Posted on 01/11/2021 7:30:49 AM PST by Wuli
So who can help an old geezer like me do all this switching around?
When I was growing up the only thing we had to learn is the tone our phone made for us on the party line.
I dropped FireFox/Mozilla yesterday. Switched to Brave.
Just download from here https://brave.com/
I’ll need to check out Brave.
Done but I’m a MAC guy so I am trying several others to find one I like. bye bye Mozilla and I was such a fan
Running on Brave right now - checking it out
A bit late. You should have left them when they booted their founder.
That was when they went fascist.
I just downloaded Brave from the link https://brave.com/
My BitDefender virus software detected it was infected.
I have removed this app.
BEWARE!
I noticed Opera loads much faster. Should have switched long ago.
Did it yesterday.
DuckDuckGo has a Browser at both the APP Store. I’m using it right now.
See #31
Microsoft claims to have moved Hotmail uses over to Outlook.com.
Politically Hotmail was hosted on MSN.Com and MSN was Microsoft’s web portal for news and access to Hotmail Email accounts. But used to be related to MSNBC. No more. Microsoft sold MSNBC to Comcast.
We will to wait to see how much or if Microsoft joins the Leftist cancel culture against the 75 million Trump supporters.
I never liked Outlook - did not want to be dominated by Microsoft. That is part of why I went to Thunderbird. The other reason was I did not want to be actually “doing” my Email sitting on Verizon’s or anyone else’s servers.
I wanted to use a true Email client application and with it set up for POP accounts. With a POP account you can execute a function that goes out to your actual Email account (with whomever is has your Email server - which can always be whomever delivers your Internet service if you just use their default Email service) - and your Email client application performs the password handshake with your Email server and then gets your Emails - downloaded onto your PC - and can simultaneously delete them from your Email host’s system. Then you are reading and composing Eamil on your own PC. The only other time your Email client app is making any Internet connection is just to for a few seconds send an outgoing Email.
That is a true POP account set up and Thunderbird did that very well.
Now many of these Email client applications are encouraging the use IMAP Email accounts instead of POP. I do not do that because an IMAP account, as long as you are Internet connected, is keeping you connected to the Internet Email server, because all it is really trying to do is “mirror” what is on that server.
With a true POP account in an Email client application, you control if and when you need Internet connection for that account and your PC, independently, has every Email you have ever selected to get and keep. From a security perspective your Email client application is not “open” to the Internet - not an open application in that portion of your PC operating system that is performing the Internet access - except for those very few instances you decide to get or send Email.
I switched to Brave.. that seems to be ok.
All I seem to find with DuckDuckGo was a browser privacy extension that can be added as an extension in Brave. I did not see a separate browser offer from them.
“You should have left them when they booted their founder.”
You are write, and like you that action did upset me and I considered leaving Firefox and Thunderbird at that time. I have plenty of excuses I considered reasons for not doing it before now. All of them were just laziness and resistance to change from what I was comfortable with, and frankly what I was happy with in terms of the operations.
My bad, I agree.
Changed over this AM
Any decent alternatives to Thunderbird? I have mine set up to fetch emails from multiple addresses, a mix of POP and IMAP.
Um,... Thunderbird hasn’t been Mozilla for a number of years.
Independent, funded by contributions.
I’m still on Firefox, but it’s an old, old revn. that runs on top of XP-Pro. Mozilla hasn’t updated it in years, so any chicanery they pull today or going forward will pass me by.
I’ve been on Brave for 2 years and am happy with it.
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