borderline OT fireox question

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Jul 16 23:52:59 UTC 2016


On 07/16/16 11:14, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:36:13 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>>> Well the simple solution to that is turn of javascript.
>> Which renders 99% of "modern" web pages totally unusable
>> (as in "stop using that web page")...
> Perhaps running two instances of FF, with different profiles helps.
>
>    [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ firefox --help|grep -i profile
>      -P <profile>       Start with <profile>.
>      --profile <path>   Start with profile at <path>.
>      --ProfileManager   Start with ProfileManager.
>
> firefox -P one_per_cent
> firefox -P hundred_per_cent
>
> :D
>
> Joking apart, as already pointed out, click the search icon and
> unchecks "Provide search suggestions", if you want to use the Google
> search, or add  Startpage   and make it the default. Startpage provides
> quasi the same hits as Google does, since it's based on Google, but it
> provides better privacy. Note, by default Startpage has got family
> filters enabled and this filter sometimes misvalues a search term.
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Already did both (uncheck, Startpage), we'll see how it goes.

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