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DaveRo BS: Can Viruses Talk? (30) RE: BS: Can Viruses Talk? 14 Aug 22

Mr Red wrote: FireFox now loads amazingly slowly if my broadband is connected ...convince me the the new owner is not trawling for data...
What 'new owner'?

Firefox does download data about how you browse - called 'telemetry'. You can opt out:
Telemetry collection and deletion

It also downloads lists of websites that have been reported to contain malware and updates to addons, blacklists, and other things. So it will take longer to load when online, but not much longer IME. Certainly not 'amazingly' so.
...a better browser written by the original FireFox boffin
Perhaps it was Brave. That was created by Brendan Eich, who co-founded Mozilla which took the Netscape browser and turned it into the opensource browser which is now called Firefox. Brendan is also famous for inventing Javascript - over a weekend IIRC.

Brave should run Mudcat Browser Tools ;)

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