On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 06:08:08 +0100, poma wrote: > On 25.11.2013 21:50, Beartooth wrote: >> >> In the past, I have always set my default browser to Dillo, which >> is very fast and very safe; and it usually shows me at least enough to >> guess reasonably well whether I want to go on, switch to another >> browser, >> or skip the site. > > Web browser with rudimentary https/ssl support you are considering safe > [1]. Really? Yes. That has been part of its purpose for well over ten years, if not since inception. It does not accept cookies, nor keep a history file, for instance. It aims to be as nearly minimal as it can, short of being text-only. The idea, as with the early routers, is to have nothing there for a cracker to get hold of. >> I've managed to make it a partial default (under xfce4 in F18). >> Pan, for instance, routinely opens links in Dillo. Alpine, however, >> does not. (I run Alpine on a remote host, over ssh; is that relevant? >> It does open Firefox.) Fwiw, my experience elsewhere is that getting a program on one machine to manage apps on another is not trivial. >> Like so many other things of late, the software to set default >> choices seems to have been moved to some new place, without leaving a >> spoor behind to follow. So the place I found to set defaults is quite >> likely not the main one. What is?? > You too really don't have idea what you're talking about. > Don't you? Is it my imagination, or has the use of common courtesy dropped several levels lately? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
