/g/ - Technology

some of these are really optional:

Override the useragent to most common useragent (not needed with UA Switcher):

New > string: general.useragent.override =>

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

Force installation of non-updated add-ons:

New > boolean: extensions.checkCompatibility.[version #] => false

Override location bar search (pick only one):

keyword.url => "https://ixquick.com/html/?q="

Increase the amount of connections/requests Firefox will make:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 60

network.http.max-connections => 500

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server => 30

Speed up the security delay when installing add-ons:

security.dialog_enable_delay => 500

changing how your browser stores cache (if at all) and uses ram instead (but less ram overall) as a result.

you use less memory, but pages take a tiny bit longer to load. not easy to notice on more powerful computers.

my computer isn't very powerful and I don't notice any difference and in fact it feels faster.

browser.cache.memory.enable FALSE

network.http.use-cache FALSE

browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size 0

browser.cache.memory.disk FALSE

browser.cache.disk.capacity 0

browser.cache.disk.enable FALSE

browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit 1 (just in case 0 might mean unlimited)

browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled FALSE

browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run FALSE

browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max FALSE

browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value 0

browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl FALSE

browser.cache.offline.capacity 0

browser.cache.offline.enable FALSE

don't forget to bookmark "about:memory" so that you can click the "minimize memory usage button" it can really help alot.

maybe useful in a tor browser setup, (accidentally clicked bad things never hits your disk):

browser.cache.disk.parent_directory=/tmp/ffcache and put /tmp/ in ram.

(there is no guaranteed way of making this work and often doesn't work for anyone, so its considered broken unless you can figure it out)

dom.storage.default_quota 0 (1kB is ample to track so disabled completely *zero* is better)

dom.storage.enabled FALSE

Disable pings:

browser.send_pings FALSE

browser.send_pings.require_same_host TRUE (extra layer of protection)

Disable suggestions on searchbar:

browser.search.suggest.enabled FALSE

Disable keywords:

keyword.enabled FALSE

browser.ssl_override_behavior => 2

Disable DNS proxy bypass:

network.proxy.socks_remote_dns TRUE

true would Have the proxy server perform DNS lookups

false would Perform DNS lookups on the client (this is what you don't want)

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.proxy.socks_remote_dns

https://www.browserleaks.com/

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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type google in about : cnfg and delete most of the links (the ones that wont break anything, thats up to you)

also search through these to delete HUGE amounts of links from.

browser.contentHandlers

browser.safebrowsing

browser.search

gecko.handlerService

geo.wifi.uri

///////////////////////////////

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.search.update FALSE

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.search.selectedEngine FALSE

browser.search.useDBForOrder FALSE

browser.search.update.interval (set to ZERO )

browser.search.searchEnginesURL ERASE URL

gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost FALSE

(adblock edge filter list links to add into ABE)

http://spam404bl.com/spam404scamlist.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy+easylist.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/sw_aio.txt

http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/nm_easyprivacy.txt

http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/nm_easylist.txt

http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=adblockplus&mimetype=plaintext

https://www.fanboy.co.nz/r/fanboy-ultimate.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/malwaredomains_full.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt

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you could possibly use FEBE to save everything (depending on how you do it to avoid ruining the settings of Tor) and send your extensions to the Tor Browser

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

type v

browser.safebrowsing

and set all to false (be careful) and delete all links to websites (be careful)

datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun DISABLE IT

datareporting.sessions.current.clean DISABLE IT

toolkit.telemetry.enabled DISABLE IT

geo.wifi.uri; DELETE LINK in fact, search google and delete and disable any options or links, except if its part of an exception because those rulesets may be more complicated, and some of these mention google to block it, for example if you have google set as untrusted in noscript, it will mention it.

browser.search.suggest.enabled DISABLE IT

media.peerconnection.enabled DISABLE IT

geo.enabled DISABLE IT

toolkit.telemetry.infoURL (delete url)

toolkit.telemetry.server (delete url)

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network.websocket.enabled FALSE these two might make some pages breaks

network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer FALSE

----------------------

privacy.trackingprotection.enabled ( not in use yet? yet original

blocklist based on DISCONNECT FF ADDON made by ex-google employees!!)

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled FALSE

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.enabled FALSE

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled FALSE

typing in "safebrowsing" will show many options

(media.eme.enabled

media.gmp-eme-adobe.enabled

search adobe and disable these, might break flash, but why are you using flash!!!)

loop.enabled FALSE

extensions.blocklist.enabled FALSE

(delete all these links after searching "extensions.blocklist",

or firefox sends data without permission, beware:

its up to you to not install unsafe addons from unsafe places now.)

network.http.speculative-parallel-limit (SET TO ZERO)

disable your live bookmarks, only use ordinary bookmarks.

browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl (delete the url)

browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone (set the value to ignore)

extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled FALSE

(search these

telemetry

healthreport

crash

report "report" alone has many URLS

dom.ipc.plugins.flash.subprocess.crashreporter.enabled FALSE

toolkit.crashreporter.infoURL DELETE URL

breakpad.reportURL; DELETE URL

toolkit.crashreporter.infoURL DELETE URL )

browser.pocket.enabled DISABLE

webgl.disabled TRUE

dom.server-events.enabled FALSE

media.peerconnection.enabled FALSE

media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers FALSE

media.peerconnection.video.enabled FALSE

media.navigator.enabled FALSE

media.navigator.video.enabled FALSE

media.navigator.permission.disabled TRUE

dwhelper.social-share.service.facebook.enabled FALSE

also search "facebook" and delete all the links unless mentioned in an extensions prefs

facebook will be mentioned if you block facebook in noscript.

social.manifest.facebook ERASE and leave blank

social.remote-install.enabled FALSE

social.whitelist ERASE and leave blank

media.autoplay.enabled FALSE

media.audio_data.enabled FALSE

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noscript does have a few google things inside of it so

noscript.ABE.wanIp FALSE

noscript.ABE.wanIpCheckURL https://secure.informaction.com/ipecho/ (delete this)

go to about:config and search "google" and try to delete every url you can and disable everything google related that you can while trying not to break anything.'

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these other links may contain some very useful tips, but beware as there may be alot of bad things hidden inside as well. always be careful anywhere and everywhere.

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/06/15/guide-anonymity-and-privacy-for-advanced-linux-users/

https://www.bestvpn.com/the-ultimate-privacy-guide/

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/180485-the-ultimate-guide-to-staying-anonymous-and-protecting-your-privacy-online

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

https://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security

https://ssd.eff.org/en/index

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Firefox_about:config_edits

http://www.comtek4u.com/content/2015/08/18/comprehensive-list-firefox-privacy-and-security-settings

https://gitgud.io/LemonSquare/All-in-one-Internet-Privacy_PC-Security-Guide

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

https://prism-break.org/en/

https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/

and now the redpill

Hello and welcome…I'm going to make things very clear. lets begin briefly, shall we? the wonderful shills have ensured that mint's been talked about as attempt to entrap exodus newbies running from windows into settling for another false sense of safety, privacy, and security. These excellent shills are pretending to settle for and install freedom-disrespecting, proprietary mint as well as recommending it in every thread to trick people desperate to switch their OS away from windows.

>"hey look guis, look at me pls, oh…well…! I will just use mint because it's my only option… ;^)" It is a cheap and common "lemmings over a cliff" style disinformation tactic used to win over people's helpless, FOOLISH minds, and it works surprisingly well… I presume you are all aware of systemd, Correct? It has been made quite sure that the stupid general public believes it's just another pointless thing whiners complain about needlessly… But in reality, systemd effects all Linux OS users!

isn't that great? systemd is an infectious, insidious, and diseased bloated blob plague of systemically parasitic, hypocritical, self-contradictory, purpose-defeating, pretentious, freedom betraying software that its creators daringly pulled off as an init-system! systemd takes away from it's users the freedom of choice and severely limits the control users have over their own computer. systemd is so restrictive and authoritarian to the point that it more than figuratively rapes your whole Operating System.

>user makes the choice to remove systemd and use a different init-system

>countless packages and programs that existed long before systemd and never required systemd to function are now somehow all tangled in an evil, sticky, and obnoxious web of unnecessary forced artificial false dependencies interconnecting throughout the entire OS

>any attempts to regain control rips out half the OS along with everything useful

>OS is now a dead husk

SysTemD is an STD

quite evil yes? excellently evil...

Finally as the plan comes together, we have micro$oft releasing it's own linux os, as if enough people didn't find them overwhelmingly abhorrent enough, to the point that unfathomably massive groups of people (who didn't participate in any surveys or statistic gathering) became refugees and migrated to other video game consoles and operating systems after only xbox one what a wonderful nightmare that was… and now again at the release of windows 10 "walking dollar sign to parasitize private data off of, I MEAN CUSTOMER who we care 10 quacks about-edition"

http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2260199/virtualization/microsoft-stuns-linux-world--submits-source-code-for-kernel.html

http://www.mslinux.org/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-conspiracy

http://itsfoss.com/canonical-microsoft-buyout/

>We all know that Microsoft has ‘created’ its own Linux

>Microsoft chose Ubuntu for the deployment of its big data Hadoop-on-Azure service, HDInsight.

>Microsoft has also been working with Canonical on LXD, a Linux container project.

which brings me to my final point, my great revelation of the plot against freedom itself.

WINDOWS, MINT, AND SYSTEMD ARE ALL CONNECTED!

How would anyone have ever guessed this ingeniously designed plot!? You are all drooling fools!

I will make it easy for a stupid "person" to understand.

>windows 10 released

>ignorant uninformed people keep using it, even though it steals your wifi and social networking passwords

>smarter yet still a multitude of levels more stupid than I, freedom seeking people attempt to flee this evils grasp and beg for knowledge online to the best of their pathetic ability

>mint and ubuntu shills pop up and fool a percentage of them promising ease of use

>meanwhile other shills scare them away from linux entirely by throwing noobs right into the grinder "installll gentoooo, installlll archhhh, installlllll fedoraaaa, installllll redhattt"

>meanwhile yet again, systemd spreads through linux like a virulent plague, infecting and un-freedoming multiple linux distrobutions, forcing users to run around trying to remove it or find another distro with no systemd. So I Welcome you all… to the NSA/Prism hotel where there is a Mint under every pillow and a pervert voyeur looking through your Windows.

You can check in but you can't check out, so enjoy your stay because you are never getting out! -√¿#΅ςγζτεηη–εггôř΅∞8∞8∞8∞8

you can check out, the ticket is truth. may it set you free, now run!

So I'm going to give you a bunch of really good information because I care alot. If you really want good out of your firefox browser, consider this. don't use firefox. It's just as bad as windows/google. Use a fork, and the addons: noscript, request policy, https everywhere. Don't ever use facebook. Use FOSS Linux OS with no systemd like Devuan because a good browser means nothing if your OS is junk. The best search engine for now is Ixquick.com The best firefox fork with freedom and privacy as its philosophy is GNU Icecat, which actively removes bad "features". (you may need to reenable hardware acceleration if its slow for you ) Don't use download mirrors you don't trust. If you don't like gnu icecat simply try to use almost any fork of firefox and make several changes to about:config as described in the instructions. and don't use ublock, umatrix because they are botnets like disconnect,duckduckgo,ghostery,adblockplus being shilled as an agenda to undermine,destroy,replace actual good addons Specifically: httpseverywhere, requestpolicy, noscript, AdblockEdge.

beware the shills that will attack this

I warned you all way before, but now adblock edge is dead. mint's also been recently shilled as attempt to entrap exodus newbies running from windows into settling for another false sense of safety but it has been a major failure for the shills. There was a huge amount of ublock shilling before and immediately after adblock edge was discontinued, praising ublock in its description. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?src=search

>Reason: Discontinued in favor of Ublock Origin, a general purpose blocker, that not only outperforms Adblock Edge but is also available on other browsers and, of course, without "Acceptable Ads Whitelist". This page will be kept for archival purposes. You can still contact me on GitHub or Bitbucket as Adstomper. http://adstomper.bitbucket.org/

>No sponsored Ads

>KISS Philosophy

>Transparent

I can has bribe?

another addon that has been shilled a huge amount on 8chan is disconnect:

>disconnect

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/

>About this Add-on Disconnect, named one of the 100 best innovations of the year by

Popular Science

and one of the 20 best Firefox add-ons by

Lifehacker

lets you visualize and block the otherwise invisible websites that track your search and browsing history.

>Our privacy policy, in a sentence: We don't collect your IP address or any other personal info

>except the info you volunteer.

>wall street journal

>CNN

>The new york times

>60 Minutes

>Forbes

https://disconnect.me

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/disconnect-me-raise/

https://gigaom.com/2013/04/15/ex-googler-releases-big-update-to-disconnect-a-data-blocking-tool/

>Launched in 2010 by a

former Google engineer

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/03/24/ex-google-staff-working-to-disconnect-surfers-from-data-tracking/

https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#web-browser-addons

Another thing to note is that systemd is four-hundred-twenty-five-THOUSAND lines of code for just an init system. systemd is a plot to windows-ize linux and ruin it for everyone who loves freedom. systemd is being shoved down everyone's throats. systemd is massive for an init system. systemd is bloat. systemd is a Linux kernel coup attempt. Systemd tries to incorporate way too much. Many previously isolated components are all carelessly blobbed together which not only widens the angle of attack but also makes the system as a whole less reliable, because one small error and whole system goes down HARD.

Systemd is being pushed by obviously malicious people. Consider the following: The reason developers have decided to depend on systemd is stated to be that it solves problems with device management, for example. However, several tens of thousands of people have worked for decades without addressing or even mentioning the existence of such a problem. if the problem existed, it would have been mentioned. If the problem existed, people would have worked on it. Mentioning a problem costs literally nothing and would have been effectively mandatory in dev mailing lists and ircs e.g. when discussing a specific implementation, interface, or approach taken or to be taken by a project. The systemd-backing people almost exclusively use emotions-based arguments to support systemd: "The only other option was sysvinit! If you don't like systemd, you're a sysvinit fanatic! The only people who oppose us are the men in the linux community that have a deep hatred for women!"

The project is strongly endorsed by various feminist groups that have nothing to do with technology. The system is headed by a developer reputed for making low-quality software. If literally any other piece of software had the kind of bugs described in the various systemd issue trackers, they wouldn't even be accepted in distro repos, yet systemd has been widely adopted in a matter of months, breaking compatibility and not offering upgrade paths even on the likes of strong server OSs like debian or centos. SELinux - a NSA project - developers are strongly for systemd, nevermind the numerous bugs and undoubtedly numerous security vulnerabilities. Speaking of, there has been NO audit of systemd even though everyone is accepting systemd no matter how security-sensitive the distro is meant to be. It's pretty evident that something is really wrong with systemd's adoption. basically the bastards who want to enslave the world decided that the best way to control opensource is to create their own and promote it until it's the standard even though it shouldn't be.

new people would fall for it and the more knowledgeable are facing a lack of support for their alternatives. The project to create an all-encompassing system that can be easily infiltrated by, at will to provide root access and spy on arbitrary non-backdoored systems is being funded by, and is being promoted by the, global elite across the entire community. It's clear that the adoption of systemd is not normal and there's something hiding behind it. Nobody has ever been specific about what kind of problem systemd solves, nobody has ever even mentioned having a problem before systemd appeared, and suddenly it spreads like wildfire.

systemd's design is flawed intentionally to increase its attack vector and make it vulnerable for outside attackers to break it more easily. There is a reason why systemd is pushed by Red hat, an American company with very close ties to the N$@. Red hat controls Fedora, so Fedora adopted it first, then Red hat enterprise linux and because Red hat funds most of debian, they also caved in. Basically all of the major distros are controlled by Red hat one way or another. Everyone hates Gnome, yet it is still here, why you ask…… it is Red hat. Red Hat wants control of Linux. Anyone who opposes systemd is in the way of them controlling Linux. They will do whatever they can to make sure that Gentoo, Slackware, Void, and Alpine have the worst time possible by not solely supporting systemd. After red hat fully takes control with systemd, there is no need for different distros, because basically they will be all the same but with a different logo.

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://judecnelson.blogspot.mx/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html

http://devuan.org/

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation

also if you are running linux, remove EVERYTHING that says zeitgeist whether you use synaptic or any other manager.

That's it. guide done.

I like you.

Mint is pretty good tbh particularly for new users. It just works.

>still using firfox after brogate

>>3558

That's why the guide says to use a firefox FORK.

not vanilla FF

firefox (after heavy modification) is the current best browser around right now. (to the best of most /tech/'s autism anons knowledges)

alot of them try to use other minimalistic browsers that are still in developement but painfully lack support for huge amounts of things.

bump.

test

>>3690

What?

browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.gethashURL

browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.updateURL

browser.safebrowsing.provider.mozilla.gethashURL

browser.safebrowsing.provider.mozilla.updateURL

browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.reportURL

browser.safebrowsing.provider.mozilla.updateURL

browser.cache.disk.enable

My windows computer recently crashed and I lost just about everything.

My dad was good enough to reinstall windows 7 for me but now I know it's up to date on its updates.

Did anyone have that script for disabling things like telemetry and uninstalling the updates?

>>4605

AEGIS

OP did a great job with this thread, but I feel he went too much Ron Paul about Mint and Desktop Linux in general.

I think this one's a good read, it takes both sides with a grain of salt without the usual /pol/tard screaming and Muh Happening.

http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemXXdXXAntiSystemXXdXX/

Filtered to "emacs", how creative.

>admittedly it is pretty fun to pretend that anyone defending a given piece of software is actually a shill who secretly works for it, but I digress

I really liked this one. Just don't tell my N$@ and Microsoft employers I'm posting here, though.

BUMP, MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

MODS PLEASE STICKY

thanks, like the anon said above me, sticky sticky sticky

So, whats actually wrong with UblockOrigin?

>>4680

>asking anything useful of the mods

>when they pull shit like >>4626

>>3545

By this are you saying that emacs is the backdoor and should be avoided?

Does Gentoo and Kali Linux not have emacs?

>>4740

He's talking about emacs and redhat, what does emacs have to do here?

Why are you saying that?

>>3554

>it just werks bro

Bamp

Anyone got the original

bump

https://klamp.works/2016/04/29/dhcp.html

https://n0where.net/free-communication-tool-airchat/

Newfag to /g/ i have a thinkpad x220 that i got from craigslist. should i virtualbox the different distros first or should i just go with one and stick with it? Also, which do you recommend for a newfag?

I followed this fucking guide and now I can't login/post on any website. I have to post from my brother's phone. Please tell me what could be causing this. ;-;

>Ctrl+f "firewall"

>Phrase not found

OP, never forget about firewall.

There's literally nothing wrong with uMatrix or unlock Origin. NoScript is also good.

>>3537

My screen is blue and the tower feels like it's overheating. Where did I go wrong?

>Phone posting cause you broke my computer

too much work

Stop the reddit spacing

Templates should be stored in ghostbin.com

bump

>>6670

>bumping in a dead board

shit dont work

bumping so it doesn't accidentally get pushed off the end of this dead board before I link it

>>6050

I just spent more than five minutes staring at this image and still can't get over it

Well played OP.

bump

>>3537

Why is linux mint bad specifically?

I read your posts but there is nothing written there except that is bad for reasons.

Same goes for ublock origin and umatrix.

Just using Tor Browser Bundle is simpler and safer!

>>4680

This

>>8465

wrong, if you are on Windows or other proprietary OS. Use Tails instead.

Bump

Why only shill Linux distro's? Is there something wrong with OpenBSD? Last time I checked, it is systemd free.

>>8465

just use surf and a tor transparent proxy "simpler" and "not as safe"

bump

>>7002

The reason it does that is because shading alternates. On one dot the shadow is on the top, then the next on the bottom. Your eyes get confused as they keep trying to adjust to the order of the darkness and lightness of color.

>>3556

so what distro should we BE USING OH SENPAI. Guide me master.

can somebody please red pill me on what linux distro i should use? i dont want my hand held. I just need a fucking straight answer so i can plunge into linux and learn properly. im using MInt right now, but Its "easy" to use is making me paranoid and I don't want to be around normies, i want to learn what the big boys are using. Thank you.

>>3543

did you edit this? I thought I read "icemonkey" among your suggestions a couple weeks ago.

anyway. Good post op. thank you.

>>9651

seamonkey*

>>9531

just use mx linux. no systemd and simular to mint, but not as bloated.

is it safe to use passwords on https sites over tor?

tails master race here

>>9654

by safe i mean that the exit node cant read it

So what firefox fork do we use then? what do we replace ublock origin with? if you want people to be educated and know what to switch to, at least give some good examples.

uh, i cant find anything to change the mentioned about:permissions shit. im using pale moon and it only gives me ways to change the permissions of websites

>>9710

ignore that, its in about:config

Jesus christ ever since this whole New Zealand thing popping into these less active boards I am just seeing retards pouring in from reddit everywhere. The typing and wording style of most people on this board has went from you actually sound like you know what your talking about to some child who's hyped up on sugar on their parent's computer.

STOP

TYPING

LIKE

THIS

You fucking spastic retard.

>>9690

>go through all that unreadable wall of text just to link to a discord. The irony is deafening.

>>3543

dont be so high and mighty retard

we already know this shit

literally fuck off to somewhere that people dont know this

cianiggers

>>10862

Wielding a saber like a faggot with a brilliant edge! All patterns known, all darkness discerned. Hide you can't, yes?

>manually editing about:config

have you heard of user.js for hardening firefox/icecat?

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/

>>9776

>My site

>Putting sage in irrelevant fields

Yep this is /g/ alright

niggers

>>10862

Why are the CIA trying to hide? Are they unironically the good guys?

imahone using webbrower 2o post