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Re: [Phys-l] Rude? Other mail options



At 11:49 -0800 1/22/08, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

Thanks, however, I'm suspicious of Google because of their relationship w/ the Chinese govt.

A justified suspicion. But they seem to be at least in part making up for it with their current large investment in renewable energy. If they keep a good relationship with the Chinese gov't, that august group might take a page from Google's book (pun only half intended) and check their headlong rush to cover the earth with coal dust.

Furthermore, I'd rather have storage on my computer instead of an external server.

Agree here, too. If something goes wrong with my computer, I have only myself to blame. If they loose my history from some server, run by some faceless, nameless IT geek in West Irian, or Goa, or wherever, then I don't even have anyone to blame.

I understand Firefox and Netscape are Mozilla based, which might make the transition easier.
Safari appears to not keep history long. My Netscape history is back to 2004, and, yes, I've referred to it back several years. Bookmarks are equivalently extensive.

That's true, and referring back to it is a bit cumbersome, especially if you look at a large number of sites a day, as I often do. But it does have a feature that I really like. I don't know whether other browsers have this (I suspect they do, but I haven't checked), but when I have a whole lot of sites to look at, put them on tabs (such as when I might want to check out all the links embedded in a article I just accessed), Safari lets me save those tabs en masse to a separate bookmark file, and then recover them en masse to the tab bar later. Then, when I have gone through them later, I can either delete them selectively, delete them all, or keep all of them. Now, once I have collected a bunch of tabs, I save them before I go on, so that if Safari crashes, or the computer crashes, I can recover them easily. I learned this the hard way (which seems to be the normal way--I recall from my Navy days the old adage that "the safety rules are written in blood").

Hugh
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