12-2017

From TWUUG

At this meeting:

  • William Melgaard talked about valdrind, a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.
  • More discussion about the major update of Firefox to 57 and the huge performance gains and caveats. Mark Davis showed how the about:config "media.autoplay.enabled" set to false can stop annoying automatic video playback and with minimal side-effects in Firefox since addons that did this in the past are now not compatible.
  • Alan Dudley talked about uMatrix, an advanced Firefox plugin that allows point-and-click filtering of net requests according to source, destination and type
  • Some discussion about dns and the "Unbound" DNS server.

Attendance: 8 Members + 0 new + 0 returning + 0 visitors = 8 attendees, minimum.
Membership: 31 Members + 0 new + 0 returning - 0 expired = 31 TWUUG members.

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