Hi Kari,
I thought it was you who had mentioned browser alternatives, which seems to have been the case based on this post. At this point, I have a tremendous investment in the use of FireFox, and a considerable roster of its extensions. Although there are some unique extensions over in Chrome, which I also use, the latter is not really comparable in terms of functionality. (That said, certain features like Print Preview, are actually superior in Chrome. Unfortunately, FF has been rather stupidly moving in a Chrome-clone direction.)
I'm writing because I just saw this disturbing item
--> read the developer comment dated 8/21/15, about the impending demise of XUL based extensions. If this is accurate, it will truly sink the ship. AdBlock, NoScript, and a bunch of others that I depend upon will just be gone, drastically damaging the whole browsing experience. Unless there remain some forks of FF (ESR ? Pale Moon ? or _____ ?) that decide to stay the course, and decline to adopt these changes. But then there will be questions about continued development and security issues.
I am already disgusted with the intrusive, over-reaching Signing | Approval thing that recently came in with new FF versions, which has cast its unwelcome shadow over several valuable extensions that I've been using for a long time. I deeply resent any attempts to tell me what I can or can't use, can or can't do with my computer.
Jordan
From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: 7 vs 8.1
Bill,
>For example, I have a
modern Dell laptop running Win 7 which is dedicated only to my my
work
with Fontlab
and to music playing. For music I use either
Foobar
2000 or a browser, usually chrome, for youtube. At the moment, I
have
found that there is a video of Artur Rubenstein 78 reissues which
invariably takes over the system after about an hour. No other
program
will be available, no keystroke will work including ctr-alt-del. The
video will play on and on but the rest of the computer is not
functioning. The only way to stop it is to cut the power.
This is where one needs a virtual machine, just tick the X and the
virtual machine is killed.
>I think we can
safely say that this is a perfect example of Flash causing an OS
crash.
Instances of Flash crashing Win 7 seem common; but they don't seem
to
happen in Win 8.1. My impression is that they really did do a lot of
work
to minimize or eliminate problems of this kind.
This may be true. And by all means, I am not against Win 8.1. It can
be better, but I am an old hack and I am unwilling to learn new
tricks.
>Browsers are the problem !! And Chrome is probably the most
stable, but
that isn't good enough.
Have a look at:
https://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php?key5sk0=2005&key5sk1=6f75493afd276942da9d8ae0509aca838cba9d02
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx
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