- Apr 1, 2019
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Wow just tried on some old 480p stuff. It actually did a decent job. There's one video on that channel that is 360p, it is unwatchable on or off. Just a bad transfer, probably didn't have a clean recording to begin with.
oldschool's surfing laptop configuration
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- Mar 29, 2018
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- Mar 29, 2018
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I still use it for compartmented browsing but also feel Chrome is more secure.
Indeed! And they appear to be the most bug-free.
Don't know what that is. I don't have nvidia graphic processor, AFAIK. Is it a Chrome setting?
No. Doesn't make a noticeable difference.
I hope that doesn't make me one!
I am missing a couple of features too, primarily "Clear history on exit" and a couple of small ones like "Don't show bookmarks on NTP".
I have it off now but I may enable it.
@Moonhorse @blackice I welcome any Chrome tips.
- May 29, 2018
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I really didnt knew it requires such new gpu though,,
Im currently reading your chrome:/Flags and enabled / disabled some of them myself, for security purposes so im learning from you currently@Moonhorse @blackice I welcome any Chrome tips.
Allthough im using trend micro on my android device and it requires to use google chrome for web filtering, so im between edge/ chrome
- Mar 29, 2018
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I use Edge Dev or Brave on Android. I like Edge because it works better on my small phone but had to disable a lot of flags recently though.
- Mar 16, 2019
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Biggest shock since Trump won the election in 2016
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I still use it for compartmented browsing but also feel Chrome is more secure.
Indeed! And they appear to be the most bug-free.
Don't know what that is. I don't have nvidia graphic processor, AFAIK. Is it a Chrome setting?
No. Doesn't make a noticeable difference.
I hope that doesn't make me one!
I am missing a couple of features too, primarily "Clear history on exit" and a couple of small ones like "Don't show bookmarks on NTP".
I have it off now but I may enable it.
@Moonhorse @blackice I welcome any Chrome tips.
Nope
- Mar 29, 2018
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I have an Adavan for you, my friend! Don't worry, I'm using Firefox for any non-tech browsing, emails, etc. In fact, I'm going back to using µBO in medium mode. Really, it's my like my default browser. I switched Edge to Chrome to piss off MS.Biggest shock since Trump won the election in 2016
- Mar 16, 2019
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Hi! Can you do a simple test if you don't mind since you have all three browsers installed.
Open Firefox and Task manager side by side. Visit webpages one by one and monitor Microsoft Defender's aka Antimalware Service Executable aka MsMpEng.exe's CPU usage.
Later do the same for Edge/Chrome. Do you see any CPU usage difference of the Microsoft Defender service? Like, does MD use more CPU when browsing on Firefox?
Open Firefox and Task manager side by side. Visit webpages one by one and monitor Microsoft Defender's aka Antimalware Service Executable aka MsMpEng.exe's CPU usage.
Later do the same for Edge/Chrome. Do you see any CPU usage difference of the Microsoft Defender service? Like, does MD use more CPU when browsing on Firefox?
- Mar 29, 2018
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Defender and Chrome @ occasional spikes to 0.3-0.4%
Firefox sees bigger spikes 0.4-0.8%, especially when opening new tabs as high as 6.0+%
I have network protection enabled.
- Mar 16, 2019
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Only 0.4-0.8% while loading webpages?
So, less than 1%? While opening websites mine reaches upto 10-11% on many websites (I have more extensions though). While it's about 2-4% on a Chromium browser.Network Protection probably isn't an issue as it has a separate process for it and besides it has no effect on Chrome.
Actually a few months ago I noticed Norton has this issue with Firefox for all users (verified it), yesterday noticed it for MD. So, trying to understand if it's a common thing for MD. I'll have to do some more testing.
- Mar 29, 2018
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I'll have to as well just so you can compare.
- Oct 16, 2022
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@oldschool I was using brave more always end up back to Chrome, MS EDGE very bloated microsoft could simplify more, unfortunately chrome continues its hegemony as the king of browsers and will continue so for decades, by the way, I believe that no browser will surpass chrome that is a shame. I did not want to install chrome because in W10 and W11 the MS EDGE comes preinstalled, but still think the EDGE bad, the context menu has a lot of unnecessary things sometimes find it useless for a casual user, more hinders than helps so many features.
- Mar 29, 2018
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Added JShelter extension to Chrome to test drive. @Max90 or anyone else using this? Any tips to share? 
@oldschool , sorry no
Still on Edge, did not know of that extension. I am running Edge with anti-tracking on default and super-duper javascript protection on basic, but have enabled the allways use strict for both options in Edge. I normally run Edge -inprivate but when I do purchases, banking or connect to my company webaps I just start a 'normal' window (for optimal compatibility) and disable uBO. This works great (also for Netflix, Viaplay and my ISP IPTV). So I do not see a need to limit JavaScript (also because I am using JanWilly;s easy medium mode to reduc third-party exposure).
Still on Edge, did not know of that extension. I am running Edge with anti-tracking on default and super-duper javascript protection on basic, but have enabled the allways use strict for both options in Edge. I normally run Edge -inprivate but when I do purchases, banking or connect to my company webaps I just start a 'normal' window (for optimal compatibility) and disable uBO. This works great (also for Netflix, Viaplay and my ISP IPTV). So I do not see a need to limit JavaScript (also because I am using JanWilly;s easy medium mode to reduc third-party exposure).
- Feb 25, 2017
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using it on Edge with recommended settings. Might cause some annoying Captchas but apart from that it's still working well.Added JShelter extension to Chrome to test drive. @Max90 or anyone else using this? Any tips to share?
- Mar 29, 2018
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Thanks. I haven't used it since its early rollout and I see it's improved UI. Good to know you're using it. I played around with it today, tweaked it a bit after re-reading the JShelter thread and so far so good. Seems more useful now that I'm using Chrome and of course unnecessary on Firefox, as you know.
Glad to see you posting again, my friend!
- Feb 25, 2017
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Not as active as I used to be but I'm still lurking regularly. Won't leave anytime soon.Thanks. I haven't used it since its early rollout and I see it's improved UI. Good to know you're using it. I played around with it today, tweaked it a bit after re-reading the JShelter thread and so far so good. Seems more useful now that I'm using Chrome and of course unnecessary on Firefox, as you know.
Glad to see you posting again, my friend!
- Mar 29, 2018
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@SeriousHoax changed Chrome DOH to NextDNS with No Google and AdGuard DNS filters.
- Mar 16, 2019
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You should also add OISD full it doesn't have false positives. I found a few though but those are very rare and they fix it quickly after reporting. I also added 1host(lite) and HaGeZi - Multi PRO maybe like 2/3 weeks ago and no false positives yet.
I don't have any idea about the No Google list, but you should check if it allows Chrome updates.
