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Browser and Storage app

#1 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:21 pm

As a way to put here programs we use and we like or find one to use I would welcome your suggestions about a browser alternate to Mozilla (as far a privacy, stability and speed go) and an app for storing files as an alternate to dropbox. I care both about Win 8.1 PC and android device.

I understand our leader uses the Brave browser which I have downloaded and use but it is less nicely in the basic version in comparison with Mozilla with its various add on.

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#2 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:12 pm

I use Opera.

In the past I used Firefox.

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#3 Post by ian16th » Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:52 am

I use different browsers at different times.

I've been a Firefox fan since it was called Netscape! But I find that Brave is the best for reading newspapers, as it has its own addblocker that somehow doesn't upset many websites. Even the Daily Fail can be read.

I even use Chrome occasionally, but the big no-no is anything from Micro$oft.
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#4 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:34 am

ian16th wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:52 am
I use different browsers at different times.

I've been a Firefox fan since it was called Netscape! But I find that Brave is the best for reading newspapers, as it has its own addblocker that somehow doesn't upset many websites. Even the Daily Fail can be read.

I even use Chrome occasionally, but the big no-no is anything from Micro$oft.
Thanks for the answers so far. Regarding Google and Micro$oft it is more a question where you want your date to be send. I think Washington state is a better place to be.

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#5 Post by Boac » Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:06 am

Long-term and comfortable with Firefox - so many extensions and add-ons available. Why not just back-up your files?

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#6 Post by ian16th » Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:19 am

Boac wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:06 am
Long-term and comfortable with Firefox - so many extensions and add-ons available. Why not just back-up your files?
Firefox with the Video Download Helper add on, is easier to use than anything I've found with Brave.
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#7 Post by Slasher » Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:39 am

Brave for me is good to go in, do your sh!t, get out.
Firefox with addons is a damn beaut.
Opera only used when the VPN sometimes acts up ornery. Dunno why it works betterer.

Google bloody Chrome is only on my work laptop for work only and nothing at all private. Never shall those twains meet.

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#8 Post by Capetonian » Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:18 am

A friend of mine swears by something called Purple Moon (I think?), but then he also believes the earth is flat so ......

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#9 Post by OFSO » Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:17 pm

Like many here, Firefox firstly, Opera backup.

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#10 Post by Alisoncc » Tue Feb 04, 2020 6:25 pm

Capetonian wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:18 am
A friend of mine swears by something called Purple Moon (I think?), but then he also believes the earth is flat so ......
Pale Moon perhaps. My browser of choice. Fork off Firefox with lower overheads.
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#11 Post by ian16th » Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:24 pm

Alisoncc wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 6:25 pm
Capetonian wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:18 am
A friend of mine swears by something called Purple Moon (I think?), but then he also believes the earth is flat so ......
Pale Moon perhaps. My browser of choice. Fork off Firefox with lower overheads.
You should be careful with your words!

Fork Off could be misunderstood by those that are ignorant of things UNIX like o:-)
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