More on that in a minute. I decided to try using Opera on Linux instead of Firefox. My motivation is the influence Google has been exerting on Firefox coupled with suspiciously-rapid “updates” over the last couple of months or so. Of course, I want to be clear: choosing Opera over Firefox because of problems with Google’s influence is a bit like saying “I don’t like how General Motors controls Opel so I’ll buy a Chevy instead.” Firefox is still based on the Gecko engine; Opera is built on Chromium. As in, Chrome. I have, however; accomplished some of the things I needed to do in order to move on to maybe a more secure and less-Google influenced browser, like maybe LibreWolf. Most importantly I broke my dependence on Firefox’s sync settings, and the Linux version of Opera (in my experience so far) WILL NOT import ANYTHING from any external browser. Or rather, at least; the EASY way. It won’t detect that I have Firefox installed. I had to manually export bookmarks to a file then import it. And since I’ve been meaning to move all my Firefox-stored passwords to Bitwarden for a while, I finally went through that process. After some setup Opera works…fine. I have noticed that it slows down after a while doing playlist management in YouTube, but some things work better on Opera than on Firefox, like video redirects on some sites. Certain ones don’t work on Firefox; they do on Opera. Bit of a surprise honestly, because I thought they were just broken. I will likely try LibreWolf sooner rather than later. Firefox works *well* for me, I just want to get further away from Google.<\/p>\n
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When I talk about songs named “Forever Young” I want to acknowledge there are, of course, more than two. Many songs have the same title. Constraining the list to popular, well-known, successful songs does limit the range a bit more. For instance, Jay-Z released a song in 2010 called “Young Forever” which re-works one of the two songs I’m talking about. In fact, the first-released song has been so extensively covered I wouldn’t be surprised if, especially in America, the original release is barely remembered.<\/p>\n