New Monitor, No Problems, Blow away Firefox, Cured Problems (A Little Off Topic?)
So the Acer LCD monitor was getting harder to see (in spite of extremely successful cataract surgery on both eyes about six months ago), glasses or no glasses. Nothing wrong with it, just harder to read, not so sharp.
Off to Staples (needed ink cartridges), stop in the monitors aisle, wow, look at those LED things. Hm. Samsung, HP, couple of others. Grabbed an HP Pavilion 23xi 23-inch Diagonal IPS LED Backlit Monitor (on sale, decent price). Brought it home, got all the parts and pieces out and together, plugged 'er in with the VGA cable, woo eee! It's big, it's bright, it's beautiful (at native 1920x1080). I can see, I can see! Look at some high resolution images, wow. And this is with Intel graphics, no ATI, no Nvidea, no "proprietary drivers," no nuthin, just works (well I did have to press and hold the autoconfigure button for ten seconds, but what the heck). Firefox has been sitting there blinking "waiting for..." for minutes. Time to blow away 10+ years of ~/.mozilla and start over. Didn't want to loose all the saved passwords and bookmarks so did a little reading and asking (at Mozilla) and saved Code:
key3.db places.sqlite signons.sqlite Yeah, I did export the bookmarks to a JSON file, just in case, but turns out that what Mozilla says in their documentation actually works. No more "waiting for..." No delays. Installed NoScript and Adblock Plus; Adblock Plus has a new feature. When you install it, down the page that pops up a ways are blockers you can enable that block all that Facebook, Twitter and other social media bullshit that web pages seem to insist you need to look at (so you can "find us on blah"). That and malware (well, they do support Windows, so...) and some other crap blockers. Turn 'em on at install, bye-bye eye pollution. Now I just have to go find the prefs.logo file so the Slackware logo will appear in posts... I know I've got that stashed somewhere around here. Last thing is start experimenting with alternate monitor connections. The VGA is lookin' good, but, it's got a HDMI1 plug and it's got a digital plug (and some other stuff I've never heard of) and it's time to fiddle around and experiment a little (if, that is, the computer has those same plugs and they actually work, eh?). Well, I guess it's a lot off-topic, sorry. |
Isn't that what your LQ web log is for, then?..
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http://adversity.uk.to/ It works and it seems that, without junk, pages are loaded a bit faster. |
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adblock: not necessary, get rid of this crap by using this hosts file: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
noscript: just browse the web with javascript disabled. if there is a page which *really* needs js, then its probably not worth reading it. if you are looking for a decent, almost-except-the-rendering-engine bloat free browser: http://surf.suckless.org/. unix is about combining the tools you have, no need to use a bloated browser like firesucks, including "plugins", which make it even worse. |
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Same with Adblock. I don't see ads on any sites, don't care to either. It's automagic and I don't have to screw around to make it work, it just does. The longer I do this stuff the more reluctant I get when it comes to dealing with crap; if something works and eliminates crap, I'm good with that. Thanks for the thoughts. |
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https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (However, I don't use it as I share this computer and some sites stopped working; also, I click Alien BOB's ads from time to time, so I stick with Adblock Edge …) As for NoScript, using it with RequestPolicy you have a more fine-grained control about what to allow. Also to consider: Running Firefox as Another User |
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For effective, usable and efficient distro and browser-agnostic filtering you can't beat a filtering proxy. |
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Glad you finally were able to upgrade. Enjoy the sights! |
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