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To: upchuck

I use Chromium. It’s bright and shiny like Chrome but without all of the nasties.


4 posted on 06/21/2019 3:09:35 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I heard a joke the other day that the CNN poll showed . . . No that was it. The CNN poll.)
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To: BipolarBob

Do you run windows or linux? I thought you had to use a nightly build and compile it yourself to run it on windows. On linux/ubuntu, Chromium is in the standard software repositories, all pre-compiled.

I have Chromium but use Vivaldi which is Chromium based. I like the feature set that Vivaldi has. I have Brave and Firefox too. I use firefox when I find a website (web application really) that doesn’t work with the ‘off brand’ browsers.

The big pita for me is that I use weather.gov aka NWS for my weather and their radar pages run flash and no one wants to support it anymore.

Here’s my local radar. https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=sgf&product=N0R&loop=yes

I have to give Vivaldi permission to run flash on that page, once everyday when I first start the browsing session. Brave won’t run it at all. Of course getting flash on linux is a trick too.

It’s almost real-time and you can set it to auto-update.

They have a radar mosaic that has the entire USA but it doesn’t run flash.
https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

Can’t stand google and have never trusted them, at least ever since I heard an exec say that their dream is for you to be walking down the street and they know there’s a sale on something in a store up ahead that they know you’re interested in due to having your data profile so they can tell you about the sale. All based on your surfing and purchase history. Big Brother.


59 posted on 06/22/2019 6:02:16 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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