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Re: Google Chrome oddity

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From: Cydrome Leader
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:09
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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>> > Chrome with plugins disabled works fine, and it's even better with
>> > AdBlock+ and DoNotTrack+. Firefox's memory bloat is inexcusable.
>> 
>> It's always firefox assholes bitching and moaning about how computers are 
>> too hard and everything is broken.
>> 
>> IE works fine for everything I do, and it's not sending my registry back 
>> to google or apple every 30 seconds, or using all 31 bits of memory it can 
>> address before crashing like acrobat reader.
> 
> I thought you were joking about IE.  I fired up IE to check it out and 
> after dealing with all the parasitic apps that placed a toolbar into IE 
> the browser was pretty quiet.  Using IE means I'd have to chase windows  
> software updates.  I only update my windows boxes about once a year -- 

wrong. it's automatic. there's nothing to chase. windows is easy, it 
really is. Once in a while when you shut down it installs some updates. 
Big deal. Windows defender or security essentials or whatever it's called 
just updates all the time itself. 


> about the same schedule as changing the smoke alarm batteries.  I rarely 
> ever update apps.

you sure waste alot of time screwing around with shit browers when your 
computer already has one that actually works, doesn't spy on you and 
doesn't suck. You're just making stuff hard for no reason.

> Got rid of the firefox update BS but there was some tom foolery 
> involved.  Had to manually delete some files in Firefox' AppData 
> directory.  Full info here:
> 
> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925940
> 
> Also you can turn off safe browsing by doing this:
> 
> http://avinashtech.com/google/disable-google-safe-browsing-firefox/
> 
> 
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From: Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
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Subject: Re: Google Chrome oddity
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:09:53 +0000 (UTC)
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