So yes, the desktop client is utterly useless. There's many people still who don't own a smartphone for one reason or another (e.g. privacy), as such I was hoping this would allow me to use it as a replacement for Skype. Most people are utterly fed-up of skype and have moved away to whatsapp or viber or telegram (all smartphone apps).
Indeed, what a massive disappointment for everyone wishing to move away from skype to a platform used by so many. I really don't understand their dumb reasoning for releasing a desktop app when they already have a website for people with smartphones?!
(as I value my privacy, I don't use a smartphone).
This is due to the "SafeBrowsing" feature in Firefox. i.e. Firefox contacts and checks the status of a website with Google, and if Google has it listed as malware/phishing, Firefox displays this warning.
It's easy to switch of the safebrowsing feature by simply going to: about:config and search for "browser.safebrowsing.enabled" and switch to "false".
By the way, this is also the reason why there's always a Google tracking cookie present in FF/Chrome.
I haven't used google for over 5 years, and I particularly love ddg's instant answers and the fact they utilise OpenStreetMap and Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, etc.
Because ixquick isn't really a search engine as it relies on google/bing/etc.
And ddg are somewhat open source and customisable, especially their instant answers.
I haven't used google for over 5 years now... I first switched to bing for 2 years, and then tried (but disliked) ixquick, until I discovered and fell in love with duckduckgo.
Perhaps your Macbook is a little old to offload the video decoding to the GPU, especially with newer codecs? For example, h.264 started becoming popular around 2008/2009, with some hardware coming out to support it. Browsers started integrating it around 2010, along with Theora, WEBM/VP8. And Intel integrated an initial implementation of the decoder in their Sandybridge-based CPU's from 2011.
But since then, there's been lots of revisions, even up to 2014, along with other video compression algorithms.
Except sadly, all the retarded "cool" web kids push heavily for javascript-only websites. And because that are "elite", so too must angular / node / mongo, to push down the gullible throats of managers.
Sadly. it's difficult to come across a site these days that doesn't work without JS - except perhaps, public institutes.
CIA used waterboarding and other techniques on terrorist suspects
Keep it mind, these are so-called terrorists, i.e. never convicted or even tried in any court of law!!
They simply picked up various people who they thought were terrorists, and dumped them in their vans - sometimes, even people in the vicinity who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time!
And yet they call the USA, "civilised" west! ... yes, civilised as long as you don't happen to be a Muslim.
Although I don't use any smartphone, this is one of the reasons why I advocate iPhone over the spyware-ridden android/windows os - if people MUST have a smartphone.
Apple appears to be the only major company fighting the real terrorists in the government, rather than collaborating and selling their customers' private data to them (unlike Google / Microsoft).
If it wasn't for encryption and companies like Apple / Lavabit / ProtonMail creating products to ensure customers' privacy, we wouldn't have people like Snowden / Assange / Glenn Greenwald / reporters etc, who are able to reveal the terrorist and war-driven / blood-thirsty nature of our western rulers and the crimes against humanity that they constantly commit around the world.
It's funny also the fact that when the UN and America bombs and destroys several hospitals/schools, it's perfectly fine, "because terrorists were hiding there"! But if (supposedly) Russia/any-other-country does so, it's crimes against humanity! What utter hypocrisy!
Oh and by the way, America/Britain has butchered hundreds-of-thousands of civilians in countries like Afghanistan/Iraq, and you won't come across a single family in Iraq who's family member hasn't been blown-up to bits by the American terrorist government.
is palemoon multi-process? if not, then it's just another crappy clone of firefox, and heavily dependent upon the firefox devs on improving gecko to inherit changes.
Use firefox with "classic theme" and it's superior to palemoon in every way.
Does palemoon have a team of 500 devs improving and constantly adding new html5/css3/es6 features? No, didn't think so.
So fed up of retards talking about palemoon like it's a different browser.
Err, runbox and hushmail is privacy for kids who don't understand security and the power of well-funded terrorist organisations such as the NSA and GCHQ.
The fact some of their servers are in the US, not to mention all mail is stored in plain-text and they even tout it's backed up for 6 months - and guess where the backups are stored!;) It only takes one compromised person to infiltrate the entire system and their backups, not to mention their lack of knowledge over encryption and security!
protonmail on the other-hand is entirely encrypted, like Apple's iMessage, even they don't have access to your messages because they're decrypted after the mail is fetched by your own local computer using a second password. So even if a terrorist company like NSA paid-off a member of staff, they can't do anything about it, because all data is encrypted and impossible to retrieve. This obviously also means that if you loose your second keypass, protonmail can't do anything except simply wipe your entire account and start from scratch.
Remember, when Edward Snowden made the revelation, he only mentioned one mail provider in the world which couldn't be accessed by NSA, and that was Zoho - and of course the now defunct Lavabit, which also employed encryption - and runbox has been around since year 2000, so the terrorists likely have an easy access to their system, like google.
It's not because Linux is better or it has anything to offer, it's because Microsoft is killing Windows without even realising it. And that's precisely the reason I've also been looking at OSX and Linux as viable alternatives since the Windows 10 spyware.
I grudgingly "upgraded" to Windows 8.1, and kept it since Classic Shell fixed many of the UI problems. But even Classic Shell has its limits.
But Linux is such a political mine-field, and every developer doing their own thing rather than uniting under one brand and one distro. Thus the reason I lean towards OSX, even it's its hefty price-tag (in the form of hardware).
But even OSX and iOS has been infected by the "flat-ui" virus.
Oh dear, Linux as always in the 1% category despite all the loud shouting and evangelism and the constant stream of articles about how every organisation in the world is converting to Linux!
Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
Remember the old "divide an conquer" rule?
Except you can't blame Microsoft or anyone else, there's simply no leadership behind Linux to pool all the talented devs together into 1 pool to develop 1 fantastic product and stop all the in-fighting and politics, and devs having tantrums and leaving to create yet-another-fork!!
This is the main reason why Ubuntu is so popular, because it has proper leadership behind it to herd all the dev sheep together and stop the childish tantrums and politics.
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He's right, statcounter by default has been blocked by AdBlockPlus for a long time (although possibly only the "easyprivacy" list).
And seeing as ABP is the most popular extension by far, and the in-built Tracker Protection in Firefox also blocks statcounter (although currently only active in private browsing mode).
... the stats could be pretty skewed.
They have a web version for that purpose!
So yes, the desktop client is utterly useless.
There's many people still who don't own a smartphone for one reason or another (e.g. privacy), as such I was hoping this would allow me to use it as a replacement for Skype. Most people are utterly fed-up of skype and have moved away to whatsapp or viber or telegram (all smartphone apps).
Indeed, what a massive disappointment for everyone wishing to move away from skype to a platform used by so many.
I really don't understand their dumb reasoning for releasing a desktop app when they already have a website for people with smartphones?!
(as I value my privacy, I don't use a smartphone).
This is due to the "SafeBrowsing" feature in Firefox.
i.e. Firefox contacts and checks the status of a website with Google, and if Google has it listed as malware/phishing, Firefox displays this warning.
It's easy to switch of the safebrowsing feature by simply going to:
about:config
and search for "browser.safebrowsing.enabled"
and switch to "false".
By the way, this is also the reason why there's always a Google tracking cookie present in FF/Chrome.
When will people realise that batteries deplete and become useless after just a few years?!
Of course Elon will want a revolt against fossil fuels, so people go out and buy his battery-powered cars instead.
Don't knock it until you try it.
I haven't used google for over 5 years now, possibly longer.
Because duckduckgo don't bubble you and track you.
They are also popular because you can hack the code.
I haven't used google for over 5 years, and I particularly love ddg's instant answers and the fact they utilise OpenStreetMap and Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, etc.
Exactly!
Because their ads don't track me, I have ddg whitelisted and sometimes help them out by clicking the ads.
Me three, I have duckduckgo whitelisted on my laptop/pc and my relatives computers.
Their ads are clear and unintrusive, and I make it a point to sometimes click on them, just to help ddg.
Because ixquick isn't really a search engine as it relies on google/bing/etc.
And ddg are somewhat open source and customisable, especially their instant answers.
I haven't used google for over 5 years now...
I first switched to bing for 2 years, and then tried (but disliked) ixquick, until I discovered and fell in love with duckduckgo.
Perhaps your Macbook is a little old to offload the video decoding to the GPU, especially with newer codecs?
For example, h.264 started becoming popular around 2008/2009, with some hardware coming out to support it.
Browsers started integrating it around 2010, along with Theora, WEBM/VP8.
And Intel integrated an initial implementation of the decoder in their Sandybridge-based CPU's from 2011.
But since then, there's been lots of revisions, even up to 2014, along with other video compression algorithms.
Except sadly, all the retarded "cool" web kids push heavily for javascript-only websites.
And because that are "elite", so too must angular / node / mongo, to push down the gullible throats of managers.
Sadly. it's difficult to come across a site these days that doesn't work without JS - except perhaps, public institutes.
CIA used waterboarding and other techniques on terrorist suspects
Keep it mind, these are so-called terrorists, i.e. never convicted or even tried in any court of law!!
They simply picked up various people who they thought were terrorists, and dumped them in their vans - sometimes, even people in the vicinity who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time!
And yet they call the USA, "civilised" west!
... yes, civilised as long as you don't happen to be a Muslim.
so... I guess they'll be using Ubuntu in the ISS to run updates, and browse the web and download another ubuntu install.
heh
humms, I wonder how they knew all that... Linux telemetry anyone?
Yes, just like gullible and stupid people believe that the guy and his wife are terrorists without any evidence or court case.
Whoever the media says are the bad guys, are now public enemy, no evidence required.
Although I don't use any smartphone, this is one of the reasons why I advocate iPhone over the spyware-ridden android/windows os - if people MUST have a smartphone.
Apple appears to be the only major company fighting the real terrorists in the government, rather than collaborating and selling their customers' private data to them (unlike Google / Microsoft).
If it wasn't for encryption and companies like Apple / Lavabit / ProtonMail creating products to ensure customers' privacy, we wouldn't have people like Snowden / Assange / Glenn Greenwald / reporters etc, who are able to reveal the terrorist and war-driven / blood-thirsty nature of our western rulers and the crimes against humanity that they constantly commit around the world.
It's funny also the fact that when the UN and America bombs and destroys several hospitals/schools, it's perfectly fine, "because terrorists were hiding there"!
But if (supposedly) Russia/any-other-country does so, it's crimes against humanity!
What utter hypocrisy!
Oh and by the way, America/Britain has butchered hundreds-of-thousands of civilians in countries like Afghanistan/Iraq, and you won't come across a single family in Iraq who's family member hasn't been blown-up to bits by the American terrorist government.
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he's a homo, a sick homo married to a another man 30-years younger than him.
is palemoon multi-process?
if not, then it's just another crappy clone of firefox, and heavily dependent upon the firefox devs on improving gecko to inherit changes.
Use firefox with "classic theme" and it's superior to palemoon in every way.
Does palemoon have a team of 500 devs improving and constantly adding new html5/css3/es6 features?
No, didn't think so.
So fed up of retards talking about palemoon like it's a different browser.
I don't believe that.
95 to 99% of the time, the computer is idle, which means it still spends significant amount of time waiting for you.
Err, runbox and hushmail is privacy for kids who don't understand security and the power of well-funded terrorist organisations such as the NSA and GCHQ.
The fact some of their servers are in the US, not to mention all mail is stored in plain-text and they even tout it's backed up for 6 months - and guess where the backups are stored! ;)
It only takes one compromised person to infiltrate the entire system and their backups, not to mention their lack of knowledge over encryption and security!
protonmail on the other-hand is entirely encrypted, like Apple's iMessage, even they don't have access to your messages because they're decrypted after the mail is fetched by your own local computer using a second password. So even if a terrorist company like NSA paid-off a member of staff, they can't do anything about it, because all data is encrypted and impossible to retrieve. This obviously also means that if you loose your second keypass, protonmail can't do anything except simply wipe your entire account and start from scratch.
Remember, when Edward Snowden made the revelation, he only mentioned one mail provider in the world which couldn't be accessed by NSA, and that was Zoho - and of course the now defunct Lavabit, which also employed encryption - and runbox has been around since year 2000, so the terrorists likely have an easy access to their system, like google.
Exactly!!
It's not because Linux is better or it has anything to offer, it's because Microsoft is killing Windows without even realising it.
And that's precisely the reason I've also been looking at OSX and Linux as viable alternatives since the Windows 10 spyware.
I grudgingly "upgraded" to Windows 8.1, and kept it since Classic Shell fixed many of the UI problems.
But even Classic Shell has its limits.
But Linux is such a political mine-field, and every developer doing their own thing rather than uniting under one brand and one distro.
Thus the reason I lean towards OSX, even it's its hefty price-tag (in the form of hardware).
But even OSX and iOS has been infected by the "flat-ui" virus.
Oh dear, Linux as always in the 1% category despite all the loud shouting and evangelism and the constant stream of articles about how every organisation in the world is converting to Linux!
Number 1 on that list is all the devs from the million other linux dists/clones coming together, stop the in-fighting, become organised (like canonical) and be under 1 leadership developing 1 product.
Remember the old "divide an conquer" rule?
Except you can't blame Microsoft or anyone else, there's simply no leadership behind Linux to pool all the talented devs together into 1 pool to develop 1 fantastic product and stop all the in-fighting and politics, and devs having tantrums and leaving to create yet-another-fork!!
This is the main reason why Ubuntu is so popular, because it has proper leadership behind it to herd all the dev sheep together and stop the childish tantrums and politics.