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Polarbear |
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Polarbear Super Spammer
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Posted: 15:19 - 25 Nov 2017 Post subject: Firefox Quantum |
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Just a quick comment on the new Firefox Quantum (v57) in that it is bloody fast compared with my last version.
I've used Firefox for ages and prefer it to Chrome and this new one is good although it seems from comments a lot of extensions wont work with it at present.
I just thought I'd throw this in incase anyone is still using Netscape and doesn't know what to change up to. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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oldpink World Chat Champion
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Posted: 15:30 - 25 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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yes its fast but I have issues with it, I can't get my Virgin TV anywhere to work
I even installed the Legacy pack but no joy so forced to use one of my changes per month to my Virgin account
as I had to use IE to use the player now ____________________ I have become comfortably numb
Theory & hazard 24-may 2016, CBT 8th June 2016, MOD 1 2nd Aug 2016 Mod 2 2nd-Nov 2016 - Current bike CBR 600 RR |
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Islander World Chat Champion
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P. Red Rocket
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Posted: 08:29 - 02 Dec 2017 Post subject: |
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Quantum seems to be using a weird way to send certain SSL requests, it's not following the RFC. As such, is bypassing parts of firewalls/content filters
Unfortunately part of my job is to lock that down, this browser isn't as honest as Chrome and tells lies. Fast though, very fast. |
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Islander World Chat Champion
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Going wrote: |
Hears a quote from the Wiki:
Quote: | According to Lifehacker, Iron doesn't really offer much you can't get by configuring Google Chrome's privacy settings.According to others, it is scamware or scareware, since the developers bring up non-existent issues about Chrome to claim Iron solves it.
Although SRWare has been claiming "Iron is free and OpenSource", this wasn't true from at least version 6 on until mid 2015, as the links given by them for the source code were hosted in RapidShare and blocked by the uploader. SRWare Iron "is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6". According to Lifehacker, as of October 2014 SRWare Iron was "supposedly open source but haven't released their source for years". In 2015, SRWare resumed releasing what they claim is the source code for the browser, although not stating on their page what version the source code is from. |
Also other sources claim that it's slow to update security patches once they've been added to Chrome/Chromium, which SRware is based on. |
I've known about and used Iron as an alternative pretty much since its inception. The privacy settings referred to in the Lifehacker statement were available in the Linux versions of Chrome, but not in the Windows releases - that may have changed but nonetheless, Google don't make it particularly easy to take control.
Iron has always been available free of charge to the end user AFAIK. I may have missed a couple of years - primarily when Firefox was a lean efficient browser, but I've never had any problems with downloading it.
Also, Source code has always been available:
https://download1.srware.net/source/src.7z
https://download1.srware.net/source/src1.7z
The developer can come across as a bit of a knob sometimes which, I suspect, is why Iron has its critics. It is a good browser, it uses Chrome plugins, it has all of the Google reporting code removed rather than disabled, and it is updated regularly.
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supZ World Chat Champion
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 117 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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