update-manager --no-focus-on-map ??

[rikona]

Hello Petter,

Saturday, January 2, 2016, 11:38:06 PM, Petter wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:44:36 -0800
> rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi, Rikona.

>> > Well, another question. I don't use Opera myself, except for some
>> > legacy copies of 12 for one specific function. Is it 32-bit or
>> > 64-bit?  
>> 
>> I run 12 which seems to be the latest one for Ubuntu/linux.

> It isn't.

So I see! I often clicked 'check for updates' and it always told me I
have the latest version. At one point, back some time ago, I checked
the web site and IIRC it said 12 was the last linux version. I
believed it and didn't think of checking more extensively.

> I use Opera a lot myself, and the version I've got is
> 34.0. There is also a beta available, for 36.0. At the moment I've
> got 10 windows open, with probably 10 tabs in each. Opera takes up
> about 1.2GB of memory at the moment and is blazingly fast, even with
> all these tabs.

It seems the new opera is better re mem usage.

> Add the following to your sources if you want the latest stable version:

> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free

> The package is called opera-stable. Opera's web page says to use a
> different repo for the beta version, but there is a package for it
> in this one too. No idea if it is the latest. This series of Opera
> uses a different rendering engine than 12, if that is important to
> you.

That is a possible issue - I don't trust google as far as I can throw
their main building. Haven't been able to understand the true privacy
risk re their 'engine' used in the new opera.

>> > What addons are you using? In Firefox and to a lesser extent Chrome,
>> > AdBlock+ can cause drastic RAM bloat. µBlock is slightly better.  
>> 
>> I use AdBlock and Ghostery.

> I use Adblock Plus, Ghostery, LastPass and NoScript Lite with Opera,
> but it's still fast with reasonable memory usage.

>> > I use Chrome for Web2 type stuff, intensive AJAX apps, such as
>> > Gmail, Gcalendar, Gcontacts, G+ etc.  
>> 
>> I'm a bit of a privacy nut, so I avoid Google as much as possible. :-)

> You're not alone ;-)

Do you know what privacy issues result from using the chrome engine in
opera?

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 rikona