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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by siklopz » Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:26 pm

^ thanks, i'll take a look. i think i was confusing Conkeror with Konqueror, from KDE. i should have known better from this forum. i'll have to check it out, along with dwb and netsurf. i learn too much from this forum...and end up reading man pages for days, every time i visit.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:34 pm

^ Even konqueror isn't a bad browser, compared to some of the crap now. I sometimes use it with Q4OS, with TDE.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by dkeg » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:23 am

still mainly using vimb. Sometimes FF

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:57 pm

Sometimes the answer can be quite obvious. Seamonkey quietly chugs along, doing its thing with regular, non-dramatic updates, being a good Gecko browser (and email client and html composer). I never really gave it much time or thought until yesterday. Quite good, really, does what I need, without the FF baggage that I don't like.

As a bonus it always comes with a default Slackware installation. :)
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:04 pm

^ I used it for a while. Nowadays it's just plain Iceweasel/Firefox for me.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:13 pm

Any opinion on IceCat?

I only know RMS uses it and says MELPA is not free because it doesn't work with this browser.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:05 pm

^ IceCat seems pretty decent, basically FF/Iceweasel with FSF add-ons: LibreJS, Https-Everywhere, SpyBlock, etc. Interface/functionality indistinguishable from FF/Iceweasel.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:11 pm

^ Thought so. Just wondering how it behaves generally on nowadays web. I give it a quick try and couldn't use TweetDeck for instance.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:12 pm

^ The release cycle seems the same as Iceweasel (currently 38.6.0). In my tests it was the same as FF/Iceweasel, but then I don't have anything like TweetDeck going on.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by linuxbbq » Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:54 pm

IceCat was the de-facto standard GUI browser in the first year of the BBQ. A nice piece of software because it combined a HTML editor, mail client and a functioning web browser. I would probably use it on older hardware with limited resources.
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by bones » Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:25 pm

^ So it was like Seamonkey, basically. I don't think they have the mail client and HTML editor in IceCat, any more.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by noo_b_nomnoms » Thu Apr 07, 2016 7:36 am

I have been using arora on this openbox as my "full-featured" browser, and I have nice things to say about it. It's simple, not terribly fast or slow, renders pages well.
Just one little quirk that is really annoying. It does not show the status of a download.I mean nothing. It doesn't even show the progress of a dl- which on large dl's comes in quite handy. It doesn't even show if it is actually downloading or hung.
All it shows is a bar that looks as if it's trying to start the download. Like the radio bar in a gtk theme switcher.
I thought at first that it was hung, and ended up double-downloading a couple of things,lols.
That one little annoyance will probably keep me from installing it again,tbh.
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by GekkoP » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:40 pm

Moved to Opera (it's been 7 years since the last time I tried it...).

Smooth browsing, I have to say I am positively impressed.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Apr 23, 2017 5:13 pm

I am still always between Firefox and Chrome but use Chrome more because it supports hardware acceleration and even if I want to love Firefox, the performance on older hardware is mediocre, not the RAM usage (Chrome is king of bloat) but the overall rendering of content. Then I also own a Chrome Cast, yes it is evil, and Chrome supports that ootb, logically of course.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by darry1966 » Tue May 02, 2017 11:58 am

Still using Palemoon here - just does what I need it to do.
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by franksinistra » Wed May 03, 2017 1:00 pm

Been playing around with firefox now that they support per-tab container https://testpilot.firefox.com. I'm still using Chrome for other stuff (i.e work).
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed May 03, 2017 7:13 pm

^ chrome for work here, which is a bit funny as it probably reads all the pages (how else would it know to translate?) and sends all the keys to the kingdom straight to the NSA/GCHQ.
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by franksinistra » Sat May 13, 2017 6:07 am

^ Even the supposedly non-commercial Chromium always phoning home (Google) all the time. Not that it matters anyway....
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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by slartie » Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:49 pm

I've switched back to Opera. It's pretty sexy.

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Re: Favorite browser

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:51 pm

I am trying again Firefox with multi process and forced hardware acceleration. The performance is still meh.

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