[dba-Tech] av autoplay in crhome & firefox

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sun May 28 01:20:08 CDT 2017


On 5/27/2017 23:50, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> My understanding is that Google now has to become more attuned to the complaints of share-holders who want bigger dividends. Less moon-shots,  more squeezing out those dollars and shake-downs against their users. Investor are now focused on wringing that goose's neck.

Well then, bye bye Google 'cept for their search engine.
>
> I oscillates between Google and FF but Opera and Vivaldi are worth a serious look.

With a SSD on my main work laptop, FF slowness may be less of an issue. 
How well does Is FF pan-device bookmark synchronisation seamless?
>    
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 1:02:52 PM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] av autoplay in crhome & firefox
>
> I switched from FireFox to Chrome years ago 'cuz it was faster and less
> bug-infested than FireFox, especially bookmark processing for which FF
> used SqlLite, ugly slow. I've kept using it 'cuz of the ease with which
> Chrome keeps bookmarks synchronised across multiple machines.
>
> But on Chrome, advert autoplay is increasingly common and intrusive, and
> as with much else in googleworld, complaints have no effect. They're
> reworking their autoplay policy all right---to make it worse ...
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=715049>
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> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=715049
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=715049>
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z0xqm6zRblKg3eVmNp30/edit
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z0xqm6zRblKg3eVmNp30/edit>
>
> Anyone FF users out there who can confirm that advert autoplay is less
> intrusive in FF?
>
> PB
>
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> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=715049>
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> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=715049>
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> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z0xqm6zRblKg3eVmNp30/edit>
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> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z0xqm6zRblKg3eVmNp30/edit>
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