OLC in Firefox?

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:04:54 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

On 1/11/21 4:08 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:02:55 -0500, Moshe Braner wrote:

In recent weeks/months I can load an OLC flight page OK in my off-beat
browser (Pale Moon), but if I open the page in Firefox it never shows
me the map of the flight, it forever says "Please wait, loading in
progress..." in that part of the page. But it does show the text info
of the flight. Must be something in the Firefox settings or add-ons?
I have an ad-blocker add-on, but telling it to leave the OLC pages
alone does not help. Firefox used to display OLC pages OK some months
back, before I foolishly allowed it to "upgrade" to a newer version.
Anybody have the same issue? (No, I won't use Chrome...)

The only annoyance Firefox has produced recently is to restart after a
shutdown with a list of the last 'n' URLs accessed along the top - with
any non-local reference refuses to open. Delete the lot and FF
immediately shuts down, but at least after that it can be started with
your default home page showing.

My main browser is now Brave, which by and large does just what you
expect.







Another feature of Brave that I like is certain statistics it presents
with the opening of each new tab. It's a setting which you can select
or not, but I like seeing it. Having used Brave for a month or so now,
these are the stats:

31,616 Trackers & ads blocked 1.39GB Bandwidth saved 27minutes Time
saved

Why use Google or Firefox any more?

I do have a couple of beefs with Brave:

- my current version, 1.18.78 has taken to pop up a white
'Auto play media - Block|Allow' message at the top of the screen.
This appears in YouTube pages and on sites, such as my gliding club,
which shows a timelapse sequence of the airfield. I find it irritatng
because so far its always triggered by images I want to see and it
can't be disabled or be given a list of URLs that it shouldn't trigger
on.

- more annoying is the fact that, although it can be set as the default
browser it seems to be unable to fully reclaim this setting after either
Firefox has been temporarily given it and then switched back to
Brave.

However apart from the 'Auto play' thing, I like it a lot.


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