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works well, i like it as a more trustworthy alternative to ghostery
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works well, i like how it learns which trackers are bad or good and adjusts accordingly to keep your browser and personal data safe! i have stopped use a adblocker because this works so well. because a lot of advisements have malware trackers in them , it's has stopped ads on youtube.
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the rotten tomatoes web-page which i use extensively started to open with no pictures. i suspected cookies & so cleared them out but to no avail. the next suspect was extensions &, as this was the last one added, i switched off & voila! rotten tomatoes is now loading correctly.
having 'all else failed', i've now read the instructions & disabled pb on rotten's site & all is well. doh!
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it seems to work pretty well.
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https everywhere can be enables in most browser's settings without addon
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so far i'm loving this extension. on the other hand i imagine that google is hating it. and facebook. and twitter. and addthis. and so on and so on...
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i'm not very interested in the privacy aspect of this extension (because i use a vpn), but it can make websites like fandom/wikia load faster than the speed of light. adblock plus and privacy badger make an excellent duo.
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same thing happened to me. i just uninstalled it altogether because nothing would load.
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like the way that it learns as it goes. never felt completely comfortable with everything blocked in abp or ghostery since they rendered many sites in error or non-functional. wasn't such a big deal for me but made it problematic for less experienced user. privacy badger is easy to use for advanced users that want to block everything but still offers good protection and functionality to users who just prefer to browse.
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note that yesterday's update has broken videos using both flash and html5 formats for many sites on the chrome browser. disabling it on those sites (or disabling the extension) will fix the problem. the firefox version did not have the effect of breaking these videos.
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does not block trackers by default nor does it give you the option to change this setting (in fact, it lacks any type of settings)
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it appears facebook, twitter, and ajax.googleapis have found a way to get around privacy badger.
i just can not believe those 3 (and plenty of others) are not actively tracking me when they are listed under "the domains below don't appear to be tracking you"
developers, please take a closer look at this.
if their not tracking, then why are they present?
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used to work really well but recently it has suffered. regularly the extension will prevent the page from loading. you'll see a "waiting for privacy badger" message. i assume it's because it's grabbing external scripts somewhere. there really should be a fall back option so that if it times out the page can still load. i keep having to disable it and am close to removing. i still have hope though!
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stopped eleven trackers on one website.
laptop seems faster and
no buffering.
could be coincidence.
but at the very least
facebook doesn't know what i'm doing any more.
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this app breaks reddit if it's installed for longer than a week. they need to fix this.
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could you update your review please? the bug was fixed promptly.
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i love it a lot. it does a great job behind the scenes and has the big plus of being governed by the eff. there are rare occasions where i have to intervene (once a month?). the intervention is most of the time simple (move a slider in the popup).
it drastically improves my internet experience on a daily basis. what could you want more?
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does nothing for my computer. i have not seen this application be able to block anything. i tried it for a week and find it hard to believe that all the sites i visit are are tracker free and safe. i uninstalled this add-on today.
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works well. a bit overzealous sometimes but the interface is great and makes it easy to unblock stuff as required.
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half the time it works, other half it prevents any page from loading with "waiting for privacy badger"
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initially, it seems pretty cool. i used it for about six months, if you read about this on some other professional reviews, you'll find something to the effect of "it's cool, but breaks the internet experience" and that's kinda true. after you install this, depending if you are a power user or facebook only internet user, be prepared to spend 5-10 minutes a day playing the "recaptcha" clicking on the picture games for literally every site you go to. does that sound too bad" well that's 30-60 hours of year you are wasting with recaptcha because your user experience is indeed kinda broken. some may say paying 30-60 hours of your life away each year is a small price to pay for added privacy, but i think you are getting by just fine using ublock, https everywhere and paying for adguard. you have to weigh it yourself. give it a try for sure. but i think there are better options out there. you'll have a lot more time to live life without this horrible extension wasting your time.
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i installed this and when i go to extensions i get a warning that says "not from chrome web store", even though i added it from chrome web store.
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this application does the job it is designed to do very well. i am always interested in seeing the absurd number of intrusions that it has blocked in certain websites. my problem with it is that it seriously effects the working of a number of websites. in particular many websites are unable to play or load videos. while i am sure that some videos are problematic i dont believe as many as it is blocking are. the problem is that when you look at the drop down box it is impossible to see which of the elements being blocked are privacy related and which are content related. i am sure that this is somethign to do with the underlying content, but it means that bar spending 10 minutes every time i want to play a video, i simply end up turning off its protection, which defeats the point of having it in the first place. however most of the time this works without having to think about it
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because it's not an ad blocker. it's confusing for me too. it works tho. just not as an ad blocker.
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if it had whitelisting capability, it would make this app even better :d
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the rotten tomatoes web-page which i use extensively started to open with no pictures. i suspected cookies & so cleared them out but to no avail. the next suspect was extensions &, as this was the last one added, i switched off & voila! rotten tomatoes is now loading correctly.
having 'all else failed', i've now read the instructions & disabled pb on rotten's site & all is well. doh!
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made the charts in tradingview all wonky/misaligned scales. had to remove. no idea why it would have an effect.
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this is a good extension, and it's worth using overall.
however, it has a few problems that i'd love to see fixed in an update:
- speed, it does significantly slow down browsing and i'd hope it could be made faster.
- doesn't work with refcontrol, and doesn't provide replacement functionality. i want to forge third-party referers as refcontrol allows, but that's not possible with this extension. this causes some sites to behave unexpectedly (for example, forbes.com).
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you care about privacy but still use fb 😕?
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need configurable exclusion list/whitelist.
the longer i use it the worse it interferes with google and other logins!!
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blocked me from opening ads i wanted to see; articles i wanted to read; etc. and when i uninstalled it, chrome acted erratically. do not install this. i had to re-add it to chrome to post this review. now i will re-uninstall it.
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massively slows the loading of the browser even on my top-end gaming pc. makes the browser lock up (windows states that it is unresponsive and asks if i want to close chrome) for 30 to 40 seconds each and every time that the browser is loaded. the situation is predictably worse on this under powered notebook from which i am presently writing this review. this add-on is a great idea, but has terrible execution.
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extremely good and useful. but recently slows surfing to a crawl.
a lot of pages show "waiting for privacy badger"
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downloaded from chrome store but that isn't what the extension says?
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i have run it under firefox for about 6 months and have not had any problems. i just loaded it under chrome, and started reading reviews that say it doesn't work well under chrome so i may be deleting it in the very near future.
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i've been using this app on firefox for a while and loved it. now that i'm on chrome i've added it for the protection.
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not a lot of options apart from notifications and activation/deactivation but works well. its not supposed to make your fingerprint not unique but does deceive a lot of sites
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seems to work perfectly. it does need a whitelist for the troublesome sites.
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works as expected. you should put the repository on github so we can make a settings page to allow customization.
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exceptional, have used in multiple pc's and it's crazy how it's safe & at the same protects what you dear the most! :)
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i had high hopes, since i saw the popups appearing during the panopticlick scan.
yet at the end i had the disappointment:
does your browser protect from fingerprinting? ✗ your browser has a unique fingerprint
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dont work. i tested with uniquemachine.org and it identified me everytime
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seems to work well. only thing is for panopticlick it seems to break something which makes me a bit wary.
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it's great at what it does. and i was shocked to see just how many sites are using browser fingerprinting of one sort or another.
but it really needs some configuration options. you can't even turn it on and off from the menubar if it breaks a site. you've got to actually open your browser's preferences and disable it, which is about as user-unfriendly as you can get.
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it's great at what it does. and i was shocked to see just how many sites are using browser fingerprinting of one sort or another.
but it really needs some configuration options. you can't even turn it on and off from the menubar if it breaks a site. you've got to actually open your browser's preferences and disable it, which is about as user-unfriendly as you can get.
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it doesn't work. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ still detects my unique fingerprint when it's used.
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yes. when you click the extension there is a toggle to turn it on and off. when in the 'on' position, it shows as gray in the extension icon
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not a lot of options apart from notifications and activation/deactivation but works well. its not supposed to make your fingerprint not unique but does deceive a lot of sites
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it seems like this only works against some trackers; i get random fingerprints on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ or https://browserleaks.com/canvas, but i don't get them on https://fingerprintjs.com/demo/ (an actual, paid product for this service).
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good privacy app. wish there were a customizations page.
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exceptional, have used in multiple pc's and it's crazy how it's safe & at the same protects what you dear the most! :)
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good privacy app. wish there were a customizations page.
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perfect, does what i need it to do, it will randomize your fingerprint across all sites trying to read it.
i tested with panopticlick and every time it gave a different fingerprint. this is a great extension for anyone looking for an extra layer of anonymity.
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does exactly what it should do and claims it does. tested at https://browserleaks.com/canvas
i like that this is a one-exploit fix instead of a plugin claiming to spoof all forms of user fingerprinting, since new methods of that come up all the time. it's better to be certain that you have a particular weakness patched up because you have an extension that corresponds to it exactly, than to go without preventing a leak because you assumed it was included in some catchall extension but it wasn't.
ps: anyone who cannot figure out that they can click on the extension's icon and pick "show|hide desktop notifications" simply doesn't deserve to use this extension. heh. really, the developer should just turn this option off by default, since it's obviously the only thing causing unhappy feedback.
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yes. when you click the extension there is a toggle to turn it on and off. when in the 'on' position, it shows as gray in the extension icon
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awesome, does exactly what i need it to do! although, i know how to detect this with javascript, it just takes a little bit of thinking ;-).
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does what's advertised. many users may find it difficult to add custom uas to the extension since the link to the settings page in the menu was removed several updates ago. right click on the icon and click options to find it again.
3 stars because of ridiculous disimprovement in ui since the first time i installed it.
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it's so old, it completely useless. most web pages wont even load with this installed.
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you can add googlebot, from “custom user-agents”, in the extension settings page. according to the webpage at the bottom of my post, googlebot's user-agent is “mozilla/5.0 (compatible; googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
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how about some export options? or that "centralized user agents list" that someone was talking about a while back?
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was able to get html5 video to play on bbc
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great tool - which would be perfect if it synced its settings across all of my pcs which are logged into chrome.
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does not work. 05/2013. latest chrome.
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very limited on options of browsers and devices.
go with something else unless they update the list.
only one flavor of android, etc.
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wish it would remember the setting per page, and that the default user-agents would be updated.
mine still shows kitkat for android...
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nice extension, but it doesn't work.
at least on linux, chrome version 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit)
sorry, i managed to make it work.
for everybody needing this info: you need to go to extensions settings and check the box "allow access to file urls" fot this extension.
then it works :)
thank you for this great plugin!
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this extension doesn't allow arbitrary uas. only a number of preset uas. disappointing.
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i use this for roblox items
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it works! i had to delete all chromium 17 settings to force it to update completely and after that all works fine.
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also, if its too troublesome to add new versions every time there's an update
please allow manual entry of user agent string (if that works)
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if you want you can in fact get a chromium 59 based browser for 32-bit linux:
http://www.slimjet.com/en/dlpage.php
slimjet have much more settings (than google chrome) - small part of which you can see on this screenshot:
http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/portable-slimjet_13.png
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please provide reasoning for why each permission:
"access your page data on all websites"
"access your tabs and browsing history"
is necessary
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i removed it and readded it and it works again.
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this is exactly what i had in mind...android/ios sites on web chrome...love it!!
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i use this browser extension a lot and has a lot of custom user agents added to it. i see the option to export the content to json but dont see a button for importing the json data back. i am stuck after choosing the json file from browse. please help.
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roughly seems to work, but gives this error under
chrome://settings/extensions :
this extension failed to modify a network request because the modification conflicted with another extension.
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easy to use and very handy for work and testing!
but there is no internet explorer 9 10 or 11? those are the browsers i primarily test on :(
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while it enables chrome to act as different browsers, after short while i discovered that the "default" setting does not return chrome to its original state; now i seldom can do search from the address bar as it kept informing me that instant search is not available, while previously i have no problem with that.
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i love it, but can you make a user agent for the wii u and other nintendo consoles?
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does not work on opentable.com. i can see in http headers sent that it is still sending the browser's own user agent, not the one i selected. this is despite the extension icon correctly showing the user agent it is supposedly configured to use. does work on other sites though. so there is a weird bug somewhere.
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easy to use and very handy for work and testing!
but there is no internet explorer 9 10 or 11? those are the browsers i primarily test on :(
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great extension for web development. easily allows you to define and add you own custom user agents to the pre-defined list.
i wish it would work per-window, however. unfortunately, switching your user agent in a single tab or window globally changes your user agents, which generally breaks all of my other open browser windows.
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works great for exchange webmail from linux.
i used the below user agent:
mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 6.2; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/32.0.1667.0 safari/537.36
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very good one. helped me a lot.
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it works, if for example you choose ie9, if it's working a little ie9 icon will appear under the little mask.
if it doesn't it's not working, in which case simply remove it from chrome then re-add it.
regards,
mike
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use this all the time. tried many alternatives, and this one won me over on the first use. continues to improve, also. thanks glenn!
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in addition to asking for permission to "display notifications" and "change your privacy-related settings", it's also asking for permission to "read and change all your data on the websites you visit". that sounds pretty extreme. what's it need that permission for? i've left scriptsafe disabled for now.
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used to love it.
alas, as many others have written, it has taken a turn for the worse since the rename.
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was fine now so useless i have disabled it hoping it gets better soon
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finally gave me a reason to switch from ffx
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i've been using it for a long time now to block ads and other unwanted content. it's not perfect, but it's great. there are moments where it seems to have like a hundred things to block or unblock, but it's tolerable.
right now, however, i am experiencing a popup on my homepage "chrome://apps/" where it detects that i have things synched to google and asks for permission to do so every time i launch chrome even though i have it set not to provide that popup.
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awesome add-on, and superior to noscript. the people complaining that its 'too complicated' to allow trusted sites are simply inexperienced computer users. if you have even a rudimentary understanding of html and website file structures scriptsafe is the add-on you want. you can specifically enable only the scripts you want to run on the site. as i said if you know what you are doing this is superior to noscript because you can make sure that only the script for the site and the comments section works, for example. absolutely no chance of malicious scripts running with this on your chrome.
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wonderful extension. hwever i wish there was a way to allow all tld's (top level domains) but block all else, just like in noscript for firefox.
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it could be a brilliant ***** app but ...
works most of the time but there are some critical sites that don't work for me.
need to implement a diagnostic/reporting feedback process for sites that are broken to improve this extension.
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its like a condom to have safe sex with piratebay
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i'm using this with google's chrome dev channel build and it works quite well.
i've been a firefox user for years and had been going back to firefox because of the noscript add-on. if you're familiar with noscript on firefox you'll quickly find this useful and about as intuitive as noscript.
one thing i really like about firefox's latest nightly build is that, by default when connecting to a site via https, firefox will block all insecure elements.
adblock plus is available for chrome and now i have a noscript equivalent. for the first time in many tech years i've set a different browser to be my default.
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adding an option to enable/disable on whitelisted website will improve using this plugin.
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great extension! question, with this extension i've been able to see how many "pieces" of js a site tries to run, and in facebook's case it can range from 30 to 40, why on earth would a site need to be so darn heavy on js? thanks.
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terribly annoying to use. i prefer noscript for firefox. much more intuitive and user friendly. this extension is very annoying and gui is terrible. the biggest issue with it is on facebook and making comments or posts. i suggest future versions use facebook as a sample test. otherwise, i will be using firefox when i go to facebook. aside from this, scriptsafe does speed up your browsing considerably.
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performed a system restore, and couldn't sync my data any further. keep getting this error: "failed to open database: corruption: 1 missing files; e.g.: .../000152.sst
thinking it was a bug, i uninstalled and reinstalled. tried to perform a sync, but got the same error message. i am unable to sync from or to the google account.
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