Re: Need a a second browser?

On 1/18/2021 8:59 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 1/17/2021 11:00 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:
>> Problem: The demise of Flash has caused IE and me a problem. I'm using
>> Windows 7 so IE is sort of ancient. I listened to internet radio using
>> IE and that no longer works. (https://v7player.wostreaming.net/854) I
>> used IE so I could easily use FF without worrying about interactions
>> among tabs, e.g., a bank account in one tab and anything else in
>> another. When I open a radio station in a tab. I need to start a new
>> browser whenever I want to do most anything else. Further, I now must be
>> careful not to shut the radio down by accident. When IE worked, I just
>> used FF for everything else and never worried about it.
>>
>> So what I'm looking for is another browser for Windows 7 (not IE or FF)
>> that 1) does not need Flash to play radio stations, 2) is light weight
>> since that is all it's going to do, and 3) does not offend with a lot of
>> crapware as the price for using it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> BTW, running radio in separate FF window fails: every time I try open a
>> URL it becomes a tab in the same browser window as the radio resides.
>>
> 
> Have you concisdered using a streaming application for listening to the
> radio?  I use VideoLAN (VLC) from <http://www.videolan.org/>.

Thanks for the reply.

I downloaded and tried VLC and it didn't seem to work. I tried the 
"network" stream option for "https://v7player.wostreaming.net/854" and 
that led to an error.

The idea of using a program to just handle the streaming is appealing if 
I just knew how to make it work. Ideally, I'd just have a shortcut that 
I clicked to start listening.
-- 
Jeff Barnett