Re: about:config

On 02/21/2021 10:48 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 10:02:41, EE <[email protected]> wrote (my responses
> usually follow points raised):
>>Andy Burns wrote:
>>> The Real Bev wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there an equivalent for Chrome?  It's woefully inadequate as far
>>>>as  official options.
>>>  Well, there's <chrome://flags>
>>>
>>But those settings are experimental, and tend to disappear after a
>>while when the permanent settings are reconfigured.
>
> So, I gather from reading here and allied 'groups, do the ones in
> Firefox - and/or, new ones are introduced that do the same thing (or
> worse, _almost_ the same thing) and cause the ones we know to be
> superseded.
>
> The explanation - when anyone can find one, that is - usually includes
> the horrible and insulting word "deprecated". (Always in the third
> person, as if to give more weight.)

I think that's only used in linux;  users of other OSs wouldn't know 
what it meant :-)

The Security Game refers to negative information ("I'm pretty sure that 
guy smokes pot!") as 'derogatory'.  I always thought that was 
inaccurate.

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Cheers, Bev
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