Subj : Re: The Chromebook To : Rob Swindell From : Ed Vance Date : Sat Jan 04 2020 21:25:00 01-03-20 13:07 Rob Swindell wrote to Ed Vance about The Chromebook Howdy! Rob, RS> @MSGID: <5E0FD5EE.1959.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net> RS> @REPLY: <5E0F6573.1958.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net> RS> Re: The Chromebook RS> By: Ed Vance to All on Fri Jan 03 2020 10:58 am > Howdy! > > A Chromebook user told me I should get one. -snip- > My question is: If I had created an Account on the Chromebook would there > be any thing (Programs, etc.) on the screen after I Logged on the Account? RS> Yes. The window manager / user interface is the browser (and its RS> "apps"). You can also run Linux and Android apps on Chromebooks if RS> you're interested in that kind of thing. So am I correct, the Chrome Browser is the only Program included with the Chrome O/S? RS> They work pretty well in general (long battery life, boot fast, RS> stable), but I haven't seen one yet with a high quality display. Also, RS> you're (by default, anyway) trapped in the Google walled-garden. On this XP pc I use Firefox with the NoScript Add-On and most websites I visit the NoScript dropdown list has Google this, Google that etc.... Google: Analytics, Gstatic and many others that want my TEMPORARILY OK when I visit the pages. So I live in the Google walled-garden when I'm on the internet. I'm not so sure about ALLOWING all of those Google thingy's instead of selecting Temporarily Allow on the sites I visit. It would take less time for a page to load if those Google Thingy's were marked Allow in NoScript. What do You do? And there is DOUBLECLICK always asking permission, but I don't do that. I've been thinking about marking JQuery, Cloudflare and a few others as ALLOWED in NoScript. There are others I need to read up about to see if they too need to be ALLOWED also. Bootstrap maybe? Is there a Chrome O/S Emulator for Windows where I could run it on a "Live CD"? I could play some with some of the things my Chromebook Friend uses and be more knowledgeable talking to him about his computer. 73 de Ed W9ODR . . .... Every day is a fresh start; a new chance to mess it up. --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .