I appreciate the time you put into your videos. I learn something every time I watch. I did not know you could put browsers in to reader mode and get rid of the crap. Also, all the stuff about Firefox. I love the idea of dual booting but not letting windows access the internet. Brilliant. Thanks!
How do you modify or add to your bookmark file without having to edit it for each change? I like the flexibility of Firefox bookmarks and have considered using the exported bookmarks file but updating it put me off.
I use Firefox because Chrome went through a period, over many years, where every second major update (and some minor ones) broke a lot of functionality with my employers website - it's not like we were using deprecated or non-standards (javascript) code - Chrome just broke, and we'd have to wait until the next update (minor or major) for that functionality to be fixed We now recommend Firefox to all our clients - and if they have an issue when using Chrome, we just say "use Firefox, it works" Not sure if Chrome updates are still as flaky, but 31 times bitten, 32 times shy as the saying goes - and Edge is just Microsofts lipstick on Googles pig
Great video, thank you for the information and time you take to make them. BTW is Windows still going I have up with that OS on version 7, never looked back after going to Linux (I do use openSUSE but I do like a challenge lol).
I ALWAYS learn something from watching your videos. Thanks a mill.....now I'm going to see if I can set up a proxy server on my pi4 to test this out. I basicaly run though the same Firefox scrub as you when I first instal it on a PC. Ps. Your comments about the reader view makes me miss the minimalism of 90's internet where most of the content was just text. For example, a recipe on a cooking webpage page these days has many MB's of HD pictures and ads, when all you need is 10 lines of text!
@@TallPaulTech i use lynx every day. Makes a great fast research tool. I only switch over to Firefox or Brave, if I need to interact with some kind of webapp, or some page I really have to see has some sort of gait weighing against unknown browsers (or runs nginx).
I use Opera since ~2005, unfortunately they dropped their own engine in favour of chromium years ago, but most of the features I liked stayed the same. I also use reader mode & build in speed dial as home screen. Mouse gestures are great, Built-in currency converter/dimension converter/time zones (you just select the text) Video popout - years ahead of other browsers, music player in the sidebar automatically pausing the song as you start watching a video on some page Most important advantage - works smoothly with 40-50 tabs on 8 year old hardware, Firefox used to hang/crash ( although now tab process separation is supposedly better ) The only concern may be the change of owners to a Chinese investment fund - so I don't use their cloud to sync devices Pozdrawiam ;)
I started to use a similar idea for bookmarks. My concern was that websites I visit will be able to see the "referer" page, and be able to see all my bookmarks.
Even if websites could see your "Referer" url, if your page is stored on your local network and assuming your router firewall is configured correctly (which they are by default) then it is highly unlikely that websites would be able to access that URL
Great! I wonder if you could show us, having a router with a Linux firmware like OpenWrt, how we could: - log the traffic from a specific device (a "suspicious" ip camera for instance) - block the ip camera internet access allowing connections from/to the LAN Many thanks
Firefox is so good there has only been 9 Security vulnerabilities patched since this video release. Most of which were High or critical vulnerabilities.lol
I appreciate the time you put into your videos. I learn something every time I watch. I did not know you could put browsers in to reader mode and get rid of the crap. Also, all the stuff about Firefox. I love the idea of dual booting but not letting windows access the internet. Brilliant. Thanks!
Inspiring vid! Gotta do that too, whenever I find the time for it
I didn't watch this one yet omg nice tips and tricks!! Thank you!
How do you modify or add to your bookmark file without having to edit it for each change? I like the flexibility of Firefox bookmarks and have considered using the exported bookmarks file but updating it put me off.
Another great video.
I use Firefox because Chrome went through a period, over many years, where every second major update (and some minor ones) broke a lot of functionality with my employers website - it's not like we were using deprecated or non-standards (javascript) code - Chrome just broke, and we'd have to wait until the next update (minor or major) for that functionality to be fixed
We now recommend Firefox to all our clients - and if they have an issue when using Chrome, we just say "use Firefox, it works"
Not sure if Chrome updates are still as flaky, but 31 times bitten, 32 times shy as the saying goes - and Edge is just Microsofts lipstick on Googles pig
Don't you just love it when updates kill things? Don't touch anything made by Tesla either.
@@TallPaulTech no chance of that.
Oh, that is brilliant, I love it! In all my years of advanced networking I never actually thought of doing that. Shame on me. Lol
Better late than never
Great video, thank you for the information and time you take to make them. BTW is Windows still going I have up with that OS on version 7, never looked back after going to Linux (I do use openSUSE but I do like a challenge lol).
That took me a second, but figured out you meant 'gave up' not 'have up'. I am about to give up on youtube!
I ALWAYS learn something from watching your videos. Thanks a mill.....now I'm going to see if I can set up a proxy server on my pi4 to test this out. I basicaly run though the same Firefox scrub as you when I first instal it on a PC. Ps. Your comments about the reader view makes me miss the minimalism of 90's internet where most of the content was just text. For example, a recipe on a cooking webpage page these days has many MB's of HD pictures and ads, when all you need is 10 lines of text!
In that case, install links or lynx ;)
@@TallPaulTech i use lynx every day. Makes a great fast research tool. I only switch over to Firefox or Brave, if I need to interact with some kind of webapp, or some page I really have to see has some sort of gait weighing against unknown browsers (or runs nginx).
great tips cheers
Thank you. What flavour of proxy does anyone suggest? I've been looking for a docker proxy but there are so many!
I use 3proxy
@@TallPaulTech Thanks! Much appreciated from Canada.
I use Opera since ~2005, unfortunately they dropped their own engine in favour of chromium years ago, but most of the features I liked stayed the same.
I also use reader mode & build in speed dial as home screen. Mouse gestures are great, Built-in currency converter/dimension converter/time zones (you just select the text)
Video popout - years ahead of other browsers, music player in the sidebar automatically pausing the song as you start watching a video on some page
Most important advantage - works smoothly with 40-50 tabs on 8 year old hardware, Firefox used to hang/crash ( although now tab process separation is supposedly better )
The only concern may be the change of owners to a Chinese investment fund - so I don't use their cloud to sync devices
Pozdrawiam ;)
Pre-sactly! 5 Stars Exactly why I'm a Linux user. Cheers. ATB
Awesome
I started to use a similar idea for bookmarks. My concern was that websites I visit will be able to see the "referer" page, and be able to see all my bookmarks.
Even if websites could see your "Referer" url, if your page is stored on your local network and assuming your router firewall is configured correctly (which they are by default) then it is highly unlikely that websites would be able to access that URL
rel="noreferrer nofollow"
you're welcome
Whats your opinions about Tor browser?
Don't know
Smart :)
How do you handle windows updates with this setup?
Either you don’t, or you just enable the system proxy, get your updates, then turn it off again.
Yeah, I don't update it. My music program works, so if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.
Zero hedge. MY MAN
Do you know how long it took me to decide what links to actually have shown in this video? I swear, my next video isn't even going to be on youtube.
Great!
I wonder if you could show us, having a router with a Linux firmware like OpenWrt, how we could:
- log the traffic from a specific device (a "suspicious" ip camera for instance)
- block the ip camera internet access allowing connections from/to the LAN
Many thanks
Both of those things are pretty basic. Just use tcpdump to see what traffic is flowing from the device, and use nftables to block it if you want.
@@TallPaulTech Hi Paul
Thanks for the tips!
With those 2 keywords I found on your own CZcams videos some info on that, so... it's time to study! :)
I’m surprised you don’t have a fancy intranet page setup to monitor device health for all your home gadgets. ;^}
Firefox is so good there has only been 9 Security vulnerabilities patched since this video release. Most of which were High or critical vulnerabilities.lol
Take it easy, Tall Paul
I give the orders around here!
just use Linux all the time and wine your window apps
can't you just have a dotfile for your configuration? oh wait its shit software, i forgot
Awesome