browser question

[corvairbob]

i'm getting real tired fo all the popups when i browse i now use chrome. i shy away from edge as years ago it was trash. and now it looks better but it seems to do the same as chrome does with popups. i now have to run 7 extensions in chrome to keep most of them away. but because chrome took away ublock origin now i'm now getting tons of ebay popups that will not go away. and even in searching just as soon as you click on a site you get tons of popups.

so years ago i was using firefox but then they got hacked and there security went south fast.

so what might be a good browser now that i can control the popups and control my searching? i'm not to much in favor of incognito or vpn's as then search time gets wild. i tried them a few years ago and did not care for them. and when running my security system that was terrible.

so did fire fox ever get back to a usable browser again

 

[rgd1101]

I'm using ghostery to block ad

 

[corvairbob]

i tried ghostery but it seemed to want to block websites. i had to go into the ext. and allow the sites often. ok i just reinstalled it and turned off all the other ext. now i will see if it works any better or if i once again have to go into it and allow sites. thanks.

 

[COLGeek]

I use two extensions with my browsers, Ublock Origin (or Lite) and Ghostery. Nearly zero pop-ups (I allow on some sites for proper function). No other extensions needed.

 

[corvairbob]

i had to turn ublock origin again. to get rid of junk in ebay. and most likely keep the junk out of the other site i cleaned up with it. also i see i have a new chrome update and i know that will take the ublock origin away. it did no my other pc saturday when i updated that browser. so i will leave that notice there until chrome forces the issue. when they took ublock away the lastime and force the lite version ublock again did not take all the popups away. but maybe with ghostery running and ublock lite it may work but for now only one change at a time. thanks.

 

[CParsons]

i had to turn ublock origin again. to get rid of junk in ebay. and most likely keep the junk out of the other site i cleaned up with it. also i see i have a new chrome update and i know that will take the ublock origin away. it did no my other pc saturday when i updated that browser. so i will leave that notice there until chrome forces the issue. when they took ublock away the lastime and force the lite version ublock again did not take all the popups away. but maybe with ghostery running and ublock lite it may work but for now only one change at a time. thanks.

You may wish to try Brave, it's Chromium based but w/o all the Google being in control of it stuff.

 

[corvairbob]

are you saying brave for a browser? have not hear of that one. so far tuning off all the other popup blockers and using that ghostly and ublock origin until google take the unblock away. now i have a new chrome ready and i'm sure it will install the next time i have to reboot for a win11 update and ublock origin will once again go away. then i will see if ublock lite and ghostly work together and keep those popup's away. thanks.

 

[corvairbob]

ok i got ghostery running and ublock and i still got that damn ebay popup. so has anyone ever figured that one out. that ebay popup seems to be the worst to get rid of.

 

[corvairbob]

i had to turn ublock off when i was on the drug reaction site. it kept freezing. but that may be what the sites are now doing to get you to turn off the add blockers.

 

[COLGeek]

Aside from Ublock and Ghostery, do you have other extensions installed?

Are you getting the pop-up only when on eBay, or elsewhere as well?

 

[corvairbob]

i have others installed but i have turned them off for now i have ad block, click to remove, ad block for you tube , hide that, malware browser guard. these are turned off for now to see how ghostery and ublock origin works. but when i was on the drugs.com site i had to turn ublock and ghostery off because the page ws freezing. when i turned them off up popped a ad. when i click the page it went away and did allow more work on that page.

but on ebay that popup keeps returning for everything i click on to check out. that is getting real annoying for sure. now google is taking ublock origin away. i did have a way to get it back but google figured that out now and that fails to work. they make you use the lite version of ublock and that fails to get most popups.

most sites that you click on the page and the ad goes away for the duration i can deal with but ebay with it returning every time you click on a listing is real annoying now. i sure would like to render that useless. i did have it gone and they figured a way around it again or so it looks like. in the ublcok origin i have all the lists turned on and ebays popup still returns now. i did report that popup again but so far it has not been tsaken care of on ublock. thanks

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Firefox with Privacy Badger and UBlock Origin are all that's required (Nothing of Google anywhere in the vicinity)

 

[Erasable]

so did fire fox ever get back to a usable browser again

Firefox at one time was really slow compared to other browsers. It has since been good but is always catching up with Chromium. Memory consumption is better than Chrome. Easy to use and reasonably private.

 

[corvairbob]

well like i said chrome came up with a restart and i held out as long as i could and then win11 had to reboot and i lost the unblock origin ext. and the link i saved for getting ublock origin back will not work now. so now all the popups are back. the ublock lite just will not keep them away.


so is fire fox good at security now? i used that browser maybe 5 years or so ago but it was getting bad at security and the win10 guys were going away from that browser, so i went to chrome.

so if i go back to firefox will it copy my bookmarks over from chrome to firefox or will i have to start over? edge will copy my bookmarks but edge is about as bad as chrome for popups.

 

[rgd1101]

not sure what you mean by bad security.

 

[corvairbob]

in doing some research reddit has a page that talks of chrome vs firefox and they all claim Firefox is more private but less secure. they do not get updates as often. that is one reason i got away form firefox a few years ago, they also claim that firefox is an offshoot of chrome. and that firefox seems to sue a lot of the same programming. so if that is true and i will need to do a lot of relearning again i may stay with chrome. but i did install badger and will see if ti can keep some of the half page popups away. if not then i may just go to firefox again and do some relearning again. thanks

 

[rgd1101]

I claim internet is full of false claim.

 

[Wolfshadw]

so if i go back to firefox will it copy my bookmarks over from chrome to firefox or will i have to start over?

You will likely need to export from Chrome and Import into Firefox.

In Chrome, click Customize and control Google Chrome (three vertical dots, upper right).
Mouse over Bookmarks and Links and then select Bookmark Manager.
Click Organize (the three vertical dots to the right of the search bar).
Select Export Bookmarks and save to a known location.

-Wolf sends

Edit: The above refers to Google Chrome version 138.0.7204.101 on Windows 10.

 

[corvairbob]

thanks for that help.

 

[asphaltlaval]

Firefox is 100% back on the menu. The post-hack slump was real, but they’ve rebuilt their security cred and now outperform Chrome on privacy. Here’s why it’s worth another shot:

uBlock Origin still works flawlessly (Chrome gutted ad-blockers, Firefox didn’t).
Strict tracker blocking by default (no extension spaghetti).
Less RAM-hungry than Chrome in 2024 (yes, really).

If you’re allergic to Firefox: Brave (Chrome without Google’s ad-cancer) or hardened Edge (Settings > Privacy > "Strict") are decent backups.

My tip: Ditch Chrome’s half-baked ad-blockers for AdGuard as a temporary band-aid, but long-term—Firefox + uBlock is the popup-free paradise you’re after.