Author Topic: Brave browser (Read 4859 times)

TechMan · « **Reply #50 on:** January 13, 2021, 10:57:56 PM »

Quote from: lee n. field on January 13, 2021, 09:21:50 PM

They still tick along.

3 or 4 years ago, a customer of mine that has a shop full of CNC machines handed me an old full height 5.25" 10 megabyte MFM Seagate hard disk. It came out of one of his machines. It might have been the machine he asked me about once: "Can you do anything with PDP-11?"

A friend of mine has a couple of CNC mills and asked me to get the machines up and going, so I had to recall my DOS 6.22 knowledge.

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230RN · « **Reply #51 on:** January 14, 2021, 06:54:45 AM »

I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?

I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.

I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.

I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.

HeroHog · « **Reply #52 on:** January 14, 2021, 04:43:10 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on January 14, 2021, 06:54:45 AM

I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?

I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.

I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.

I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.

Got a copy of Spinrite? Used to be the tool for aligning floppy discs and fixing borked hard drives.

lee n. field · « **Reply #53 on:** January 14, 2021, 04:51:35 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on January 14, 2021, 06:54:45 AM

I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?

I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.

I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.

I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.

Zenith's version of DOS could install on larger hard drives than was the usual limit back in the day. (Fallible memory says 20MB C: was the limit 1990-ish, and you would use weird formatting software to get around that.)

MS DOS 4 broke that limit. DOS 5 was a whole lot more useful than 4. 6 had a reputation for being a disaster, but I never had a problem with it. 6.1 was the final M$ version.

lee n. field · « **Reply #54 on:** January 14, 2021, 04:55:02 PM »

Quote from: HeroHog on January 14, 2021, 04:43:10 PM

Got a copy of Spinrite? Used to be the tool for aligning floppy discs and fixing borked hard drives.

Aligning floppy drives, oh, I remember doing that, though it was slightly before my time getting paid for this.

And I remember full height Shugart 5.25 drives had a label with a strobe pattern on them, for tweaking speed.

bedlamite · « **Reply #55 on:** January 16, 2021, 01:13:51 PM »

It's time to deplatform Mozilla.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

Ben · « **Reply #56 on:** January 16, 2021, 01:29:13 PM »

Quote from: bedlamite on January 16, 2021, 01:13:51 PM

It's time to deplatform Mozilla.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

Yup. I'm done with Firefox. As mentioned elsewhere, I've been trying different browsers weekly on my new computer. I will probably try a couple more, like Waterfox, but I think I'm settled on Brave.

Blakenzy · « **Reply #57 on:** January 16, 2021, 01:57:10 PM »

I've switched to Brave about a couple of weeks ago and really can't tell any difference in daily use. Maybe Brave feels a little leaner because I don't have all those extensions installed.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #58 on:** January 16, 2021, 02:15:01 PM »

Quote from: bedlamite on January 16, 2021, 01:13:51 PM

It's time to deplatform Mozilla.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

Yup, they lost me with -

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But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality.

*expletive deleted*ck off Mozilla

Ben · « **Reply #59 on:** January 16, 2021, 02:20:43 PM »

Quote from: Blakenzy on January 16, 2021, 01:57:10 PM

I've switched to Brave about a couple of weeks ago and really can't tell any difference in daily use. Maybe Brave feels a little leaner because I don't have all those extensions installed.

The only issues I've had, and it's because of my stricter security settings, is some sites won't display correctly or will lock up. Fox Business and twitchy are examples. For that I have just been opening them in Edge, and for other sites, I guess I simply don't care as much about the internet as I did, because if I can't see them correctly, I just move on. I might replace Edge with Waterfox as the "backup browser", though surprisingly, MS has not been nearly as SJW as the other tech giants.

Mozilla absolutely disappointed me more than any of the others. I guess I always expected the totalitarianism stuff from the likes of Google, but I've used Mozilla since the Netscape days, and more than any of the others, they always made a big show of how they were about internet freedom. They are turning into the worst of the bunch.

bedlamite · « **Reply #60 on:** January 16, 2021, 02:26:29 PM »

I've heard it's a good idea to keep Google Chrome, and use it only when you visit a google website, and this will isolate them some from your info when you use Brave.

Ben · « **Reply #61 on:** January 16, 2021, 02:32:02 PM »

Quote from: bedlamite on January 16, 2021, 02:26:29 PM

I've heard it's a good idea to keep Google Chrome, and use it only when you visit a google website, and this will isolate them some from your info when you use Brave.

At the risk of a tangent, I'm looking at ways to still use some of the google conveniences, like google nav, but isolating the google tools from everything else I do. Maybe one of my old smart phones on wireless or something. That way I completely air gap it from my main computer and can take it in the car.

MillCreek · « **Reply #62 on:** February 16, 2021, 11:41:15 AM »

One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.

Ben · « **Reply #63 on:** February 16, 2021, 11:47:33 AM »

Quote from: MillCreek on February 16, 2021, 11:41:15 AM

One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.

I have not seen this.

WLJ · « **Reply #64 on:** February 16, 2021, 11:48:29 AM »

Quote from: MillCreek on February 16, 2021, 11:41:15 AM

One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.

Have had zero issues

K Frame · « **Reply #65 on:** February 16, 2021, 12:03:43 PM »

I've not used Brave that much but I've not noticed any performance issues at all with it.

lee n. field · « **Reply #66 on:** February 16, 2021, 12:22:46 PM »

Ditto, to all the folks with no problem yet with Brave. No problems yet.

TechMan · « **Reply #67 on:** February 16, 2021, 12:50:25 PM »

No problems at all with Brave, I use it on a workstation and a tablet.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #68 on:** February 16, 2021, 12:53:03 PM »

Quote from: MillCreek on February 16, 2021, 11:41:15 AM

One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.

I haven't noticed that, either, but I used to have that problem with Firefox.

MillCreek · « **Reply #69 on:** February 16, 2021, 01:11:39 PM »

Well, crud, that must mean that I have a unique program or extension that is not playing well with Brave, and those can be the devil to track down.

Ron · « **Reply #70 on:** February 16, 2021, 01:12:41 PM »

If I leave a window open and use another browser, when I come back it will do that once in a great while.

I should probably make it a point to shut my browsers down when not using them.

fifth_column · « **Reply #71 on:** February 16, 2021, 02:27:26 PM »

Quote from: adively on February 16, 2021, 12:50:25 PM

No problems at all with Brave, I use it on a workstation and a tablet.

Ha! When I first glanced at this post I thought it said "I use it on a workstation and toilet"

TechMan · « **Reply #72 on:** February 16, 2021, 03:34:29 PM »

Quote from: fifth_column on February 16, 2021, 02:27:26 PM

Ha! When I first glanced at this post I thought it said "I use it on a workstation and toilet"

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #73 on:** February 16, 2021, 03:35:46 PM »

Quote from: adively on February 16, 2021, 03:34:29 PM

Gunkid's bathroom?

HeroHog · « **Reply #74 on:** February 16, 2021, 04:01:51 PM »

My Brave browser has been fine. The only time I had any issues was when I needed to reboot my notebook as I had run a ton of stuff for days without a reboot and ya know how Windows can get...

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