On Thursday 20 August 2020 15:19:41 Janek Stolarek wrote: > > Now why, I ask, should Google get something via wget from my machine when > > Vivaldi starts up? > > What happens if you got Vivalid Settings -> Privacy and disable using of > Google's DNS and privacy protection services? (I totally realize the irony > of this - Google offering privacy protection against 3rd parties. Duh.) > > Janek > Okay, sorry for the delay. It took me a while to get round to your question, but as I said it is that time of the month. I need to pay bills, and do business-type stuff online, and Vivaldi-snapshot at present is useful for those tasks. I already had Google privacy protection turned off, pretty much Google everything turned off, except for Google DNS, so I don't know if there is much difference. What *did* happen, however, was really annoying. When I upgraded Vivaldi-Snapshot to the most recent build, I suddenly lost all my settings: started getting cookies I didn't want, V would remember my browsing history, even reset my home page, totally undid my preferences. Then I tried to remember how I had it, and restored my settings. I'm pretty sure that this happened once before, too. I was still getting used to Vivaldi, maybe 6 months or a year ago, so my memory of the details is fuzzy, but I seem to recall my settings were wiped after an upgrade. Vivaldi is definitely better than Chromium. While doing a little online research (shopping for hardware), Chromium made my system come almost to a complete halt, and I would sit there for five or ten minutes just waiting to scroll up or down a few lines. Vivaldi doesn't give me any of those problems, but still needs work, I would say. Or maybe I need to explore it further; but thus far I have not unlocked its mysteries. It would be nice to look inside, like I can do with Mozilla-type browsers, and Vivaldi should have about:config. Among other browsers out there, IMHO worth checking out: Midori, Qupzilla, and Seamonkey. There is supposed to be a Chromium-ungoogled, too, something like that, available in repositories: Chromium with everything Google removed. I just heard about it a few days ago. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
