XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox
On 6/18/2024 10:56 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:29:21 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy
Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this
in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to
tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to
get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not
seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve
accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments
or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF.
I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in,
but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I
reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
So I think this is all one has to do, plus one has to remember how to
get to one's profile for the account features you mention. Because if
you google google login for example, it will point you to
accounts.google.com, which no longer works. I'm not good at
remembering things (that's why I got a computer) but one only has to
change accounts to myaccount and then it works.
So thanks for the help. It worked. When I speculated that the box had
no url, clearly I was wrong.
If you do have a google account, and all you want to stop is the popup
asking you to sign-in with google, they you want ABP, or uBO enabled,
presume you know how to get to the "My filters" tab and add the line I
originally showed?
It's been one more day (more than 2 total) and I have not seen the
Google login box in the laptop, runing win10 HOME, but on the desktop
running win10 PRO, which I had not modified, I did get a google login
box when I went to reddit.com.
I'd like to get rid of it there too, but when I went to the HOSTS file
and opened it, a box said that the file is Read Only, and I'd have to
turn off read only, and even after I did that, I'd have to save the file under a different name or first close the application (Windows) that has
the file open. Aha, I had not yet done what I had to do in win`10
Home, check Run as Administrator in the Advanced section of the EditPad
Lite home page icon. Once I did that, it said nothing to me about it
being Read Only. Using File Explorer, or whatever comes with win10, I
see that it's NOT read only, even though it told me that a few minutes
ago. What's going on?
However reloading the reddit.com page and didn't bring up the gooogle
login box. Could that be because it was the second time in a row I
loaded that page, or is it gone for good.
Another windows question, now that win10 has been added here:
BTW, this is one of the reasons I dread getting a new computer. I can reinstall all my programs and copy over all what is found in data directories, but it won't included the HOSTS file, will it? I have to remember to do that separately. Is there a list that others have
compiled of miscellaneous places I should look to find changes I made to windows that I will want to transfer to a new computer?
Another thing is the setting I changed to delay the v. small
mini-windows from popping up above the taskbar, corresponding to where
the cursor is. I find them annoying and of no use, and I got rid of
them by increasing the time it take for them to popup, but I don't
remember where or how I did it.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
My machine reports that I don't have permission to save over top of "hosts". The file really should be upper-case, for fun, like before. It was HOSTS
on WinXP.
The Administrator and SYSTEM have Full Control, the Users have
Read and Read&Execute set. This could result in a message related
to those two ticky boxes. You're seeing a side effect of
"only having Read and Read&Execute" as your capability as a User.
This information is in the Security Tab. You should really
look in there sometime -- yes, it's gobbledygook but you can
correlate an error message, to what you find in there.
This is not the same thing as the box labeled Read-Only, which is
a modifier for folders. Generally speaking, in the Fisher Price
sense, don't stare at the Read-only box, when you could be fiddling
with the security tab instead.
The Security tab is the thing you want to look at, when debugging
silly stuff like this.
OK, how can we "succeed" ? Now that we've seen our limited User permissions.
1) Open Administrator terminal.
2) CD to the folder containing the file.
cd /d C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
or the alternative is
C:
cd \
cd Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3) notepad hosts
4) Edit and save
5) Close administrator terminal when finished.
By attacking using the Full Control the Administrator has,
we get the job done.
*******
Yes, the balloon popups have a timer, and it is a single
registry setting. That's a "Task Bar Thumbnail" at a guess.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/21005-change-delay-time-show-taskbar-thumbnails-windows-10-a.html
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
ExtendedUIHoverTime DWORD32 milliseconds
The default value of 100 milliseconds, is 100 * 0.001 = 0.1 seconds
*******
When you clean a browser, the Google login box comes back.
It is either remembered as a cookie, or it could be webappsstore.sqlite.
There are also the "+++" entries. Using Agent Ransack, you're
allowed to look for "+++" three characters, as long as you
have not selected Regular Expression mode for the search.
Using Private Mode browsing, could bring the Google Login box back.
Once Google sets a cookie, it should be moderately happy.
*******
To transfer materials in an intelligent fashion from one
OS to another, costs money. Whereas your hobbyist methods
cost nothing :-)
On Linux, your /home/micky folder contains a lot of goodies,
but any time a "new scheme" comes along, it might require
more trash be added to the folder. I don't know if they have
migration logic. You could move /home/micky to another disk
drive for example, and hook it up to the OS. The division
is a bit cleaner than Windows, except when something
needs to be migrated to a newer API.
Windows has Migration Logic when you insert the Win10 DVD
and run Setup.exe off it, while sitting at your Windows 7 computer.
That "installs over top" and it tries to keep your applications
and your settings. Naturally, settings related to the OS, they
can play table-tennis with those if they want. For example, if
your Task Bar is two rows high, and the new OS only supports
a one-row Task Bar, then boo-hoo-for-you :-)
But if you have Windows 7 on Machine #1 and want to keep the
config and have Windows 10 with it, on Machine #2, that
would be tricky. Third party software will attempt to migrate
the Win7 personalization, to another machine for you, but
* you pay for each transfer session $50 * . You don't own the
software, you're renting it. It's a dreadful pricing scheme.
I suppose you know you can move W10 from one machine to another.
That's a degree of freedom. The disadvantage, is it does not
work like Windows 2000. In Win2K, you could define "New Profile",
then shut down the computer. When the disk drive booted on
the new machine, the hardware enumeration would be stored in
the new profile. This meant, moving could be kept "clean",
and perhaps your old video card would be forgotten, and
you'd install a new driver or such.
With moving W10 from one machine to another, you end up with
an AMD video driver and an NVidia video driver. The machine
still works, but there's a certain amount of "clutter" in it.
A Repair install could clean it out. See ? Fun. And the
fun works, as long as you had the presence of mind to take
advantage of the free upgrade, while you could do it, so
all the capable machines were already activated for W10.
Then you could move a cherished setup W10 to another machine.
Doing a Repair install which "keeps Programs and User Settings",
cleans up the cruft.
Paul
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