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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I find this interesting as I have FF on my MAC desktop. It has gotten horribly slow. I am on a DSL line and hate to have to change my email address if I change providers. Is there anything else I can do?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, are you talking about an email account provided by your internet service provider?

That is completely unrelated to what browser you use to interact with the internet.

Maybe consider using the Brave browser as an alternative. It has built in adblocking. https://brave.com/

Alternatively, if using chrome or FF, try installing the the "Ublock Origin" & "Privacy Badger" extensions to help block all of the 3rd party sites (advertisements, tracking, etc) that the page tries to load when you connect to a website. NoScript is also useful, but you have to tweak it more.

Another good choice is to get a raspberry pi, install PiHole on it (DNS blackhole) and have your devices on your network use it for their DNS gateway. That has been very successful for me to speed up web browsing.

I am with Frontier now and have had a Frontier email address for many years. If I switch providers, I would loose it.

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I find this interesting as I have FF on my MAC desktop. It has gotten horribly slow. I am on a DSL line and hate to have to change my email address if I change providers. Is there anything else I can do?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, are you talking about an email account provided by your internet service provider?

That is completely unrelated to what browser you use to interact with the internet.

Both have gone to crap since abandoning Adobe. I have to try a few browsers sometimes to get some things to work.

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Originally posted by Orthogonal:
The current release, Pale Moon 28.1.0, is available here https://www.palemoon.org/
for both Windows and Linux. I have used it now for about a year having left Waterfox and FF behind and I can state that it is a delight and pleasingly stable. They do block NoScript as it is troublesome, which they explain, but that is relatively easy to circumvent and I do so.

I'll give Pale Moon a try.

Thanks,

RMD

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Originally posted by bald1:
Waterfox, a 64-bit variant of Firefox is faster than plain ol' Firefox.

Been on Waterfox and DDG for quite some time.

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I am with Frontier now and have had a Frontier email address for many years. If I switch providers, I would loose it.

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I find this interesting as I have FF on my MAC desktop. It has gotten horribly slow. I am on a DSL line and hate to have to change my email address if I change providers. Is there anything else I can do?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, are you talking about an email account provided by your internet service provider?

That is completely unrelated to what browser you use to interact with the internet.

Unless I'm missing something also, maladat is telling you right. Frontier is your ISP. Waterfox/Pale Moon/Opera/Chrome/etc. are browsers. DuckDuckGo/Bing/Google/etc. are search engines.

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I am with Frontier now and have had a Frontier email address for many years. If I switch providers, I would loose it.

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I find this interesting as I have FF on my MAC desktop. It has gotten horribly slow. I am on a DSL line and hate to have to change my email address if I change providers. Is there anything else I can do?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, are you talking about an email account provided by your internet service provider?

That is completely unrelated to what browser you use to interact with the internet.

If you're having a problem with Firefox being slow, you can use a different browser. The browser you use doesn't have anything to do with your internet service provider or the email account supplied by your internet service provider. You can use any browser with your existing ISP.

If your internet service itself is too slow, perhaps if you call your ISP, they can offer a faster internet package.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
doesn't matter how bad or slow Firefox gets, I will never, ever have Chrome on any of my machines

My sentiments, also.

I use Firefox and it doesn't seem slow to me. I have my options set up to delete cookies, cache and history every time I close the browser. I use uBlock Origin for ad blocking and have to remember to update it every month or so. The only problem I have with it is that I have "Do Not Track" set to on in normal browsing and some sites don't function right unless you turn it off because they want to track you anyway.

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Originally posted by cyanide357:
Maybe consider using the Brave browser as an alternative. It has built in adblocking. https://brave.com/

Brave and done. They have a mobile version too that works well.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Both have gone to crap since abandoning Adobe.

You mean Flash? My Lord: That PoS software is probably the most important thing to eliminate from your computer, bar none. It's a horrible cesspool of crap code, riddled with security vulnerabilities. Even when I still had no intention of ever using Apple devices I applauded Steve Jobs' stance on not allowing that crapware on Apple mobile devices.

And it will EOL in 2020.

Right now I have Chrome, Safari, Brave, Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi browsers installed on my Mac. I've been trying to figure out what to replace Chrome with. I am liking Vivaldi the most so far, it has most of the customization I am looking for.

Opera. It has consistently been the best browser in every aspect.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Both have gone to crap since abandoning Adobe.

You mean Flash? My Lord: That PoS software is probably the most important thing to eliminate from your computer, bar none. It's a horrible cesspool of crap code, riddled with security vulnerabilities. Even when I still had no intention of ever using Apple devices I applauded Steve Jobs' stance on not allowing that crapware on Apple mobile devices.

And it will EOL in 2020.

I mean Adobe for PDF forms and documents mainly. They disabled support for Adobe plugins and have implmented their own viewers that do not always function the same. I have to open them separately in Acrobat.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Both have gone to crap since abandoning Adobe.

You mean Flash? My Lord: That PoS software is probably the most important thing to eliminate from your computer, bar none. It's a horrible cesspool of crap code, riddled with security vulnerabilities. Even when I still had no intention of ever using Apple devices I applauded Steve Jobs' stance on not allowing that crapware on Apple mobile devices.

And it will EOL in 2020.

I mean Adobe for PDF forms and documents mainly. They disabled support for Adobe plugins and have implmented their own viewers that do not always function the same. I have to open them separately in Acrobat.

Forget Acrobat and try freeware PDF-XChange Viewer & PDF-XChange Editor.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
I mean Adobe for PDF forms and documents mainly. They disabled support for Adobe plugins and have implmented their own viewers that do not always function the same. I have to open them separately in Acrobat.

Huh. Must've been recently. I wonder why they did that?

Not that I'd use Acrobat, either. Acrobat, too, has been a cesspool of security exploits for several years now.

<looks...>

Did you know you can override that and let the Adobe plugin work again? Check How to disable the built-in PDF viewer and use another viewer if you like to live dangerously.