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Re:Container Tabs by vosper on Saturday January 21, 2017 @01:01PM (#13451203)
I'm genuinely not trolling here: what are you worried could happen if you didn't do all of this stuff with the extensions and settings in your various profiles? What does it mean to trust a website?
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Re:Container Tabs by thenomad on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:45AM (#13455891)
From past experience, and the reason I browse with some fairly aggressive security settings (not the OP): I'm worried I could acquire a nasty rootkit-level virus.

I'm worried about that because I used to browse with no Noscript/similar, and then I got a infected by a rootkit, which I traced back to a new site I'd visited.

Since I didn't enjoy having to nuke my entire computer environment from orbit, I now have a rather locked-down browser.

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Re:Container Tabs by jolux on Saturday January 21, 2017 @01:25PM (#13451333)
I turn all of those Chrome features off everywhere anyways. I find the handlers to be especially annoying. Why the fuck would I want that? There's a reason I use Mail.app and it's not because I love using email in web views.
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Re:Container Tabs by homakov on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:08PM (#13451510)
Isn't mailto: opening Mail.app for you?
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Re:Container Tabs by jolux on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:36PM (#13451657)
yes, but Chrome bugs me about switching it to Gmail every time.
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