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Some web browser wars, and the US reneges on ‘leave Internet alone’ policy

Posted by jamba on February 27, 2010

I wrote a little something about browsers not too long ago, but this is in quite a bit more details and compares several different browsers:

Review: Linux browsers, Part 1 – Arora, Chromium, Dillo, Epiphany, Firefox and Galeon. In part 2, we’ll look at HV3, Kazehakaze, Midori, and Opera

Review: Linux browsers, Part 2 – HV3, Kazehakaze, Midori, Opera and compare test results.

I think he has inspired me to try out some of these other browsers(on my laptop, Firefox actually runs fine on my desktop, and I do prefer it…for now)–I am especially interested in Epiphany, Midori and Opera.  Firefox just seems like it is running slower and slower, and Chromium (although awesome) just really doesn’t get the whole privacy thing.

Another browser project that is interesting is Iron –it is essentially Google Chromium with all of the privacy tracking features stripped away.

And in ‘other news’, the US government reneges on ‘leave Internet alone’ policy.

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I remember GeoCities!

Posted by jamba on October 27, 2009

Yahoo Geocities is closing down.  I remember years ago, when my family first got a computer (around 1997 or ’98…maybe  ’96, I’m not entirely sure) I stumbled across how to create websites and decided to make my own.   Naturally, I used Geocities.  I was new to the internet, and it was all an amazing world…all at 56kbit/s.

Sure, they almost always look horrible, especially if you use their editor tools.  But I was a noob, and I did learn pretty quickly after that.  So, Geocities does have a special place in my heart–although, I haven’t thought anything about that service in several years.

Memories!

man, I am getting old, aren’t I?

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