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I stopped using FireFox because it has so much overhead it slows down and stops responding....slow!

I started using GOOGLE CHROME instead. Much much faster.

 

However, GC has overlay issues with the OGRR website. When I start OGRR from GC, on the homepage, the drop-down forum sites are blocked by the center video that is on top of the pull-downs.

 

The pull-downs SHOULD always reside on TOP.

 

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Hey Alan,

 

I have been using GC for last three months, since I bought a new home PC, and have not had any of the problems you describe.  I am on the OGR online forum quite a bit and have not had any problems with GC there or any other sites.  You might want to check your settings for GC and make sure that everything is set-up to your liking.  Click on the little wrench in the upper right hand corner and take a look at your settings.

 

Jim

Firefox is slow? Since when? I use Firefox and it is lightning fast for me. Has been for years.

 

As for Google Chrome, it is indeed fast...a little faster than Firefox. I used it for a while, until I learned a little more about it. What I learned was that the Google Chrome browser tracks every web site you visit and sends that information back to Google. This happens in the background, and you never know it. That was enough for me. No more Chrome...no matter how fast it might be. I'm back with Firefox and will stay with it.

 

Alan, if Firefox was running slow, AND Google Chrome doesn't work right, I think you need a Java update. Google Chrome did NOT behave the way yours is on my machine.

 

This site uses a lot of Javascript. Update your Java and I think you'll find these issues go away.

Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:

 

 

As for Google Chrome, it is indeed fast...a little faster than Firefox. I used it for a while, until I learned a little more about it. What I learned was that the Google Chrome browser tracks every web site you visit and sends that information back to Google. This happens in the background, and you never know it. That was enough for me. No more Chrome...no matter how fast it might be. I'm back with Firefox and will stay with it.

 

 

95% of websites do this,even this one to a degree. 

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Originally Posted by KevinB:

95% of websites do this,even this one to a degree. 

THIS SITE DOES NOT SET TRACKING COOKIES! We use cookies to save login information, so you don't have to enter your user name and password every time you visit. There is a huge difference between that and a tracking cookie.


As for other sites, some do set tracking cookies, but only if you let them! I don't allow web sites to set cookies on my computer unless absolutely necessary for login information, etc. I have a choice as to whether I will allow a given web site to set cookies on my machine.

 

With Google Chrome you have NO CHOICE. And it is not just a single WEB SITE that is doing the tracking of visits to their own site. With Google Chrome it is the BROWSER ITSELF doing the tracking. And it is tracking and logging EVERY SITE you visit.

 

Sorry...that is way too much of an invasion of my privacy to tolerate.

Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:
Originally Posted by KevinB:

95% of websites do this,even this one to a degree. 

THIS SITE DOES NOT SET TRACKING COOKIES! We use cookies to save login information, so you don't have to enter your user name and password every time you visit. There is a huge difference between that and a tracking cookie.


As for other sites, some do set tracking cookies, but only if you let them! I don't allow web sites to set cookies on my computer unless absolutely necessary for login information, etc. I have a choice as to whether I will allow a given web site to set cookies on my machine.

 

With Google Chrome you have NO CHOICE. And it is not just a single WEB SITE that is doing the tracking of visits to their own site. With Google Chrome it is the BROWSER ITSELF doing the tracking. And it is tracking and logging EVERY SITE you visit.

 

Sorry...that is way too much of an invasion of my privacy to tolerate.

It's perfectly understandable and most would probably feel a bit uncomfortable with that,and your right Hoopla currently wont plant a tracking cookie but it does store alot of your information.

 

 

 

 

"When you sign up for any account or service operated by Social Strata, we store all information that you provide to us. This may include personal information like email addresses, your name, passwords, phone numbers, birth date, gender, and address information. For services that require payment, we also collect credit card information, which is stored in encrypted form on secure servers, including PCI-compliant third-party vendors. Once you register and sign in to one of our services, you are not anonymous to us. In addition, we collect and store information based on the services that you are using. For instance, we may store the names of communities that you join, the people that you mark as your buddies, content that you watch, etc."

 

 

 

"Visit Information Via Server Logs

Social Strata records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and page request."

 

 

 

They do just about everything google does except they don't follow you when you leave, but everything before that is logged and stored forever.

Kevin, you are missing my point. Literally EVERY web site where you have to log in with a user name and password stores the information listed above. It could be here, Amazon.com, your favorite hobby shop's web store...ANY SITE where you have to establish an account in order to log in or purchase something, will store the information you showed above. They have to...that's how the site knows whether you have an account or not!

 

Social Strata tracks pages visited HERE, within this ONE web site, in order to evaluate server loads and properly allocate resources to keep server performance where it should be. Again, there is nothing unusual about that.

 

All that has absolutely nothing to do with a TRACKING COOKIE! A Tracking Cookie is a tiny program on your computer that reports the web address of EVERY WEB PAGE YOU VISIT back to headquarters, in this case, Google. Every time you click a web page here, every time you visit any of your other favorite web sites, the web addresses for those sites are being reported back to Google, along with your IP address, etc. And you cannot prevent that from happening, as you can with other browsers.

 

That is totally different from simply storing login and account information in order to validate your account with a web server.

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