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SeaMonkey. I like having a modern browser with the retro Mozilla Classic look via a theme at addons.mozilla.org . I also like having the email client integrated with the browser.
Can we have the Iridium Browser please, Jeremy? It is a Chromium fork that stops all background requests to Google servers, and with better defaults for privacy. They too have up-to-date packages for us who want to install the latest Chromium on older systems like Debian Wheezy!
And regarding Firefox, not only has Mozilla made so many bad decisions recently, but their browser is getting slower and slower with each release. If I could, I would downvote their browser to oblivion!
I feel it's perhaps not the browser but conspiracy against it, like the electric car?
I guess it doesn't make that much difference now. Die Firefox, die! Or at least I want Gecko to die! They should make a better browser out of WebKit or Blink. There are those who are afraid of the rendering engine monopoly, but both engines are free, so Mozilla should really stop beating the dead horse, and instead of developing Servo, then just fork WebKit or Blink!
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Can we have the Iridium Browser.... It is a Chromium fork that stops all background requests to Google servers, and with better defaults for privacy......
As I liked the idea of it being more secure than Chromium, I downloaded the windows version of Iridium and ran it in Xp. It may not call google, but it does "call home" to Iridium and if you "deny" it, the browser refuses to work.
Vivaldi does that same thing, that is, if you don't let it call back to Vivaldi, it won't work.
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As I liked the idea of it being more secure than Chromium, I downloaded the windows version of Iridium and ran it in Xp. It may not call google, but it does "call home" to Iridium and if you "deny" it, the browser refuses to work.
Vivaldi does that same thing, that is, if you don't let it call back to Vivaldi, it won't work.
They said that they have just replaced the Google servers with their own for testing, but I thought they had already fixed this... I think I'll have to report a bug, and see their reaction.
They said that they have just replaced the Google servers with their own for testing, but I thought they had already fixed this... I think I'll have to report a bug, and see their reaction.
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