LarryNG I remb years ago when wired was the defacto I was doing something on the desktop
dont remb what alarm bells went off I reached down yanked the network cable out of computer...lol

Dunno was the quickest thing I could think of..rofl
And yes if you yank hard enuf you break stuff..

    Axios If you ever had a house break in (as I have) it pales in comparison

    everything is small potatoes after terror like that my friend. understand.

    right now I'm finally happy. no pen and paper. a file on the hdd with the passwords. and I back that up. and I cut and paste from it when logging in. no cloud, no browser extensions that do listen at open ports because that's their cue to recognize the login and do the auto-fill in. I was comfortable with that for a long time and one I thought..."hey, wait a minute...."

      brent "someone can break in your house and take it or photograph it" so I stopped making that argument🙂.

      If someone has access to your house they can also use the "hit you with a heavy wrench and politely ask" method of password retrieval. Then it doesn't matter whether you wrote them down on paper, or stored them in a digital database.

          From the pulled out of my butt category, wouldn't it be possible to create a program to run a sandboxed browser on something like Win 7?

          I get security concerns and updated web standards, but the whole having to scrap the entire OS just to browse the web (even if with limited fuctionality) just seems so stupid to me.

          What am I missing?

            You wouldn't need to create a program. Just spend a few minutes and create a virtual machine. Every VM I've ever created includes a browser, usually a popular one. Assuming you use Solus, you could create a VM that's the same edition as its host and uses the same browser, so everything would be familiar to you.

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              WetGeek Point me in the direction of how to do this in Solus to run something like W10?

              Thanks in advance.

                  qsl Point me in the direction of how to do this in Solus to run something like W10?

                  VirtualBox is in the repository. You'll probably want the one for the current kernel, so at the command line, just ask for eopkg it virtualbox-current (or find it in the Software Center). Using it is pretty simple, but usually requires a tutorial for folks who are using it for the first time. I wrote one of those a couple of years ago, but I've been thinking of writing a new one for VirtualBox 7.

                  I should do that tomorrow, so if you want to get the software and take a look around, I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. I happen to have a friend who would benefit greatly from VMs, but I haven't yet convinced him to try using them. Maybe an updated tutorial would convince him.

                  You start with an .ISO file. You can get one for Windows 10 online from microsoft.com -- just search for it.
                  Then, you create a virtual disk drive, which is nothing more than a file. You define the properties your VM will have, and give it the virtual disk to install on and select the .ISO file to install on it. From there on, it's just like installing it on hardware.

                  Yes, you can have a Win 10 VM. A Windows 10 VM will come with the Edge browser already installed, but you can typically install any program on a VM that you can install on hardware, so if you prefer a different browser, just install it.

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                    qsl I remember sandboxie being an app like that on WinXP era. I think Firejail is somewhat a Linux equivalent for what you're looking for.

                        [deleted] I think Firejail was made for FF (I could be wrong). When I used to use it for Chrome-knockoffs those browsers would scream and fight and hiss and resist firejail/sanboxing. they'd break themselves.
                        There's also the remote possibility I had no idea how to use it..