I finally did it.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 6:32 pm

Ditched Firefox. As one of my every day browsers, that is. Of course it still has a place of honor in my browser collection.
Still use Tor (which is Firefox based) for the occasional dodgy stuff and to get around regional restrictions.

Now it's Slimjet for nearly everything. I have already been using it for a while for business purposes.

Chromium based, but does not call home except for periodic updates (asks politely before installing).
Yes I checked and did not take their word for it.

https://www.slimjet.com/en/featurelist.php
https://www.slimjet.com/en/webhelp/index.htm

AdBlock completely integrated with the browser.

Additional extensions installed:

NoScript (I consider this absolutely essential)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... cbfeoakpjm

A little thingy to prevent YouTube from auto playing.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... dfnejkpegd

I also checked out the Brave browser, but decided it was too unstable for everyday use.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:12 pm

What? You stopped using this???

I use Brave for everyday use. Works a treat.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:42 pm

I have an image of the original install floppy. It will install but not run. Something about Windows 3.1 sockets being missing.

I switched to Mozilla when it came out (my post about it is somewhere here).

The last version of Netscape (the number slips my mind) will run on Win 7, but I don't have it installed.

Most of my browser collection is disk imaged on CD.

Currently installed:
Firefox 28 -- This is the least recent version that can handle current YouTube. All I deleted was the desktop shortcut.
Tor -- Always the latest.
Slimjet -- Always the latest.

And of course

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SnapShot_191112_174024.png

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:19 am

Here we go.

Knew I had this pic stashed somewhere.

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Netscape.jpg

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:27 am

You should use the 1996 style template!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:36 am

↑ That's a night in the box!

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:19 am

The 1982 then.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:26 am

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:57 pm

Addendum:

It turns out Slimjet's built in ad blocker is not 100% compatible with YouTube, so I whitelisted YouTube and added an extension which is a YouTube specific ad blocker.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... edklmejhmh

The two YouTube specific extensions and the way I have configured them are together exactly equivalent to a Greasemonkey script I was running on Firefox.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:12 pm

Addendum:

The Brave browser folks have finally released version 1.0 . I have installed it and tested it a little, and apparently they have fixed the issue that concerned me before.

I will probably play with it some more later, but doe now it is merely back in my collection.

Also a general observation -- I have been 100% Flash free for a while (including Firefox).

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:40 pm

Only thing I don't like about the Brave browser is the nudging to sing up to get paid to look at ads. Otherwise it seems pretty good.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:13 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:40 pm
Only thing I don't like about the Brave browser is the nudging to sing up to get paid to look at ads. Otherwise it seems pretty good.

It's an interesting business model.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:02 pm

Just added this thing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... maellmclnh

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:26 pm

Update:

Disabled the native ad blocker, added Ad Block Plus (what I had on Firefox),
got rid of the special You Tube ad blocker (not needed with Ad Block Plus).

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:27 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:02 pm
Just added this thing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... maellmclnh

For me it's https://tranquility.ushnisha.com/, but I seldom use it.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:36 am

Witness wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:27 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:02 pm
Just added this thing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... maellmclnh
For me it's https://tranquility.ushnisha.com/, but I seldom use it.

I may do a comparison.

Not right now.

Abdul Alhazred · Post by **Abdul Alhazred** » Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:42 pm

Checked it out.
I still prefer "Reader View".
https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html

What I particularly like is the "Switch to Reader View" context-menu item, while being able to make the rest of the stuff nearly invisible.

But like you, I find I'm not using it much.
Basically for the occasional link to Fox News which is a particularly ill behaved site.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:22 pm

Once you've gotten rid of the ads, pop-ups & overlays, most sites are OK-ish. (I had to use un-modded Edge recently, the experience made me wonder how people put up with that.)

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