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On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: |
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> On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: |
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> > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to |
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> > > stop working! |
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> > Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to |
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> > find it! |
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> It is even more weird this add-on provides just a search engine! It's not |
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> as if the add-on is related to a media player, or something you could |
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> expect it might need to touch audio. |
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I assume it's an inadvertent error: overwriting something it shouldn't. Don't |
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ask me what, though. |
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> I tried it on a plasma desktop and I can replicate the problem. However, I |
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> noticed if I go into Configure Audio Devices and select 'Analogue Stereo' |
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> and then 'Analogue Stereo Duplex' back & forth, the audio starts playing |
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> again. This is with a hard wired audio, no bluetooth. |
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No BT here either; I gave up on that some time ago. |
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> Any idea what the difference is between the various StartPage add-ons? |
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I have noticed that the ordinary startpage has started behaving differently in |
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recent versions. For instance, I searched for 'Best ...' once, and from then |
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on, when I opened a tab and typed a B, that 'Best ...' appeared, in bold, |
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right at the top. It couldn't be removed, even by deleting the add-on and |
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rebooting. I won't be using that again. |
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> Is StartPage to be trusted, anymore than all the rest mass surveillance |
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> corporates? |
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I don't know; is that what they do? Have you looked at https:// |
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eu.startpage.com/ ? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |