I'm trying out the Brave browser

I put on Microsoft's Edge for the first time in ages, the tab/page brings up a page of little video adverts, Thousands of 'em! And you can't change it!

Although I did disable the 'load new tab page in background' settings, oddly enough I'd rather spend my bandwidth download what I want*, not adverts for the Daily m*il.


* looking at the Daily M*il sidebar of shame.



Oh, apparently you can, https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/change-home-page-microsoft-edge

I had to install an extension to Chromium to make it show a blank tab when I opened a new tab.

I'm getting big black squares overlaying some pages in Firefox. It's particularly bad near animated GIFs, Wendi's signature animation is a frequent example.

I think it must be some hardware acceleration thing but I haven't got anywhere yet by fiddling with the config settings.

This problem seems to have stopped happening. Trouble is I can't remember which was the last config setting that I tinkered with.

Is there an option to return to default settings?

I can't do that, I'd lose all my other custom settings.

I'm giving LibreWolf a proper try out, today. It seems to be very smooth.

I've not got those black shapes again. But, Google Maps won't offer me 3D view. It depends on the same setting being the opposite.

Weirdly, when I was hunting down distance signs for the Signpost extravaganza thread, I noticed that 3D view was back.

Does that mean the black shapes will now return?

Would a burst of cookie-clearing help in such a situation?

I've noticed that, with Brave, when you select a section of text on a website for copying and pasting purposes and then right-click, one of the options that appears says, "Leo AI Tools."

I wonder what it does?

I'm about to try it and see.

Some sort of virtual assistant chatbot thing appears.

It can analyse and summarise the contents of the page.

Apparently, it can suggest improvements.