#Manage dropsync from windows pc install#
#Manage dropsync from windows pc software#

It looks like the Chrome sync sandbox is Disabled by default so you can leave it alone but keep an eye on it.

#Manage dropsync from windows pc install#

? If this has not been fixed yet, will it be? Now if we can get this cleared up, I can install vivaldi and bring it into daily use. When I open a tab and enter: vivaldi://net-internals/#dns after starting vivaldi with only one tab with the speed dial, I see the following hostnames: I do not want my browser to make any contact with google on its own, not for updates, not for search, not for dns, not for analytics. There were some discussions about this in March 2015: and in May 2015: but it was not clear if this has meanwhile been taken care of. I considered whether this should be posted in Privacy and Security, but it affects all use of Vivaldi, not just those especially seeking privacy and security. After seeing that Vivaldi is based on Chromium, I decided to install it first on an otherwise unused XP guinea pig machine. no chrome), and would want to know 100% that there is not something inside vivaldi chromium which is contacting google, for anything.

#Manage dropsync from windows pc software#

I am cautious about having any google related software on my machine (eg. Needless to say I pulled that weed out by the roots, and shortly afterwards shut down my gmail account. Some time after activating google talk to try it out, I found this thing called googleupdate which was installed on my machine, and silently updating itself in the background, previously unknown to me. Years ago, before google liberalized and cross-producted its spying policy, I used to have a gmail account. So when I come across something important that I want to add to my core bookmarks, I fire up Opera and put it in the right place in my bookmark hierarchy! Once in a while I export this bookmark file to my other browsers. Would you believe that I am still using Opera 12.17 to manage my bookmarks? This functionality is so unwieldy in other browsers. I did receive a thanks, but have not seen the improvements show up. I sent Mozilla a long list of user interface improvements that they could make to bring it up to the level of Opera.

After more than a decade of using Opera as my main browser, after 12.16 I switched to ff. First of all, let me say that I was pleasantly surprised when I saw about a couple of months ago that Jon & friends were developing a new browser.