• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

A fast, safe alternative to Chrome or Firefox

Tom Clayton said:
Sorry to necro-post, but it turns out that Brave has done some sketchy stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controversies

Thanks to a user on the official forum, I switched out my nearly useless "AdBlock" blocker to Ghostery. It gets rid of every single ad on the .to site and runs the countdowns in a blink - just like the Brave browser, but without the risk of anything hinky going on.
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Your post caused me to raise an eyebrow and think, what? I have always used Edge with Ad Guard. Until reading your post I never knew they had ads on FS2. I never saw them. As for the countdown timer, if I am trying to download more than one file I open each in its own window. I start the countdown timer in the first window, then go to another window and start it too. When finished I go back to the original download window and the timer is either finished or almost finished.

Besides, being retired, I can wait. :)
 
Firefox + Ghostery & uBlock Origin = all bases covered. I didn't realize just how bad Chrome had gotten until I switched back to Firefox about a year or so ago. Best of all, I can use those extensions on the mobile version of Firefox as well, unlike Chrome or most other mobile browsers.
 
Just a quick post to say thanks for this discussion. I have made the switch away from Chrome and settled on Firefox with the suggested extensions and I'm quite happy with it compared to Chrome.
 
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