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Chrome Browser Turns 10 (theverge.com)
Google first released its Chrome browser 10 years ago today. Marketed as a "fresh take on the browser," Chrome debuted with a web comic from Google to mark the company's first web browser. From a report: It was originally launched as a Windows-only beta app before making its way to Linux and macOS more than a year later in 2009. Chrome debuted at a time when developers and internet users were growing frustrated with Internet Explorer, and Firefox had been steadily building momentum. Google used components from Apple's WebKit rendering engine and Mozilla's Firefox to help bring Chrome to life, and it made all of Chrome's source code available openly as its Chromium project. Chrome focused on web standards and respected HTML5, and it even passed both the Acid1 and Acid2 tests at the time of its release. This was a significant step as Microsoft was struggling to adhere to open web standards with its Internet Explorer browser.
Another significant part of Chrome's first release was the idea of "sandboxing" individual browser tabs so that if one crashed it wouldn't affect the others. This helped improve the speed and stability of Chrome in general, alongside Google's V8 JavaScript engine that the company constantly tweaked to try and push the web forwards. After a decade of Chrome, this browser now dominates as the primary way most people browse the web. Chrome has secured more than 60 percent of browser market share on desktop, and Google's Chrome engineers continue to improve it with new features and push the latest web standards. To mark the milestone, Google said it would make a surprise announcement on Tuesday -- some improvements coming to Chrome.
Another significant part of Chrome's first release was the idea of "sandboxing" individual browser tabs so that if one crashed it wouldn't affect the others. This helped improve the speed and stability of Chrome in general, alongside Google's V8 JavaScript engine that the company constantly tweaked to try and push the web forwards. After a decade of Chrome, this browser now dominates as the primary way most people browse the web. Chrome has secured more than 60 percent of browser market share on desktop, and Google's Chrome engineers continue to improve it with new features and push the latest web standards. To mark the milestone, Google said it would make a surprise announcement on Tuesday -- some improvements coming to Chrome.
Please block ALL autoplay videos, unless I give a site permission to play them.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
I don't have much to add, but I will say that Chrome provides very nice developer tools for building and debugging client-side web applications. It is almost as if the people behind it had a vision or something.
Sort of related: I went to a movie yesterday (Crazy Rich Asians) and saw an ad before the movie pushing Chromebook. If you want to see floorboss-level trolling of Microsoft go see that. Oh, and the movie was pretty good too.
Chrome focused on web standards and respected HTML5, and it even passed both the Acid1 and Acid2 tests at the time of its release. This was a significant step as Microsoft was struggling to adhere to open web standards with its Internet Explorer browser.
I must assert: Microsoft did not even try to adhere to web standards at the time.
For a company of Microsoft's stature with thousands of [capable & competent] programmers, this would be cake walk. They chose not to try.
I used the Chrome browser for about seven years. It's a great browser -- fast, snappy, good looking, responsive. Unfortunately, it's controlled by Google, an organization that can no longer be trusted. This sent me back into the welcoming arms of Firefox (and yes, my search engine is DuckDuckGo).
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Do what everybody else does... Blame it on Trump.
No, Microsoft was not "struggling to comply (with standards)" They were struggling to embrace, extend, and extinguish said standards.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I only use it for those very rare of sites that won't display in my primary browser.
I have never used Chrome but considering something new. I currently use both Firefox and IE. I seem to get different ad experiences with FF and IE. IE seems less intrusive than firefox but I do use both.
Could someone give me some reasons to switch to Chrome?
with Chrome is its CORS policy for local files. Each time I test websites locally I have to switch to Firefox, because Chrome would not allow request to the local file system from a local HTML page . Firefox seems to be doing fine using a less strict policy, or does Chrome's policy mean that Firefox is insecore? Please Chrome devs, reconsider your choice on this.
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Webkit was a much needed improvement. Also IE 6 websites still dominated many many years after 2000 in 2007/2008 when the first iPhone came out.
Webkit was better and designed to be abstract and multi-platform unlike gecko which was why Chrome switched from gecko to webkit while it was still in alpha. Without Chrome and mobile app support IE 6 would still be here. I was one of those Firefox rebels but it was a geek thing 10 years ago. If I recall it had just 10 to 15% of the market and I had to keep IE around for some websites.
Grandma would see this site not render in Firefox and blame the browser and go back to IE which made webdevelopers scream in frustration.
Though webkit and it's blink cousin are default in all devices and platforms I think it's a good thing we the web returned to where it should be and is now an open standard. Thanks Google, Apple, and the Konqueror project for making this possible.
http://saveie6.com/
I went back to Firefox. I don't trust Google and their ad ecosystem.
Firefox has its problems, but it doesn't have a multi-billiondollar neoliberal fascist enterprise backing it.
WebKit came from the KDE browser. And because it was LGPL code Apple and Google were forced to keep it Open Source.
Would be nice if these details would at least get some attention on a site like /..
The problem was while Firefox did starting to adhering to standards it had it's issues. Phoenix was fast before being renamed to Firefox 1.0. It still had some Netscape bugs here and there but was much improved. Firefox 3.0 was slow and was known to freeze with lots of plugins. Firefox 3.5 was even slower even if it did adhere to even more standards.
IE by default was quicker if you ran MS specific HTML and MS CSS and cheated by loading when the OS loaded so it appeared to load faster. People stuck with it as it just worked and it was there.
Chrome was much better. Webkit also was a much better architecture than Gecko which is why Google left Gecko and switched to webkit for Chrome OS and Chrome browser in development. Apple already used webkit for Safari and their iphone. The architecture was multithreaded and easy to embed and light. It was perfect and much needed in the age of Vista where Pcs barely had enough ram to run it.
Chrome surprised Firefox quickly too. IE 9 was the first non sucky IE browser and MS was forced to follow webstandards all thinks to Chrome's marketshare and users demanding their websites work on their iPhones.
Chrome was a better browser. I could argue Firefox was marginally better depending on which are you looked at. Most users do not know what web compliancy is. All they know is Firefox was slow, and their worksites looked funny which is why it never took more than 15% marketshare.
http://saveie6.com/
of unabated browsing history stealing and massive privacy invasion. Yeah Google!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
And I'd use it if there was an option for tabs under the address bar.
I tried chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy in Chromium Version 68.0.3440.75 (Developer Build) built on Debian 9.5, running on Debian 9.5 (64-bit). It didn't block most of the test cases in my video blocking test suite. I guess that's because blocking all video playback is very much easier said than done.
- Block the <video> element, and sites will fall back to the less efficient <img> tag with GIF.
- Block <video> and GIF, and sites will fall back to using JavaScript to rotate JPEG or PNG images into a container.
- Block <video>, GIF, and script, and sites will fall back to using CSS sprites with stepped animations to rotate frames of a JPEG or PNG filmstrip into a container.
Unless you're some self-proclaimed browser connoiseur or a Google fanboy, I don't know why the F you're still using Chrome when Firefox is significantly leaner these days. And don't bring up some stupid synthetic benchmark, they rarely have any bearing on actual use.
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As a help desk tech 10 years ago, I was advising users to uninstall Google Chrome because it called home with much more system and user data than was necessary. That was the most obvious reason. The IE6 dev team wasn't quite ready to leave behind their application monopoly.
Safari also doesn't spit out bogus threat dialogs on HTTP sites.
Google's Chrome is junkware. Gmail is doing the same shit. Idiots.
What does Safari do instead to protect users from ISPs that insert deceptive or otherwise malicious scripts or other content into HTML pages delivered through cleartext HTTP? <cough>Xfinity by Comcast</cough>
That's a great present.
How's that traitors cock taste?
And now Chrome is pretty much the IE6 of web browsers today.
Yes, the next version is 69, ejaculating more personal information from its users.
First, a video that is downloaded but not played would still count against the monthly download quota that your ISP imposes on you, especially a satellite or cellular ISP. Second, playing a filmstrip through a canvas (as demonstrated in canvid) lets the video delivery script read the pixels in the canvas and relay back to the website that the video was decoded. Thus a video that was downloaded and played invisibly still uses CPU time and battery energy for decoding.
Amazing how a piece of software made by a company that has as its goal to gather as much knowledge about you and the rest of the world has become so popular in such a short time.
Yay for Mozilla. At least they don't gather your data.
-- Cheers!
Dumbed down anti-user interface. Arrogant background processes that spawn countless instances and take over your computer. Drive-by unwanted trojan installs as Google greases the palms of every freeware dev to sneak a Chrome install into their app installer. But worst of all now are the "Only works in Chrome" websites:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Microsoft got raked over the coals for doing all the same shit that Google is now getting a pass for. What the fuck?
All you so-called geeks who champion Chrome are either just out of highschool or you are hypocrites with very short memories.
Google makes its money through browsers. I have a pretty good expectation they will keep engineers working on Chrome. I remember when Firefox started eating Internet Exploders lunch, the microsoft crowd started complaining, and it leaked out that the company had to scramble to find some people who remembered working on it back in the day. They were selling "fresh" copies of net exploder every day, but hadn't spent nickle one on it in more than 10 years. At first they had a hard time finding people who were still in the company who had worked on it, (some key people had left, all the rest had been shuffled around), then they had to work on getting the old source code to compile (after a few weeks they got something that would compile and was mostly stable). They they started refactoring the rest, and finally after about 6 months they had something that they could start improving. And this was all before Chrome. I remember the company warning people not to uninstall net exploder (and certainly not to install Firefox), and that Firefox was bad, bad, bad and would give the user herpes if they tried it. I think they tried the same with Chrome. By that time, too many had looked behind the curtain and saw the 'wizard' for what it was.
Desperation stinks; I wish /. would fire the mouthbreathers who choose some of these vapid and innane topics...
For just a little more effort than it took to write that, you could have authored a submission. Have you tried doing that?
amazing how quick the fresh take on the browser became mundane and bloated.
Google is a major cheerleader for the Globalist "no nations, no borders" craze. If you use their services and products, you support this.
So ?
Sanction Google by not using them.
Plenty of alternatives around such as
1.) Use Bittorrent to distribute Videos.
2.) Use Qwant.com out of Paris, France instead of Google Search
3.) Use Vkontakte out of Russia to replace Facebook.
4.) Use USENET instead of Twitter
Do not support your enemies !
Chrome's data scraping owners have thought I only use a browser to watch TV.
How does APK work with DNS over HTTPS https://blog.nightly.mozilla.o... ?
Once this is enabled by default, it will bypass the operating system's DNS resolution, bypassing APK Host files.
Was? We still schedule as much time to fix changes under 11 and Edge as we do to write the feature in the first place. Yes, they've greatly improved since MSIE 6, which we still have to support with several of our apps, but they're still not good.
It was so much better than the competition, at the time.
I'm largely back to FF now. As FF seems to be regaining at least part of its sanity.
When IE ruled the browsers I used it most of the time, and today I use Chrome for the same reason. When you use a browser that commands market share like Chrome does. I think you end up with the best experience. Numbers don't lie, although I would like to see a more uniform market share for browsers. Otherwise we end up with Chrome being yet another Internet Explorer which we really don't want.
because i love it when 1px borders dissapear
Fix the leaks!
Chrome surprised Firefox quickly too
I can assure you that Mozilla was not at all surprised by Chrome. If anything, many of those working the codebase at the time were worried because there wasn't any solid direction devs were being pushed in to compete with Chrome. But everyone saw the writing on the wall with Chrome coming out which is exactly what prompted the 3.0 to 3.5 jump and began the era of "toss literally everything at it" that eventually ended with Firefox 24.
users demanding their websites work on their iPhones
I don't think this could be underscored enough. People wanting the sites they visit to work on their iPhone drove a massive amount of standards adoption, killed XHTML 2.0, rushed HTML5 (even though it was too late), more than anything else previously did. However, apps have pretty much made standards a non-issue now.
The rest of your comment is spot on though.
IE 9 was the first non sucky IE browser
IE9 was less shit than IE8, but there has never been a non sucky IE browser, and since IE has been replaced by Edge, there will never be a non sucky IE.
Wow I totally forgot about XHTML 2.0. While us geeks debated and whined users choose a faster browser that didn't look funny. Firefox was starting to gain traction 10 years ago indeed but it was not until iphones that really made businesses update their creeking old code base. What do you know early Chrome and Firefox by then were starting to become important enough for developers to write 2 websites again. One for IE and one for standards. The rest is history and great as IE has very low marketshare now finally!
This year I started noticing sites that do not work at all in IE. Not even IE 11! HTML 5 really is standard now and developers do not want to support it anymore. This was inconceivable 15 years ago.
IE 9 was the first non sucky IE browser and MS was forced to follow webstandards all thinks to Chrome's marketshare (...) All they know is Firefox was slow, and their worksites looked funny which is why it never took more than 15% marketshare.
What a load of bullshit history revisionism being modded up by moderators sucking Google's cock. Firefox peaked at well over 30%, people were leaving IE in droves taking it from 95%+ to the low 60s before Chrome even existed. Mozilla and Firefox did all the hard work of getting sites to work in something other than IE6 and the decline continued even though Microsoft much improved standards compliance in IE7 and IE8. Yes, Chrome was good but it came long after writing MS specific HTML/CSS was dead.
which is why Google left Gecko
That never happened, Google chose Webkit from the very beginning. Perhaps because they found it better in the first place, but it's not like they built something around Gecko and then abandoned it. Don't get me wrong, Chrome was a good product that took users from Firefox and sent IE from a decline into a free fall. But it was way too late to the party to get any credit for breaking IE's monopoly and forcing Microsoft into standards compliance. Except for all the money Google funneled into Mozilla in return for search results of course, but Chrome basically walked in open doors Firefox had already knocked down.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
See subject & WTF is a browser doing DNS (caching OR full resolves) for when that's the job of the IP stack & its part?
* That appears to be some STUPID attempt @ what Windows does (a DNS clientside SLOWER USERMODE CACHE (which is only 1 of its many errors it has) using encryption too!
THE PERFORMANCE PRICE?
QUOTE: "run-of-the-mill DNS requests over DoH take a small performance hit." https://www.theregister.co.uk/... (using hosts they go FASTER since they're locally resolved 1st).
APK
P.S.=> & just as in Windows' case w/ a slower usermode dns CACHE (not full resolver) which IS a broken one IF larger hosts files are in use & there in Windows, JUST as I do for this FF setting? I've LONG turned that FF setting off due to breaking down w/ large hosts files... apk
I also TURN OFF network.dnsCacheEntries in about:config (again: Why's a browser doing DNS cache in slower usermode for if it's the IP stack's job as the chooser of DNS resolution?)
APK
P.S.=> A browser's JOB is not to do encryption (dnscrypt works for that IF you want it) ESPECIALLY one that SLOWS YOU DOWN https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (by 6 milliseconds or more, & hosts are FAR faster than that + BYPASS using DNS @ all, thus no need to "encrypt" dns requests) & when HTTPS f's up again/has security issues (always does) where are those that use this stupid thing anyhow? They're "SOL" is where... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* Linux model = faster/more efficient.
APK
P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.comsearch?s...
The above is more of Alexander Peter Kowalski lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproven statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.
Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case nothing he says should be taken seriously.
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See subject & 2 questions he won't answer: 1.) Do hosts stop threats served by hostname (the way threats are done most) by blocking them? Yes. 2.) Do hosts speed you up 2 ways in adblocking (preventing more infection/tracking/slowdown) & via hardcoded favorite sites resolving faster + protecting vs. dns down or redirect poisoned? Yes.
My hosts program's the only 1 that does the latter @ TOP of hosts cached in RAM (for best performance) & only 1 of its kind on Linux/BSD in easy to use flexible configuration GUI form.
(I also did that latter part LONG before the Chinese & 1st http://theregister.co.uk/2017/... )
APK
P.S.-> Have you done work that's that effective doing more for less faster in kernelmode speed (cpu priority) w/ less complexity for exploit + excess overheads vs. solutions KNOWN to be security-issue riddled (like addons (souled-out to NOT work by default OR easily detected & blocked that are BYPASSABLE & EXPLOITABLE), DNS & Antivirus)? No... apk
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.comnews/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else. " hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&cid=49747129/
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.comarticle/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
Steve Gibson on hosts https://www.grc.comsn/sn-045.htm/
Oliver Day http://www.securityfocus.comcolumnists/491/ "Host file browsing the Web - is actually faster
"It's working: Neville... it's working!" See subject & results from THIS month alone https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... that's only recently while I've been on Linux (few months now only) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: There's BULLSHIT & doing nothing pessimsm & then? There's CONCRETE VISIBLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof).
* The film, w/ a "hero" of mine in I AM LEGEND, see it & I do it via MUSTANG 5.0 speed & power (like the beginning of the film: Take something DESIGNED BY (kernelmode nature) NATURE & REPROGRAM IT TO WORK FOR THE BODY instead of against it...))
P.S.=> 3 things show I do it right:
1st = User praise my hosts engine https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
2nd "ATTACKS" I GET (from UNIDENTIFIABLE ac as Elon Musk got https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... )
3rd BEING IMITATED = "Imitation = sincerest form of flattery" https://linux.slashdot.org/com... ... apk
Arstechnica = losers who stalked me (as you do now anonymously unidentifiably) to NTCompatible.com & Windows IT Pro magazine forums to their public dismay in Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis (who posts here on /. until I drove his ass off too) when their websites were REMOVED by their hosting providers in Shaw Canada & CrystalTech (for both email harassing me caught on a tracking ticket + stalking me & posting lies about me on them AFTER I destroyed them both PUBLICLY @ Windows IT Pro on Exchange Servers memory being freed UNHALTING them (which tells you Exchange is HEAVILY POINTER ORIENTED linked list driven, which leads to memory fragmentation that CAN halt a serverware)).
Jay Little the "self-proclaimed 'EXCHANGE EXPERT'" HAD TO CONCEDE IT from MICROSOFT'S OWN DOCUMENTATION proving it FOR me there (where they as usual stalked me AS YOU ARE NOW)
Thor SCHMUCK?
Ask him WHY his false accusation of an old ware of mine was 1st taken down to NO threat & CA sold off the SHITTY antivir he sold (as a paid pawn of theirs) & they are GONE, done. dead... lol!
Lookup "CA Accounting Scandal" on Google - scumbags & THEIR BIRDS OF A FEATHER just go down vs. me everytime!
APK
P.S.=> You FAIL you projecting LYING HYPOCRITE scumbag punk HIDING from me behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous troll posts... apk
Hey retard those were all previously refuted and a link was provided but I guess you are illiterate too. You got nothing so you keep repeating your disproven statements hoping that this time it might be true. Your ability to form an argument is lacking as you have already looped backed to your previous false statements. You do this because you lost and are a fucking loser. You can't find any actual support so instead you keep repeating your lies.
Anyone can read quoted security pros & decide from where they're written vs. YOUR lies Jealous "Lil' Jowie" HIDING from me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous just by following the links I posted.
APK
P.S.=> I welcome anyone to do so to see how much of a LIAR you REALLY truly are... apk
Keep trying to change the subject away from your complete and total failure there Alexander Peter Kowalski. When you do this everyone can see that you are a loser who can't back up their statements and has to change the subject to hide that fact. Also your statements about the Chines copying you were also disproven in the original post but you keep repeating that lie even after you admit you have no actual proof other than your wild ass speculation, i.e. no real proof.
As far as your questions the answers are:
1. Only long after they are know and then only the most widely know ones and even then there are better solutions.
2. Less than other more effective solutions that aren't dependent on performing a linear search doing expensive string comparisons through a sorted list after spending tens of minutes babysitting a shitty file concatenator program.
BS - hosts specifics stop threats, period IF served by hostname (99% of threats are) MINUS wildcard false positives HELL.
Hosts = FASTER vs. FAULTY w/ large hosts files USERMODE SLOWER dnscache service (in Windows) by FAR due to KERNELMODE faster/more cpu priority given diskcaching subsystem in use caching hosts.
MY METHOD IS PURE KERNELMODE SUPERIOR (superior speed due to more CPU given in) - no usermode slow buggy bs ILLOGIC-LOGIC of "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" that's FULL OF SECURITY ISSUES (DNS/Antivirus OR crippled by default slower usermode addons).
(Hosts blocking ads ALONE assures more speed than a dnscache does also LET ALONE avoiding remote DNS (or even local over LAN) lookup delay + usermode slow faulty caches)
APK
P.S.=> YOU LOSE AGAIN, liar along w/ https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...... apk
Now it's old enough to drive a bike on the street.
Via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing you hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 Linux/BSD!!!
(Better vs. Windows model in speed/efficiency/merge)
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. script trackers/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware downloads/malcript/email malicious payloads... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* Linux model = faster/more efficient
APK
P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.comsearch?s...
By celebrating their birthdays? It's stupid. It's just code.
Marketed as a "fresh take on the browser,"
Yeah, and it was new, different, and interesting. But here we are ten years later, and now it feels like all the other browsers are trying to become Chrome, just because of how popular Chrome has become.