Tag Archives: Firefox

Google’s Latest Censorship Efforts

Posted on July 14, 2019 by ehurst

The “Health Ranger” has been known to exaggerate from time to time, but there is quite likely a basis in truth for his latest breathless warning about Google Chrome browser. I’ve been hearing just this kind of thing from technology … Continue reading →

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Google World

Posted on September 7, 2017 by ehurst

Consumer software is a moving target and any advice I might offer is obsolete three days later. On the tail of my advice to switch from Chrome-based browsers to Mozilla-based, I now read some of the less public chatter and … Continue reading →

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Tech Updates Mid-February 2016

Posted on February 12, 2016 by ehurst

I think I got DNSMasq working as intended. All I really wanted was an internal name caching server to speed DNS queries. I could have gone the route of Bind9 but that’s just a little heavyweight for mere name-caching. So … Continue reading →

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Firefox Now on the Dark Side

Posted on November 13, 2014 by ehurst

We probably should have seen this coming: Firefox users, get ready for ads in your browser. I don’t think AdBlock or it’s friends will help you with this. Granted, it’s not as if you have no options at all, but … Continue reading →

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CentOS 7 and 64-bit Mozilla Stuff

Posted on July 24, 2014 by ehurst

CentOS 7 comes with the ERS (Extended Release Support) version of Mozilla software. This is typical of the basic concept behind RHEL/CentOS and other clones, that you probably only have to install the OS once in the lifetime of the … Continue reading →

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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 8)

Posted on December 5, 2013 by ehurst

(The updated version of this series can be found here.) So we have the Chromium browser, but maybe you prefer the other major browser family, called Mozilla. We noted already that Debian doesn’t use the official labels for Firefox, but … Continue reading →

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