Any browser based on the Chromium engine can only display a max of 6 stream windows and most modern security cameras are outputting in H.264 mpeg video format of which Chromium does not have an encoder built in. However, there are builds of Chromium out there that have that codec added and will have no problems with the security cam output.
Microsoft has an H.264 codec available for 99 cents that will go into Windows and the browsers will offload to it if it's present. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck Hast Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 7:43 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations I have been using a browser called Vivaldi of late. I have a batch of IP cameras that I monitor. Chrome was giving me fits with some of them, Firefox others, somehow or another I tripped over Vivaldi. Read the info on it pulled it down and gave it a try. I use it for presentations regarding the Amateur radio network called AREDN. Vivaldi lets me jump from live screen to live screen with no issues. I have some cameras that Chrome does not want to display, Vivaldi displays them all and it appears to be quite fast. On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM MC_Sequoia <[email protected]> wrote: > "I find Google to be quite intrusive and I'm at an age where I value > the privacies we used to have and try to retain as much of them as possible. > > That's my main concern." > > I take privacy & security pretty seriously and I'm also very > anti-corporate. One of things I actually like about Google is that in > my Google account settings I can disable all of the tracking, history > as well as see what 2rd party apps/sites are allowed to connect to my > Google account. > > There's a high degree of control and transparency, in my very > non-security/privacy professional opinion. Last summer I was locked > out of my Google account that I had 2 factor auth setup on for over a > week after I lost my phone. I had to go through a quite involved > security process to recover my account even with them having my name, phone > number and address. > > One common privacy recommendation for any browser is to use a few well > known & well reviewed browser extensions such as Cookie Autodelete, > uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere. > > More info here - > https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/online-privacy-change- > these-browser-settings-asap/ > > Lastly, I don't know if this was mentioned but you can also set the > Brave search engine as your default search engine. More info here - > https://search.brave.com/default > > > > > >
