On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 06:08:08 +0100, poma wrote:
On 25.11.2013 21:50, Beartooth wrote:
>
> In the past, I have always set my default browser to Dillo, which
> is very fast and very safe; and it usually shows me at least enough to
> guess reasonably well whether I want to go on, switch to another
> browser,
> or skip the site.
Web browser with rudimentary https/ssl support you are considering safe
[1]. Really?
Yes. That has been part of its purpose for well over ten years,
if not since inception. It does not accept cookies, nor keep a history
file, for instance. It aims to be as nearly minimal as it can, short of
being text-only. The idea, as with the early routers, is to have nothing
there for a cracker to get hold of.
> I've managed to make it a partial default (under xfce4 in
F18).
> Pan, for instance, routinely opens links in Dillo. Alpine, however,
> does not. (I run Alpine on a remote host, over ssh; is that relevant?
> It does open Firefox.)
Fwiw, my experience elsewhere is that getting a program on one
machine to manage apps on another is not trivial.
> Like so many other things of late, the software to set default
> choices seems to have been moved to some new place, without leaving a
> spoor behind to follow. So the place I found to set defaults is quite
> likely not the main one. What is??
You too really don't have idea what you're talking about.
Don't you?
Is it my imagination, or has the use of common courtesy dropped
several levels lately?
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.