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>8 year old laptop valued at $3000 One has to wonder, how much did it cost new?
He probably meant that it costed him $3k when he bought it.
That's not what he said though. Words matter and lying is not okay.
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
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Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
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Huh, that's curious. I'm running 69.0.2 on Ubuntu and it works just fine here. browser.urlbar.filter.javascript is set to its default of true, I didn't touch that (or any other related settings as far as I remember). Sorry, in that case I'm out of ideas as well. Edit: Also works in a completely clean and new profile for me without any settings or addons whatsoever. Strange.
>I'm running 69.0.2 on Ubuntu and it works just fine here. Thanks for your help. I just tried another test and installed the latest Firefox 70.0 on a clean Windows 7 machine and it does not work there either. I also tried Ubuntu 19.04 with Firefox 69.0.2 and it does not work there either. To be clear, pasting the javascript in a console tab of Developer Tools always works. It's only the url bar that seems to ignore j…
URL bar doesn't work for me either but saving it as a bookmark does. Here's a quick recording: https://cdn.baltpeter.io/tmp/firefox-bookmarklet.gif
Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
He probably meant that it costed him $3k when he bought it.
That's not what he said though. Words matter and lying is not okay.
If you go off the prices that are available today which have been consistent for the past ten years it is obvious that $3000 was the purchase price or in the ball-park number.
He wasn't lying, you're just hyper focused on the price of a known product.
Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
#24I wonder if this happens on other platforms too... I know that at least libreoffice on linux scans your files for some odd reason...
Dropbox did the same on ubuntu
Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
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That is Macbook's issue though, no software should be able to damage the hardware, no matter what it does, unless there is a hardware flaw.
An update fried wi-fi on my iPhone 4S. Sometimes physical reality interferes with expectations and idealizations.
or Rowhammer
Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
#26I wonder if this happens on other platforms too... I know that at least libreoffice on linux scans your files for some odd reason...
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, I just want to read about something this bad I can't find anything.
About a year ago I enabled apparmor with a bunch of additional rules and noticed some odd denied file read attempts.
I asked around and people blamed it on some Java or pgp stuff. No idea if it's still in there, I can't see it anymore but I also may have disabled all libreoffice plugins.
Re: Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
#27Unfortunately, that Chrome scanning utility overheated my 2011 Macbook Pro and killed its graphics card. When the Chrome scan ran, it pegged the cpu at 100% and caused the fans to spin up to a very loud full throttle. However, the Macbook couldn't prevent the runaway overheating (the blue screen of striped lines from the death of AMD graphics card). Yes, the Macbooks from 2011 are notorious for having bad cooling des…
How did you have an exe running on a Mac?