![]() ![]() The bottom line for me is that I consider all the Big Tech companies at this point to be the enemy of the users. For Brave, I use it's internal site settings and shields. I ALSO run my browsers with javascript off unless I approve a site. Also, even though Windows 7 is accumulating some unpatched bugs, it is also becoming less and less of a target over time. Considering that they're patching 100 or more things each month, and are breaking a few more, that tells me that the internals of Windows 10 may not be more secure. I'm not so sure that Windows 10 is more secure, especially while Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender are being updated. Just lost several paragraphs I had already typed due to copy and paste screw ups. I continue below with comments on that and a few other things. I decided to give that topic a thread of its own so as to not hijack the other thread too had stated in the other thread how much more secure Windows 10 would be than Windows 7. (Yes, it's the new version MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe is no longer extant.Replies to some of my comments drifted into a discussion of the pros and cons of Windows 10. ![]() What is interesting, in setting anything green for legacy stuff in O&O, the new version Edge still thinks it's managed. Setting them all to red returned Edge to unmanaged. I was correct in assessing it was O&O ShutUp where I had all settings toggled green under both new version Edge and legacy Edge. Settings are flagged with a little padlock and an info button: "This setting is turned off for managed browsers." I noted this "Your browser is managed by your organization" notification and as a result I could not set, for example, "Use secure DNS." to get me some nice DoH. But I dismissed that and used "About Microsoft Edge" to take care of it. Initially, there was a message that Edge needed to re-installed (!) where clicking the button took me to the Get Edge home page. Since I've got msedge.exe and microsoftedgeupdate.exe outbounds blocked in the firewall I allowed 'em temporarily to get an Edge update squared away. It's been a long while since I checked in on Edge and I wanted to see if there was anything worthwhile since then. ![]()
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