🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Damon wrote:

> Hi, Beartooth.  I did a search on freshmeat.net with the keyword privacy
> and came up with these apps.  Let us know if you try them  :-)
	(snip)
> Here's the second:
>
> Internet Junkbuster (snip)

	I've had junkbuster running for some time -- and
only a day ir three ago finally managed to make the correct
entries into opera (my main browser since way before I got
linux) to get it to use jb as its proxy. That did help
(some) with the amazingly obnoxious ads on opera; but I
can't judge anything about spyware.

> And you should perhaps look at the latest versions of web
> browsers-- such as Opera or Galeon.  They may have these
> features built in.  I remember when I tried Opera that it
> had some good cookie management stuff at least.

	Yes, I like that -- though I've found lately that
even though I have it set to accept cookies from the server,
RedHat's server gives me an error message telling me I have
to accept cookies! I wrote to RedHat about that, and I
*think* Galeon now works right with their sites.

	Eventually, I plan to run *one* browser only for
handling places I do accept cookies from -- credit union,
RedHat, etc -- but I can't tell yet which that'll be. I may
run a second just for URLs I get in email from people I
know, and a third for everything else.

	I've been running Galeon for a couple of weeks --
especially since I discovered how to make it emulate opera
in handling several sites at once (and not opening a new
window, nor wiping the last one, every time I open a URL
from an email!)  But the version I have is out of date;
trying to install the update gets me an error message saying
I have to update Mozilla first; trying to install the update
for that gets me an error message -- which I don't
understand.

	I did massive updating from RedHat the night THF
vetted the zlib warning, and have been doing more today; but
the dependency problems, or whatever they are, haven't gone
away yet. I'm in process of paying for priority updating,
and will try again once that's running. If the dependency
problems still don't go away, I'll be back here!

	I do tentatively like Galeon, btw -- but doubt its
safety, especially from ads etc, in the version I have. I do
not like mozilla -- because my version on my machine is pure
cold molasses. :-(

	Also btw, I've been trying out Pan for newsreading.
It's very much a project in progress; but with that caveat,
and despite my negative skill in using it, it seems so far
to be the best thing in sight.
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RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger, PhD, NR (Neo-Redneck) <karhunhammas at lserv.com>
sometime servant of Minerva, Goddess of Knowledge; linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2