Chrome to Firefox …
After several years with Firefox I switched to Chrome for a short period of time because Firefox, with their many updates, would sometimes create their own problems which would really slow up (or cause problems with) Firefox until they resolved those new problems. Well, that switch turned out to last quite a long time … or, I forget how long ago it was.
But ... I always kept both Firefox and Chrome up to date, just in case. So, sick of Chrome's current problems (specifically while at iHub; and more specific Chrome limitations regarding capturing videos at any site within the browser), I tried (and did a serious evaluation) of the current Firefox at the iHub site. It was like a deep breath of fresh air!
So, here's a unique problem that Chrome has: every site out there knows that Chrome fishes for information, and many of those sites want to share in that bounty, so they do everything they can to thwart any add-ons to Chrome (such as Adblock) which are designed to limit fishing. That’s specifically true at iHub because their existence depends on revenue from ads.
Because of my recent problems with Chrome (with Adblock) while at iHub, and after making a few tests (with and without Adblock), then comparing that to Firefox with NoScript, my path forward became a no-brainer.
To be fair, I think most of the problems are with Adblock on Chrome and not Chrome itself, and those problems are exaggerated while at iHub. But, there are fundamental structural differences between the two browsers that make it easy to capture (download) content from Firefox, and which is impossible with Chrome.
So, for the sake of starting fresh and comparing Firefox (with NoScript) with Chrome (with Adblock), I first deleted my current Firefox, then rebooted the computer, then installed the latest version of Firefox. Then I tried it out at iHub, since that’s where most of the problems were. Worked great, and even some ads that could not be deleted with Chrome (with Adblock) were completely gone with Firefox (with NoScript)! That’s good enough for me.
Bringing in bookmarks from Chrome is easy peasy. My situation might be worse because over the years I migrated from Firefox to Chrome, then added a lot of new bookmarks and did some reorganization on parts of it, then migrated back to Firefox. So this was really hanging over my head this morning as being a potential nightmare. Turned out to be really easy and you can exactly duplicate within Firefox what you had in Chrome. This was probably thought about a lot by the programmers at Firefox because attracting new users from other browsers is their most important motive. So, I thought I would have a ton of work to do, but going to the bookmarks editor and importing new bookmarks and moving things around and adding and deleting took only a few minutes. Hey, I think I might have spent more time in the bathroom taking a dump this morning!
But, only one problem (which is probably easily solved, assuming I want to): While formatting this response, I noticed that I can't use the formatting buttons at the left of the message editor. That's probably caused by NoScript, so all I have to do is open NoScript and selectively disable each of its filters until I find the one that is preventing the use of those formatting buttons. Or I can do the opposite process: disable all filters then selectively enable filters to get rid of ads.
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I gave AT&T the boot probably over two years ago. They changed my service when my plan expired and drastically increased my fees without asking me first. My local-call wire-line plan was about $14 per month, and now it was going to be $50/mo, then add to that the long distance charges. I complained so they gave me part of my money back but nowhere near all, so I totally cancelled their service and installed Magic Jack. Then AT&T called me back and explained that they had lower-cost options. Hey, I already had one of those, don't you keep records, and why did you not just renew it???!!! So I paid Magic Jack 5-years in advance and that pays for all my local calls and all my long-distance calls within the US and many other countries, and all of that for 5-yrs was only $125. That's $2.08 per month.
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