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Leaving Mozilla Today
Wuli | 1/11/2021 | Wuli

Posted on 01/11/2021 7:30:49 AM PST by Wuli

Mozilla has decided to join the Progressive fascists.

I am leaving Mozilla behind as of today.

I am writing this while on the Brave browser. It's just a start in the move from Firefox.

After sufficient investigation today I will move my Email out of the use of the Thunderbird Email client.

I have enjoyed using both Firefox and Thunderbird.

But Mozilla has made continuing with them a treasonous act, cow towing to fascist thought and speech control demands.

I would ask all Conservatives using Mozilla products to follow me in the move away from them.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: boycott; mozilla
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To: jimwatx

So who can help an old geezer like me do all this switching around?

When I was growing up the only thing we had to learn is the tone our phone made for us on the party line.


21 posted on 01/11/2021 7:56:24 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: metmom

I dropped FireFox/Mozilla yesterday. Switched to Brave.


22 posted on 01/11/2021 7:57:00 AM PST by RightGuy
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To: oldasrocks

Just download from here https://brave.com/


23 posted on 01/11/2021 7:59:14 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Wuli

I’ll need to check out Brave.


24 posted on 01/11/2021 8:00:42 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: Wuli

Done but I’m a MAC guy so I am trying several others to find one I like. bye bye Mozilla and I was such a fan


25 posted on 01/11/2021 8:02:02 AM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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To: Wuli

Running on Brave right now - checking it out


26 posted on 01/11/2021 8:03:24 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: Wuli

A bit late. You should have left them when they booted their founder.

That was when they went fascist.


27 posted on 01/11/2021 8:07:04 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: jimwatx

I just downloaded Brave from the link https://brave.com/

My BitDefender virus software detected it was infected.

I have removed this app.

BEWARE!


28 posted on 01/11/2021 8:11:40 AM PST by Wish2Post
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To: Fresh Wind

I noticed Opera loads much faster. Should have switched long ago.


29 posted on 01/11/2021 8:21:26 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Wuli

Did it yesterday.


30 posted on 01/11/2021 8:23:45 AM PST by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: Wuli

DuckDuckGo has a Browser at both the APP Store. I’m using it right now.


31 posted on 01/11/2021 8:30:49 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Safrguns

See #31


32 posted on 01/11/2021 8:32:38 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Library Lady

Microsoft claims to have moved Hotmail uses over to Outlook.com.

Politically Hotmail was hosted on MSN.Com and MSN was Microsoft’s web portal for news and access to Hotmail Email accounts. But used to be related to MSNBC. No more. Microsoft sold MSNBC to Comcast.

We will to wait to see how much or if Microsoft joins the Leftist cancel culture against the 75 million Trump supporters.

I never liked Outlook - did not want to be dominated by Microsoft. That is part of why I went to Thunderbird. The other reason was I did not want to be actually “doing” my Email sitting on Verizon’s or anyone else’s servers.

I wanted to use a true Email client application and with it set up for POP accounts. With a POP account you can execute a function that goes out to your actual Email account (with whomever is has your Email server - which can always be whomever delivers your Internet service if you just use their default Email service) - and your Email client application performs the password handshake with your Email server and then gets your Emails - downloaded onto your PC - and can simultaneously delete them from your Email host’s system. Then you are reading and composing Eamil on your own PC. The only other time your Email client app is making any Internet connection is just to for a few seconds send an outgoing Email.

That is a true POP account set up and Thunderbird did that very well.

Now many of these Email client applications are encouraging the use IMAP Email accounts instead of POP. I do not do that because an IMAP account, as long as you are Internet connected, is keeping you connected to the Internet Email server, because all it is really trying to do is “mirror” what is on that server.

With a true POP account in an Email client application, you control if and when you need Internet connection for that account and your PC, independently, has every Email you have ever selected to get and keep. From a security perspective your Email client application is not “open” to the Internet - not an open application in that portion of your PC operating system that is performing the Internet access - except for those very few instances you decide to get or send Email.


33 posted on 01/11/2021 8:36:57 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

I switched to Brave.. that seems to be ok.


34 posted on 01/11/2021 8:39:29 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: mabarker1

All I seem to find with DuckDuckGo was a browser privacy extension that can be added as an extension in Brave. I did not see a separate browser offer from them.


35 posted on 01/11/2021 8:39:44 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Pikachu_Dad

“You should have left them when they booted their founder.”

You are write, and like you that action did upset me and I considered leaving Firefox and Thunderbird at that time. I have plenty of excuses I considered reasons for not doing it before now. All of them were just laziness and resistance to change from what I was comfortable with, and frankly what I was happy with in terms of the operations.

My bad, I agree.


36 posted on 01/11/2021 8:43:26 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Changed over this AM


37 posted on 01/11/2021 8:47:31 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (Your tagline sucked, so it was deleted - Admin)
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To: Wuli

Any decent alternatives to Thunderbird? I have mine set up to fetch emails from multiple addresses, a mix of POP and IMAP.


38 posted on 01/11/2021 8:56:42 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Wuli

Um,... Thunderbird hasn’t been Mozilla for a number of years.

Independent, funded by contributions.

I’m still on Firefox, but it’s an old, old revn. that runs on top of XP-Pro. Mozilla hasn’t updated it in years, so any chicanery they pull today or going forward will pass me by.


39 posted on 01/11/2021 9:04:37 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Wuli

I’ve been on Brave for 2 years and am happy with it.


40 posted on 01/11/2021 9:32:59 AM PST by KobraKai
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