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We sell used computers with windowa installed. We used to use edge to get chrome, and the someone suggested brave. Everyone uses brave now, except for me,the th

We sell used computers with windowa installed. We used to use edge to get chrome, and the someone suggested brave. Everyone uses brave now, except for me,the throwback uses nightly/Firefox. There I was reading news when someone on the machine next to me got a 1-800 alarm. He was shocked... So I turned off his computer, rebooted, and searched his browser history. He was looking for a printer manual, and it hit an auto forward, and in the url was a bytecode dropper. Wow. I copied the text and sent it off to my anti-virus, and scan and cleaned his machine up. Nothing was flagged except for that url, it's cache. I think I got it right before the drop,but I didn't bet on it, and reloaded os,apps and security and again a full scan. I thought he was in chrome, but he was using edge that one time. So now I have to bury all the launch points. Yes stop using chrome as your daily driver. Brave and opera were on a workstation I was cleaning up, so I flipped back and forth between them, but am going to do some deep dive on Monday.

ForOldHack 2y ago
AI predictably said anything including edge. Which is why it's the second thing I remove from the lab machines. Anyone using Puffin, Freenet or Vivaldi? I am going to spend a day with each next week on a slow system. The one thing I was looking for as an alternative to Nightly, was it's speller, that was getting old. Then a week or so ago, it has become significantly better.
- stavros 2y ago
  I use Vivaldi and really like it.
stavros 2y ago
I wouldn't recommend Opera, BTW. It was bought by some shady consortium and is no longer the browser it used to be. Vivaldi is its spiritual successor (and what I use).
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago
  I just immediately think about the Opera GX ads I’ve seen in youtube videos; it’s perhaps a bit likely that the browser that’s advertised aggressively will also aggressively advertise. I’m personally sympathetic to the lack of diversity in rendering engines, which makes any Chromium browser a no-go in my case. (iOS sucks; Apple still requires all iOS browsers to use WebKit, as far as I know.) Fortunately, LibreWolf is still actively maintained.

ForOldHack 2y ago

AI predictably said anything including edge. Which is why it's the second thing I remove from the lab machines. Anyone using Puffin, Freenet or Vivaldi? I am going to spend a day with each next week on a slow system. The one thing I was looking for as an alternative to Nightly, was it's speller, that was getting old. Then a week or so ago, it has become significantly better.

stavros 2y ago
I use Vivaldi and really like it.

stavros 2y ago

I wouldn't recommend Opera, BTW. It was bought by some shady consortium and is no longer the browser it used to be. Vivaldi is its spiritual successor (and what I use).

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago
I just immediately think about the Opera GX ads I’ve seen in youtube videos; it’s perhaps a bit likely that the browser that’s advertised aggressively will also aggressively advertise. I’m personally sympathetic to the lack of diversity in rendering engines, which makes any Chromium browser a no-go in my case. (iOS sucks; Apple still requires all iOS browsers to use WebKit, as far as I know.) Fortunately, LibreWolf is still actively maintained.