Favorite browser

Linux and BBQ related polls
User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:18 pm

And now I am back to Google Chrome. Same dev tools, but it just works on every website. It even seems quicker, buy maybe it's just me.

User avatar
vic
Godot
Posts: 2109
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:11 am
Location: /bin

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by vic » Fri Aug 24, 2018 8:16 am

Going back and forth between Firefox and Opera, which has become a very pleasant reaquaintance. :)
Sorry guys, no signature for a while, too busy with life. :|

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:14 am

Chrome revamped the UI to celebrate its 10 years. Rounded edges everywhere. A mix between Opera and Firefox? Who knows. :)

pidsley
Hermit
Posts: 2539
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:31 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by pidsley » Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:40 pm

I'm still using firefox-esr, but I took a look at basilisk. Made by the same people who build Pale Moon, it's enough like Firefox that it might be an option if Firefox continues to get stupid.

User avatar
ivanovnegro
Minister of Truth
Posts: 5448
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:05 pm

GekkoP wrote:
Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:14 am
Chrome revamped the UI to celebrate its 10 years. Rounded edges everywhere. A mix between Opera and Firefox? Who knows. :)
How strange. Now Chrome looks like the old Firefox with Australis.

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:36 pm

^ Exactly. They say it's the Material Design, but I immediately thought "this just happened before".

User avatar
franksinistra
Ivana Fukalot
Posts: 1093
Joined: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:03 am
Location: 印尼国

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:29 am

Everything is material design these days, it's like brainwashing.
rice no more.

User avatar
bones
Clooney
Posts: 2385
Joined: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:47 pm
Location: Cascadia

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:57 am

Gave up on Firefox, moved to Pale Moon.

User avatar
ivanovnegro
Minister of Truth
Posts: 5448
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:14 pm

Right now even using the ESR version of Firefox. I was actually too lazy to care. Quantum is good enough that it now makes sense as ESR.

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue May 21, 2019 8:10 am

Trying out latest Firefox, just for the sake of it. A bit snappier than Chrome, with a slightly better font rendering (or is it just my eyes?).

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue May 21, 2019 8:49 am

^ Although I had to add this to my userChrome.css to get decent font size in the dev tools:

Code: Select all

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
body, .CodeMirror-line {
  font-size: 14px !important;
  font-weight: normal;
}

div, [platform="linux"]:root .devtools-monospace{
  font-size: 14px !important;
}

User avatar
ivanovnegro
Minister of Truth
Posts: 5448
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue May 21, 2019 11:19 am

If your fonts are set right for your OS they should look the same in both browsers (rendering wise) but you have to go to the fonts settings of them to adjust the fonts. I think both use different fonts by default. I always switch them to mine.

User avatar
wuxmedia
Grasshopper
Posts: 6445
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:32 am
Location: Back in Blighty
Contact:

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue May 21, 2019 11:30 am

^ yeah fonts seem tiny these days, maybe it's my eyes :D
our ticket system is hardcoded to use Arial :/
"Seek, and Ye shall find"
"Github | Chooons | Site"

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue May 21, 2019 1:24 pm

^^ Font settings in Firefox reflects the one on my system. The font is picked up correctly, only the size was wrong.

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:32 am

Firefox doing good, so far, aside from some glitches whenever an Electron app is started. But I'm happy, so I can safely say I won't go back to Chrome/Opera soon.

User avatar
gutterslob
Resident Tranny
Posts: 1124
Joined: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:13 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by gutterslob » Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:49 am

^ Don't electron apps glitch everywhere? :P

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:05 pm

Yeah, and they're heavy as an elephant with a giant penguin on his back.

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:52 am

Anyone tried Brave (and happy with it)?

At a first run it didn't impress me that much. It seems just another spin on the Chromium world. Glad to go back to it if I hear nice words about it, though.

User avatar
ivanovnegro
Minister of Truth
Posts: 5448
Joined: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:19 pm

It is basically Chromium stripped off of some privacy invading features and added some to protect it by default to the browser that you need extensions for in Firefox.

But I do not like that is is still another clone of Chrome and when I add all the things to Firefox, Firefox works better. Ublock is miles ahead from the default ad blocker integrated in Brave (one of their selling points). Brave also has a business model that you have to be a fan of it. I am not against it per se but I still do not trust it enough to be usable for me.

Brave is as bloated as Chrome and heavy, uses more RAM, uses an inefficient ad blocker. If you harden your Firefox you can have all the benefits of Brave and even beyond. Of course you have to do it and Brave is already offering you an out-of-the-box experience. Some users might prefer it that way. It is definitely different from the other Chromium clones in that regard but anything else is the same and you can still 'pollute' it with Chrome extensions.

I really prefer Firefox even if they mess it up sometimes because it is right now the only real alternative on the browser market that uses another engine than Blink and I think it works really great and it improved drastically. There is also the container stuff that you can only do on Firefox e.g. if you use Facebook.

All that said Brave is not a bad browser and I personally think it is better than all the other Chrome spinoffs.

User avatar
GekkoP
Emacs Sancho Panza
Posts: 5877
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:05 am

Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:38 pm

^ Good, we're on the same line then. :)

I've come to appreciate Firefox again lately, and uBlock is really really great. Didn't think the built-in ad-blocker in Brave could match it, but it sure offers a step forward towards privacy concerns respect default Chrome.

Post Reply