[HLUG] Firefox Re: Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1902, Issue 1

[George DiceGeorge]

Firefox Master Password
is a good thing I think
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-master-password-protect-stored-logins

[g]

Kevin
its a bit confusing when you reply to digests
as the subject of the thread disappears,
thats why i dont use digest mode

[g]



-----Original Message----- 
From: Kevin Dontenville
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 12:26 PM
To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1902, Issue 1

Hi Geoff

I run Jessie on my main desktop and other distros here and there and in many 
places I do get sign-in requests as features loading on the page are called 
eg voting or comments etc. They don't usually stop me playing or accessing 
the information but they do obstruct and annoy.

I also see some ads and trackers want to connect you back to an account so 
they can link information collected across platforms and services to help 
enrich your browsing experience with more targeted ads or similar!

I use adblockers in most places until I feel happy to support or trust a 
site that depends on ads but that is now difficult to judge. Part of the new 
wave of malware is embedded in ads and few sites have any control over what 
is delivered by the platforms that supply the revenue ads to them, other 
than the general type being appropriate. Most of the platforms check ad 
content when accepting an ad but the ad can change at any point, eg the 
advertiser may be hacked or the ad may be specifically edited at the landing 
or on the code that pulls data in etc.

I use ghostery to check and block third party cookies and tracking and 
several versions of the ad-blockers on different browsers. I also use TOR 
browser http://torproject.org/ at times as the annoyance factors rise 
although I tend to stick to non video sites for speed and it is also then 
you notice the subtle use of flash on sites to get and write info from/to 
your pc to identify you and sites visited uniquely using the license 
features.

Generally I use firefox and the add-ons mentioned and I get faster, cleaner, 
safer browsing. Chrome appears faster but it prevents a some of the 
protection from working as effectively which is down to judgement of the 
user. When firefox changes next it is expected to use the isolation of 
tabs/sites like chrome which will make it faster but use more memory though 
increase safety/robustness more which will be a good thing.

Not sure if that would help you specifically but its the closest I have of 
the sort of experience you mention.

BTW FASTER INTERNET! We recently got upgraded to 20Mb/s ADSL2+ up here so we 
get 18Mb/s down, 1Mb/s up and pings of 15ms to major sites - the engineer 
said the fibre was in ready for next year when we can get 80Mb/s down, 
20Mb/s up. North Herefordshire seems to be making some progress, anyone else 
seen improvements?

Kind regards

Kevin
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