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Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot

Posted by timothy on from the ooh-shiny dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you're reading this on Chrome, you're part of a wave that has ditched Internet Explorer or Firefox and helped vault Google's browser to the top Web browser spot worldwide." Are you reading this on Chrome? (I'm using Chromium right now, but that's pretty close.)

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  1. HOSTS do same & more, 4 less by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HOSTS files can filter out things @ THE IP STACK LEVEL, no 3rd party apps & their "weight" involved!

    (They run @ the PnP driver level in other words)

    That's ESPECIALLY FAST, since it's only really a "filter"/"little black book reference cache" for the IP stack itself, 1st of all, & secondly because it's not running strictly in usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 operations (more overhead & slower by far vs. kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 level programs like drivers, & yes, the IP stack).

    (Thus, one doesn't need a program to do the same job (thus, not wasting CPU cycles, & other forms of I/O, thus electricity, as much as you need to in order to run a proxy))

    Additionally?

    HOSTS files also can speed up access to sites by:

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    1.) Blocking out adbanners which eat up your bandwidth & speed you pay for (your money in other words)

    2) "Hardcoding" in your fav. sites into it (with their IP address to domain/host name put into hosts files properly)...

    a.) This also avoids DNS request logs (tracking)

    b.) DNSBL's (DNS blocklists)

    (The latter 2 are a nice "bonus" for 'anonymity/security' @ a personal computer users home system level even because of HOSTS if customized thus...)

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    Personally, I combine HOSTS files ability to block out HOST/DOMAIN names with firewall (both hardware & software based) rules tables for these purposes for speed (vs. adbanners mainly), & yes, for security (vs. all the known malicious threats possible growing daily here online)

    YES - I even work @ the browser level like the person you replied to - Easily done via addons like:

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    A.) NoScript for FF
    B.) AdBlock for FF
    C.) WOT for IE/FF
    D.) Perspectives for IE/FF
    E.) IE 9's TPL's
    F.) FF's built in blocklists populated by SpyBot S&D
    G.) Opera's urlfilter.ini populated by SpyBot S&D
    H.) IE restricted zone lists populated by SpyBot S&D too!
    I.) HOSTS files (blocking adbanners & known malicious domains/hosts)
    J.) PAC files (Proxy control)
    K.) Custom CSS sheets in browsers

    ( & more...)

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    * I do ALL OF THE ABOVE, & yes more (IP stack security @ OS level etc. via reg hacks etc.) for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth"... &, it works (haven't been infested/infected since 1996 in fact, & neither have family & friends I turned onto this style of security for!)

    APK

    P.S.=> However, I guess that even doing MORE "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" isn't a BAD idea, with proxy servers either IF you can afford more electric bill (I avoid proxies & a local DNS server @ home for those reasons in fact ONLY).

    So you know that "all said & aside above"? Well - HOSTS files work w/ "proximitron" which has a filter allowing them, a form of proxyserver one can elect to use (possibly others there)...

    ... apk