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Old 27th July 2013 | 22:15
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Have been using Firefox for a long time but finding it takes up more and more resources to load.

Anybody got ideas of a decent alternate................Anything from Microgle isn't on list.
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Old 27th July 2013 | 23:07
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Chrome is by far the best if you ask me.
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Old 27th July 2013 | 23:49
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Decent Bowser

This is a rather cool one....

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Old 28th July 2013 | 07:06
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Try Pale Moon it's faster than FF, or SRWare Iron which is Chrome with all of Google's nasty privacy invasions removed.
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Old 28th July 2013 | 10:02
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Safari....
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Old 28th July 2013 | 11:26
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Seconded for SRWare Iron provided you don't want frills.
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Old 28th July 2013 | 18:36
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And for Mac users?
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Old 28th July 2013 | 18:55
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Opera.

Just give it a try.
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Old 28th July 2013 | 20:15
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There's about ten out there. Just try them all and see what suits.
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Old 28th July 2013 | 21:32
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And for Mac users?
As I said.... safari

I much prefer it to Firefox on a mac.
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Old 30th July 2013 | 18:37
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green, how do you know that SRWare Iron is free from privacy invasions? You never know.
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Old 30th July 2013 | 18:49
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Capot Excellent !!!
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Old 30th July 2013 | 19:02
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how do you know that SRWare Iron is free from privacy invasions? You never know.
The Range, I did not say that. What I said was "with all of Google's nasty privacy invasions removed." they are:

RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google or once every 24 hours.
Google search access on startup for users with Google as default search
A unique ID ("clientID") for identifying the user in logs.
A timestamp of when the browser was installed.
Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
Google Updater automatic installation.
DNS pre-fetching, because it could potentially be used by spammers.
Automatic address bar search suggestions.
Bug tracking system, sends information about crashes or errors.

Plus tracking information.


how do you know that SRWare Iron is free from privacy invasions?
Since SRWare Iron is an open source project you download the source code and check it.

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