Thanks Allan. Easy enough to experiment, I'll try disabling the extensions next time and see if that helps with the websites in question. ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > Chrome and Edge are now effectively the same. Edge is just a Microsoft > veneer over Chrome internals. > > Is your Firefox up to date? It's not any "older" than Chrome, in the sense > that both are actively developed and updated. > > I have found that some Google sites such as Docs and gMail do seem faster > in Chrome. Surprise surprise. But they do generally "work" in Firefox also, > at least for me. > > I'd say it's more likely that your ad blockers are the problem than > Firefox itself. I use uBlock Origin, and it seems to work pretty well. I > have not tried any others. > > Allan > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, at 6:26 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > > I've got some ad blocker extensions for FF, but that's it.he s > > > > The issue is that some websites just never load properly. I'm not geek > > enough to explain it, but I suspect that newer browsers like Chrome and > > Edge can do more tricks and tips, and some websites are written to use > > those features, and they are not written to be "backward compatible" to > > also work with the older browsers. > > > > Some of these are online retail sites, some are social sites, some are > news > > sites. Not very many, but happening more and more often. > > ------------- > > Max > > Charleston SC > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:54 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What is the issue with FF? I use it, but I have several ad-ons that > help > > > to insure a bit of privacy. > > > > > > See the attached screenshot for details. > > > > > > That is my mobile browser. My laptop is setup very similar. It is > amazing > > > how many scripts run on an average web page. > > > > > > > > > Rick > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
