I avoid Chrome -- to hard to use. I only use it for testing my website. When you use 2 F'Fox windows, you get strange results. Maybe its because they share caches. If you use Chrome you have 2 separate caches.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:35 PM Mike Pumford <mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk> wrote: > > > > On 02/07/2021 13:38, Rhialto wrote: > > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 07:39:20 -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > >> I started NetBSD, and shutoff IPF. Pinging mail.google.com and > >> gsuite.google.com both got immediate > >> results. If I left IPF down, and start FireFox, and goto > >> mail.google.com, I get the "Critical Security Alert" popup, > >> and the mouse gets frozen. I need to press the button, and reboot. > >> > >> How much of this prob is IPF and how much is Google? > > > > IPF doesn't do popups of any sort, so that is easy. > > > Yes. I've stopped using IPF in favour of NPF since I switch to 9.x but > that was because I could see that eventually support for it was going to > stagnate. Inever had any real problems with performance before I did > switch. > > I run my firewall on NetBSD so traffic from all the devices in my house > flows through NPF (and used to go through IPF) with no obvious > performance impact. Happy to help out troubleshooting either your > existing IPF ruleset or working out how to do what you need with NPF. > > > Have you tried installing an ad blocker? uBlock Origin is good; I > > use it with some extra filter lists enabled. A javascript blocker, such > > as NoScript, is also good for safety, but a bit more annoying in > > practical usage, because there are so many web pages that use javascript > > where they totally shouldn't. > > > > The firefox addon module has got a bit grumpy about displaying add-ons > on netbsd but you can get past that and they work fine. :) > > Without adblocking the web is a pretty nasty place for that sort of > horrible popup. I always spot how rubbish the web is when I'm forced out > of Firefox into Chrome on my mobile where you can't install add blocking > add ons. I never cared about the adverts on sites until they started > attacking my PC. I see an adblocking add on not as an anti-commercial > statement but a security statement. > > I did just do a test access of my gmail account via firefox on 9.2 > stable (but with a few months out of date firefox-84 package. Apart from > the small delay while I dealt with the 2 factor auth popup on my phone > the access was pretty quick. > > Mike
