Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-29 Thread Gavin Wraith
In message Vince M Hudd wrote: >At the domain level, you could add entries to your hosts file for sources >you want blocked, along the lines of: > >127.0.0.1google-analytics.com > >This will effectively stop websites you visit on that computer *with any >browser* from loading anyth

Re: Filtering webpages

2016-01-29 Thread Vince M Hudd
Gavin Wraith wrote: > In message > Vince M Hudd wrote: [blocking domains via the host file] > > If you can do something similar in your router, you will achieve the > > same result for any computer on your network. > Thanks for that tip. I realize that the idea of a webpage being ho

auto-launching a PDF

2016-01-29 Thread Jim Nagel
When Netsurf fetches a PDF file, would it be possible to trigger the PDF-reading application automatically, rather than requiring the user to save the file to disc and then launch it manually? (The manual procedure is too complex to explain to a technophobe Other Half.) What prompts me to ask

Re: auto-launching a PDF

2016-01-29 Thread Richard Porter
On 29 Jan 2016 Jim Nagel wrote: > When Netsurf fetches a PDF file, would it be possible to trigger the > PDF-reading application automatically, rather than requiring the user > to save the file to disc and then launch it manually? It would also be nice if NetSurf could automatically launch a pla