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<just thinking aloud> Firing a bunch of developers and shortening the update release cycle intervals may not be compatible with ensuring software quality. </just thinking aloud> This showed up for me yesterday, I was updating some bank info and want to go to a separate page and Firefox refused to l...

I have a 6 TB USB backup drive.

I partitioned it into two halves, NTFS and EXT4.

that gives me all the options I need, Windows is happy, Linux don't care.

bring up Preferences/Extensions/Themes and select Blue and orange.

FoxClone has been a lifesaver for me

I now opened my bank account did a search for Flash.

they don't use it.

Hi AZg, here is my list of addons and none of them are posing a problem. In one of your screen shots, i saw something called Facebook "Messanger"...its not spelled correctly as it should be "Messenger"...unless that is something very unique to Firefox add-on extensions, it makes me wonder whether t...

@AZgl1500 The issue with that web site only appear when I login, so I guess it is a bad example. My banking site also has issue which is a bigger concern.I contacted the bank and they were aware there is an issue but have not done anything. I loaded Firefox in safe mode which I think disables all e...

I had that problem a couple months ago, then it just went away with a new release.
vs 82.0 here also.

I followed that link and it came right up w/o any issues at all.

here is my list of addons and none of them are posing a problem.

you could turn on Mouse Trails. I looked at all the menus, and don't see any mention of changing the Mouse pointer, outside the Text area, it is the normal bigger pointer, I have changed that to huge.... which caused the Vertical line in Writer to be taller. Tried to do a PrtScrn but that does not s...

Larry78723 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:38 am

What are your firewall settings?

along with this suggestion, use Steve Gibson's Shields Up to test to see if your PC/notebook is open to outside intrustions


https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2


I just ran this for myself with this result

Parmanand Motiramani wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:49 am

antikythera wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:34 am

AZgl1500 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:56 am

move the mouse, or strike a key

Shout wake up really loudly

all I have to do is yell at the dogs for fighting in the house, every laptop's screen that is blank, wakes up right now

move the mouse, or strike a key

those of using Laptops are stuck with what came in the box. :x systemd-analyze Startup finished in 4.518s (firmware) + 2.621s (loader) + 4.442s (kernel) + 8.224s (userspace) = 19.807s graphical.target reached after 7.447s in userspace System: Host: FX705GM Kernel: 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64 co...

I tried to do a Screenshot of the HVAC app on my phone, got the message "Screeshots not allowed due to Privacy Rultes" So, I will just give a link to the app that works with my Honeywell Thermostat. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.honeywell.mobile.android.totalComfort&hl=en So, if...

I am thoroughly hooked to the HiTech world, I can control the HVAC with my Smartphone. HVAC? Is that like a Hoover? Only joking. I tried to do a Screenshot of the HVAC app on my phone, got the message "Screeshots not allowed due to Privacy Rultes" So, I will just give a link to the app that works w...

I had to look up nous , a word that I was not familiar with at all, being that I live on the left side of the Pond. We'll edumacate you yet :) Do you have a chimbley in your house? As a MaddaFact we do, but it never sees any Kindling in it.... It has a Natural Gas pipe run to it. those things are t...

I had to look up nous, a word that I was not familiar with at all, being that I live on the left side of the Pond.


noun
noun: nous

1.
informal•British
common sense; practical intelligence.
"if he had any nous at all, he'd sell the movie rights"

I'm using Firefox,
never had a problem watching YouTube videos.

just finished a documentary on a skydiver who's airplane went into a spin, and he dove out of the plane, it crashed.

he spent 48 hours floating in the ocean before he was found.

You can tailor the language for English US. There's the locale setting. In Firefox you can right click a word and get option to set the language, or add any variety of your own misspelled words, -and it's a setting in the settings where you click the hamburger. It's probably set to English UK. If y...

No matter what version of English you choose, it will NOT be the "American version" I hate that the Spell Checker insists on British spellings, and totally ignores my American corrections. I have noticed this when responding here but I am not sure if it is due to LM or to Firefox where you can also...