage
ITProToday ^ | 18 August 2020 | Christine Hall

Posted on 08/19/2020 4:20:43 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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To: Bikkuri
A 286 and dual 5.25" floppy boot. You could read an entire paperback novel by the light of the orange text in one evening. Owned one. I eventually yanked the guts out, got a 3.5" floppy adapter tray, and converted it to a 386 SX so I could run Win 3.1. I held the mobo and power supply in place by using several sheets of styrofoam and a boxcutter to template it all. Back in the day when everything had it's own ISA controller card and the modem was a 14.4k baud dial-up. I scrounged and found a 20 MB HDD for it which could have doubled as a canoe anchor. I had to boot into DOS and toggle it to load Windows from there.

Better yet, brush up on your BASIC. LOL

81 posted on 08/19/2020 11:27:52 AM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: ShadowAce

I too downloaded and installed Brave, it took all my chrome bookmarks and settings. works really well. I need to play with it..


82 posted on 08/19/2020 11:40:56 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at)
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To: McGruff

your not the only one who remembers Mosaic.


83 posted on 08/19/2020 11:47:58 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at)
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To: daniel1212

Lol.. I used that one for a bit, but prefer old school so I don’t forget (again) how to do HTML... (guess I still need to update how to use HTML5, not sure of the differences yet).


84 posted on 08/19/2020 11:57:28 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: ducttape45

Netscape, for it’s time, was a great browser. Shame it had to stop.


85 posted on 08/19/2020 12:01:51 PM PDT by upchuck (We should pray hard that the Lord God Above will bless and take care of our country. Prayer works!)
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To: Viking2002
My first was a TRaSh 80, MicroColorComputer.. had a cassette player/cassette tape to save on.. 300Bd cradle modem.

Advanced to a "laptop" called Lazor (or something like that).. then my first 286, with a whopping 12MB HD.

I built all my PC (clones) after that.
86 posted on 08/19/2020 12:02:24 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri
Lol.. I used that one for a bit, but prefer old school so I don’t forget (again) how to do HTML... (guess I still need to update how to use HTML5, not sure of the differences yet).

With my stiff arthritic finger and limited html knowledge, I used the BBcodeXtra FF extension, which is also available on FF quantum, as bbCodeWebex. The Custom option enables you to make scripts to do such operations as pasting what you have copied into html formatting etc. In

Firefox, select the top paragraph and right click and choose View selection source to see the coding for that.

87 posted on 08/19/2020 12:10:31 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Bikkuri

Atari 1200 XL. WITH the cassette tape drive and joystick, thank you. All the programs were on essentially game cartridges, and the tape drive was to save very rudimentary word processing and spreadsheet pages. It was the computer equivalent of the human appendix. Useless. Graduated to the XT clone after that. That’s about the time I went full Victor Frankenstein and started splicing mismatched body parts together to make my First Creation. Once I went uptown and got a real 486, I set The Monster up in my late dad’s den for he and Mom to use. I still have an ancient e-mail from him saved in my old Yahoo account somewhere. Dated about 1998, I think. He passed away the following year, but he at least got his first hands-on with this little thing called computers and the Internet. He could tie up the phone line with that thing. It was like the Encyclopedia Britannica and The National Archives had arrived at his door, gift wrapped.


88 posted on 08/19/2020 12:46:56 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: daniel1212
"BBcodeXtra"

Yup, that's what spoiled me... but when it was no longer usable, it made me realize how lazy I had become, and forgotten too much :p
89 posted on 08/19/2020 1:14:38 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Viking2002

Yeah, I remember the 486 (DX2, that many said it was worthless if you weren’t running a server; which is the same thing most said when x64 came out too)..

Going back to the TRS80 and the cassettes, I remember getting a weekly magazine (PC weekly?!) and trying out all of the BASIC programs that were interesting (remember that one with the gorillas on the building chunking bananas at each other?).. about 2 hours to type it all in, then another 30 minutes or hour to save it on a cassette >,<


90 posted on 08/19/2020 1:20:51 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Is the problem related the FR Tree Viewer by Cynwoody or the “Greasemonkey” extension that allows it to work? (JS?). If Greasemonkey related, then there is a Brave extension that does the same thing called “Tampermonkey”.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/tampermonkey “Brave” is based off of Chrome (w/o the spy stuff obviously) thus the Chrome extension store.


91 posted on 08/19/2020 2:38:29 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Bikkuri

They do have it for windows and I knew that but now that I look at it, they have 32bit and 64bit(experimental)

https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/

My favorite is Evolution but that is definitely Linux only which is what I run. Haven’t done Windows in 15 years.


92 posted on 08/19/2020 2:44:08 PM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: Bikkuri

Yeah, my 486 was the first I owned that had a ZIF socket for the processor. The 386 was soldered to the board. The 286 WAS the board. LOL Remember the old Pentium II 350 and 400 MHz processors that were on Slot I cards and had those big, bulky aluminum heatsinks? Yep. Been there. Another Edsel.


93 posted on 08/19/2020 2:49:54 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: Drago

After the newer (post 47?!) FF update, cynwoody integrated his add-on to be able to install directly to FF, without greasemonkey/tampermonkey ( had both installed). I remember having issues after the update, and he explained it to me, at the time.

Brave, if I remember correctly, has steps to install Chrome add-ons, which I followed, but it still isn’t showing up :/

I may look into it again later.

(Oh, P.S. I don’t think it would be a FRTree viewer issue, unless it has something to do with permissions..)


94 posted on 08/19/2020 3:04:20 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: ShadowAce

Aren’t you running Fedora?


95 posted on 08/19/2020 3:15:05 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Yay! :D

Played around with it a bit more.. FINALLY got it working on Brave.

Now, I need to see if they have uBlock and uMatrix for Brave.


96 posted on 08/19/2020 3:43:38 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Yes, I am.


97 posted on 08/19/2020 3:56:51 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: upchuck

I hear ya. I loved the interface.


98 posted on 08/19/2020 3:57:48 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ShadowAce

Share peoples’ data, pay the consequences.


99 posted on 08/19/2020 4:31:55 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ShadowAce

Fedora is rolling updates, right?

If not, I am thinking about trying it out.. (hate the Arch rolling :p)


100 posted on 08/19/2020 4:45:35 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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