Re: The Week That Wasn't

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 19:58:25 -0700
 > 
 > I am turning into an American.  Firefox died on me; I run it and it
 > starts opening infinitely many identical windows.  And of course
 > their latest version broke all their extensions so it doesn't work
 > anyway.  And for a long time I've been complaining about how
 > Thunderbird keeps getting in loops and giving me the spinning
 > beachball of death for five or six minutes before finally waking
 > up.  (No, not exaggerating.  What the hell is it doing for 300
 > billion cycles?)  So I have officially given up on Mozilla, and I'm
 > using Chrome and (Apple) Mail.

I had to switch to Brave browser.  It's derived from Chrome, so,
unlike Firefox and its derivatives, all web sites actually render
correctly.  It is also privacy-oriented and doesn't send all your info
to Google HQ.

I'll outline my whole browser saga in my annual solstice message.  A
total drag.

 > Chrome, the main problem is it telling Google everything I do, of
 > course.  And there are a bunch of extensions it doesn't have.  And
 > I can't get it to separate the search bar from the URL navigation
 > bar.

I hate this, too.

 > And therefore, it doesn't start a new tab when I search for
 > something, so I have to remember to do that myself.

Ditto.

 > And it hasn't learned all my passwords yet.

I was actually able to import all my passwords into Brave.  And bookmarks.
I couldn't transfer my browsing history.  ⌢

 > No Emacs keybindings.

Another ditto.