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Trying to optimise http://floppy.museum for (even) older browsers. Some of the issues I'm trying to solve include utf8-to-latin1 translation (the original HTML has some silly double- and triple-byte characters), and variations of JPEG that simply aren't understood.

Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing 😉

#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars

Been using the #Avast browser as a replacement for #Firefox for several days now. Will be sticking with Avast but Firefox was better at blocking YouTube ads.

I've got uBlock Origin installed with both browsers. With Avast, I get the damn ads in YouTube popping up then disappearing. Or I get 'skip ad' screen.

In Firefox with uBlock, I never saw the ads at all.

Not sure if it's Avast or uBlock.

#Browser
#BrowserWars

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Main reasons ditching Firefox are:

1. Crap like 'Pockets'
2. Last fall's Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) thing that you had to turn off.
3. Very high memory usage (1 to 2 GB)/slow performance. Very noticeable after upgrading my home network for max 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
4. The current 'Terms of Service' kurfluffle.
5. Changes on the printing

It's slow #Enshittification for Firefox.

Hopefully, the Avast browser will be OK.

#Avast
#Firefox
#BrowserWars

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Since yesterday, been using the Avast browser as a Firefox replacement.

I'm a long-time Firefox user.

So far it's good. It works fine on my 2015 iMac iBook.

Main thing Avast lacks is separators in bookmarks, but folders can be used instead.

The downer is that Avast will not load on my mid-2012 iMac iMini. That one may need to be replaced.

#Avast
#Firefox
#BrowserWars

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Seeing as Mozilla is in the early stages of enshittification, and Firefox locked up my system TWICE today by chewing up all my cpu power, it's time to try jumping ship again.

Epiphany/Gnome Web still isn't ready for prime time, and LadyBird still has a long way to go. So....let's go with Floorp, because it's got a funny name. That sounds good.

Yeah, it's a Firefox fork, but maybe it won't screw over my system like the real thing.