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RHEL for the Clueless: Securing Firefox
How secure is “secure”? Nobody can decide for you. What I offer here is the measures I take before browsing the Net. From what I can tell, these measures are effective in that the data-mining and marketing industry has a … Continue reading
Building Dillo on Ubuntu Lucid
Dillo is one of those niche projects which has always added something I need. Fast is good, but the primary reason I want it is that compromise between Lynx and friends, and the more graphical mouse-able interface. Given too many … Continue reading
Lynx Web Browser on Win7 (Updated)
This post is a couple years old still getting lots of hits. I now recommend you move the installation within your own Documents folder and work from there. You’ll have to change the paths below to match that, but you’ll … Continue reading
Medium Destroys the Message
A friend sent a link for me to read. I clicked. The page loaded, then immediately the whole thing was blocked by a Flash window. I couldn’t read the content nor close the window. Granted, I had Flashblock in place, … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, internet, propaganda, religion
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JavaScript Still a Mistake
In my research, I read an awful lot of sites I really don’t recommend. Most of them for the content, but a few have infuriating use of JavaScript (AKA JScript or ECMAScript). Some sites are run by technicians who clearly … Continue reading
Grab That Online Video: Mozilla
Folks, this is way out of date, more than seven years old. It doesn’t work like this any more. So you run across this instructional video on YouTube, and you would love to keep a copy, since pulling it down … Continue reading
Spidermonkey on Ubuntu Karmic
There is a noteworthy conflict on Karmic if you try to install libmozjs-dev because it conflicts with anything based on xulrunner 1.9. I can’t begin to explain why the Mozilla developers hold Spidermonkey to 1.8, but because of how the … Continue reading
Chrome Browser for Linux: Worth a Shot
All browsers stink. Some are simply able to choke you less. I am fully aware Google lies about compromising your privacy. Very early on I knew they were allied with the CIA and other clandestine agencies of the US government … Continue reading
openSUSE 11.2-RC1 64-bit Sound and Flash
Novell has taken the safe path like RHEL, in that they don’t include any controversial codecs and such with the distribution. However, unlike RHEL, Novell actually cripples their bundled media players, so that you have to rebuild them, get someone … Continue reading
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Web Ads Out of Control
I never thought I would see it. I was reading Slashdot, scrolling down, and a huge single window popped up in my Seamonkey browser. Not just that, but the whole site in the background went dark. There was nothing in … Continue reading