Vanilla, FIX THE FORUM

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,927
    it comes and goes Drew. It was happening to me a few weeks ago and about a month before that... frustrating for sure. I use Windows edge so a click and I'm signed back in I do not need to keep typing it anyway.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    it comes and goes Drew. It was happening to me a few weeks ago and about a month before that... frustrating for sure. I use Windows edge so a click and I'm signed back in I do not need to keep typing it anyway.

    Edge sucks just like IE. Microshaft is replacing it with a custom version of Google Chrome in an upcoming upgrade. Google will now be baked in to Windows. It's 1984 all over again.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,927
    For the record Dave it was happening on Chrome, Armorfly and Cheetah as well. The last two are phone browser's. I have a bad disdain for Google browser's. When someone post YouTube links i hate the fact that you can't just click the link and watch it. Getting the you must sign into your google account to view is horse hockey. You do not get that prompt from any other browser.
    I have had no problems with edge on my phone on win10 laptop.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,916
    There's always Mozilla/Firefox B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,916
    I gave up on Firefox years ago when it got really big and slow and ponderous... and drank the Chrome Kool-aid. I get all the downsides to Chrome but, in the Devil's bargain that being on-line at all is, it nets out, to my way of thinking, to be the least worst option all around.

    YMMV, of course.

    I did use open source/freeware OS and browsers in the past. Was pretty happy in the Ubuntu world for a while, but the relentless pace of upgrades wore me out.

    I may take one of the elderly laptops around here with XP still sittin' on it and try Ubuntu or something along those lines again some time... I know that laptops can be a little trickier due to proprietary graphics quirks and whatnot, but on a 'cannon fodder' laptop (and there're a few of those around here) it's an acceptable risk.

    I just have to get bored enough to fiddle with it some time.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,927
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    There's always Mozilla/Firefox B)

    I gave up on Mozilla after our work IT folks kept finding it infected with gremlins. Even C-net downloads came with viruses.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,916
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    There's always Mozilla/Firefox B)

    I gave up on Mozilla after our work IT folks kept finding it infected with gremlins. Even C-net downloads came with viruses.

    that is interesting -- I'd've thought they'd be petty good about keeping it clean.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    For the record Dave it was happening on Chrome, Armorfly and Cheetah as well. The last two are phone browser's. I have a bad disdain for Google browser's. When someone post YouTube links i hate the fact that you can't just click the link and watch it. Getting the you must sign into your google account to view is horse hockey. You do not get that prompt from any other browser.
    I have had no problems with edge on my phone on win10 laptop.

    The only thing I like about Chrome, is the sync feature. My work station, media center and laptops all have the same favorites, passwords etc.
    I do NOT use Google's search engine on any browser. I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 7,454
    westmassguy wrote: »

    The only thing I like about Chrome, is the sync feature. My work station, media center and laptops all have the same favorites, passwords etc.
    I do NOT use Google's search engine on any browser. I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years.

    You know Mozilla Firefox has the sync feature too. It works between mobile and desktop, just like Chrome. You can also import everything from Chrome if you are worried about passwords, etc.

    After repeated stories and articles about how Chrome allows dozens or hundreds of trackers to run in the background, I have decided to move completely to Firefox (which disables trackers by default). About a year ago, Firefox had some major updating and I feel it is just as fast as Chrome or Edge now. Yes, there are some occasional upsells, but they are easy enough to dismiss. Mozilla is the only one that seems to care about privacy.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,916
    mmmmm...maybe I should try Firefox again...

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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    billbillw wrote: »
    westmassguy wrote: »

    The only thing I like about Chrome, is the sync feature. My work station, media center and laptops all have the same favorites, passwords etc.
    I do NOT use Google's search engine on any browser. I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years.

    You know Mozilla Firefox has the sync feature too. It works between mobile and desktop, just like Chrome. You can also import everything from Chrome if you are worried about passwords, etc.

    After repeated stories and articles about how Chrome allows dozens or hundreds of trackers to run in the background, I have decided to move completely to Firefox (which disables trackers by default). About a year ago, Firefox had some major updating and I feel it is just as fast as Chrome or Edge now. Yes, there are some occasional upsells, but they are easy enough to dismiss. Mozilla is the only one that seems to care about privacy.

    FireFox started out light and fast, and then got bloated and slow like other browsers. I'll have to check it again.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,927
    Maybe I will too. It has been about two years maybe they cleaned it up. It was my favorite browser for a long time.
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