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Life without Flash: share your tips and tricks.

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Cox Orange

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wobegong said:
Reasonably happy to report that all the above sites work perfectly with the exception of sportschau.de where the spinning circle when the video loads just keeps spinning and no video actually shows.
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Thank you!
GermanyChris said:
Why were you on Bon Prix??
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Goftrey said:
Are you a chick or do you just like to dress up?
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Haha! Good "point"! My mother isn't that capable of using the web and furthermore, they have men's wear in their catalogue, while the actual stores do not have men's wear. Their catalogue is one of the rare ones that have jeans for tall thin persons. But unfortunately I am still to thin or tall, so I had no luck with their offers, too.

Yesterday bitburger.de refused to let me use their site, before I would download one of 8 browsers they suggested (which all are Intel only :rolleyes: ). They didn't like me to use Safari or Firefox. Sunrise did work then. The others would have worked, too, but it was imposssible to click anywere with the message "please download one of these newer browsers" in front. With sunrise the message did not come up.

On sportschau.de: I asked them why they not use html5 and they answered, if it detects that you do not have fitting flash version it automatically switches to html5 for smartphones, but it didn't.

I can use the bonprix site with Safari, but not with Firefox, by the way. I still use Firefox as main because of the video download helper (which others mentioned above).
 
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MrPilot

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B-G said:
The problem with Roccat and most of the other Webkit based browsers is that out of the box they use the outdated, Apple supplied frameworks that came with Safari 5.0.6.
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I was maybe wrong then. I thought safari in webkit for leopard was not a "framework" but rather "a front end" using webkit as "back end" or "frameworks" as you called it.

See, the confusing part is that webkit2 is being inserted into webkit for leopard. Surely that must be the engine? And that would make it quite capable?

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Cox Orange said:
Thank you!


Haha! Good "point"! My mother isn't that capable of using the web and furthermore, they have men's wear in their catalogue, while the actual stores do not have men's wear. Their catalogue is one of the rare ones that have jeans for tall thin persons. But unfortunately I am still to thin or tall, so I had no luck with their offers, too.

Yesterday bitburger.de refused to let me use their site, before I would download one of 8 browsers they suggested (which all are Intel only :rolleyes: ). They didn't like me to use Safari or Firefox. Sunrise did work then. The others would have worked, too, but it was imposssible to click anywere with the message "please download one of these newer browsers" in front. With sunrise the message did not come up.

On sportschau.de: I asked them why they not use html5 and they answered, if it detects that you do not have fitting flash version it automatically switches to html5 for smartphones, but it didn't.

I can use the bonprix site with Safari, but not with Firefox, by the way. I still use Firefox as main because of the video download helper (which others mentioned above).
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Btw, that shopping site worked fine on powerboko G4 with webkit for leopard. I even got the intro to play. I have click to flash installed, so I had to right click "load all plugins" and it all worked fine.
 
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B-G

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MrPilot said:
I was maybe wrong then. I thought safari in webkit for leopard was not a "framework" but rather "a front end" using webkit as "back end" or "frameworks" as you called it.

See, the confusing part is that webkit2 is being inserted into webkit for leopard. Surely that must be the engine? And that would make it quite capable?
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This old post from Cameron Kaiser should clarify things a bit.
 
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MrPilot

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B-G said:
This old post from Cameron Kaiser should clarify things a bit.
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Thanks, will check it out!

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B-G said:
This old post from Cameron Kaiser should clarify things a bit.
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Ok, had a good read and verifies what I was saying; Safari being a front-end or "shell" for webkit, which is the back-end or "frame-work".
If they actually do go with webkit2 framework or not remains to be seen. But it sure looks like it ;)
 
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B-G

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Cox Orange,
I did read your post, but I have been extremely busy in the last few days, so I didn't find the time to answer. Sorry it took me so long to post this.
If I remember correctly you were asking what are the most secure Webkit based and Gecko based browsers.
To be perfectly honest I don't think I'm knowledgeable enough to properly answer that question. The reason I use L-W and TFF is that I think they offer the best balance between security and functionality. They both use extensions, and those can be a game changer. NoScript is a big security enhancer. Although I don't use it, Ghostery seems very interesting too, and it runs on both browsers. I also use Glimmer Blocker to filter javascript, ads and social networks widgets, and I'm considering switching to Privoxy, that seems to be even more powerful, doesn't require Java and runs on Linux too,
I'm sorry I can't be of more help.
 
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Cox Orange

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Thank you B-G!

GermanyChris said:
That doesn't make you any less a girl ;)

Bon Prix is OK don't worry
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Hihi *giggling girlish* ;) the post I deleted was, I was asking if one can judge by a web browser's design (I guess using "design" does only bring me into further trouble :eek:) :D - meaning architecture) whether it is a more save browser or not.

I deleted it in a girlish effort, to not seem stupid and embarrass myself. I thought nobody is answering, because the question is sooo damn stupid, that I actually should know this myself.
 
GermanyChris

GermanyChris

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Cox Orange said:
Thank you B-G!



Hihi *giggling girlish* ;) the post I deleted was, I was asking if one can judge by a web browser's design (I guess using "design" does only bring me into further trouble :eek:) :D - meaning architecture) whether it is a more save browser or not.

I deleted it in a girlish effort, to not seem stupid and embarrass myself. I thought nobody is answering, because the question is sooo damn stupid, that I actually should know this myself.
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It's OK go on in German that's what my wife does :p

I understand I mad and it's your fault it deutsche
 
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B-G

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The latest release of ClickToPlugin (2.8.4) integrates the YouTube Flash Proxy extension, and can be used on Youtube without installing Flash or the ClickToFlash plugin (which is still needed for all the other sites, though).
 
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gooser

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tips and tricks for doing without flash? very easy for me. when i am on the internet i either have music or a tv playing in the background. or silence. the last thing i want is for the internet to be talking to me. so i guess the easiest way to do without flash is to have no use for it.
 
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Member2010

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the easy fix

My tips and tricks for life without flash:

1. Terminate it - not life itself :D, just the "without flash" part. It takes all of three minutes to install it and enable plugins in TenFourFox and I find that I don't have any problems.

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rabidz7

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Cox Orange said:
Thank you B-G!



Hihi *giggling girlish* ;) the post I deleted was, I was asking if one can judge by a web browser's design (I guess using "design" does only bring me into further trouble :eek:) :D - meaning architecture) whether it is a more save browser or not.

I deleted it in a girlish effort, to not seem stupid and embarrass myself. I thought nobody is answering, because the question is sooo damn stupid, that I actually should know this myself.
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What are you snortin?
 
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B-G

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I updated the info.plist file for the old ClickToFlash plugin (see first post) to match the new Flash 12.0.0.38
 
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