Favorite browser

[Alad]

Tried the new Opera. I could go into detail, but tl;dr it's like GNOME 3 to GNOME 2 - but without the new ideas.

/purged.

[ivanovnegro]

^ Good comparison.

[Alad]

Wondered why Firefox/Chrome use that much memory? Adblock!

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/20 ... ory-usage/

[machinebacon]

^ Good read, thank you. I have just removed AdBlock and use this for a test:

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wget http://hostsfile.org/Downloads/BadHosts.unx.zip
unp BadHosts.unx.zip
cd BadHosts.unx
./AutoHosts.sh
mv add.Porn _add.Porn
cat add.* >> hosts.lnx
su
cat hosts.lnx >> /etc/hosts
exit

One of many ways to achieve the same thing, I'm just testing this hosts file for a while and check how it influences general performance (which might slow down lookups if the hosts file is too big(

[GekkoP]

^ && ^^ really interesting. Just for kicks, I'm used to this solution: http://surf.suckless.org/files/adblock-hosts

[machinebacon]

^ we have an 'adblock-host' script in bbq, by the way ;)

[bones]

I have been using xombrero and surf on OpenBSD, and adsuck seems to work well with xombrero.

[kiiroitori]

Eventually after testing surf a bit, luakit some more and dwb, I stuck with dwb. Luakit was a bit faster (or felt faster) but I couldn't make adblock to work and a couple of crashes were enough to make me abandon it.
dwb is pretty nice: mininal UI, vim-like keybindings and a few useful extensions available. As a bonus I always got a timely reply to my questions from the developper ("portix") on irc so good customer service!
I still have firefox installed though just in case and when I launch it it feels like an eternity to load compared to the above mentionned alternatives.

[Subsentient]

I'm just a boring Firefox user. It's not the best browser ever, but it's what I've got. I hate Firefox Australis but eventually just said meh. I liked Opera when they used Presto. If they were FOSS I would have been using them exclusively, but not when they went away from Presto. I have a grudge on WebKit because it's a bitch to compile, and when you do get it built, it expects your chip to have SSE2 support no matter what flags you throw at it. Fucking inline asm.

[bones]

I hate Firefox Australis but eventually just said meh.

The past couple of days have been an OCD-fuelled search for a cross-platform browser solution that I don't hate.

The situation:
I need a full-featured browser for both MacOS and Linux that is stable, blocks ads, allows for https all the time, has reasonable privacy, and enables me to keep my bookmarks synced on all computers.

My usual solution is Firefox with uBlock (previously used ABE), https-everywhere, Privacy Badger, and FF Sync.

The problems:
I hate the new (Chrome-esque) Australis interface. And I hate Chrome/Chromium (does many things well and right, but always ends up pissing me off). Using FF version prior to v.29 is OK, but security-wise not the best option. Using Classic Theme Restorer wasn't too bad, but eventually gave fits of OCD.

The solution (mostly):
Pale Moon browser is pretty good... frequent updates, no Australis, no uBlock but has Adblock Latitude (like ABE, not the sellout ABP), Privacy Badger works, but not https-everywhere, bookmark syncing works. They have Linux, Mac, and Windows versions available.

http://www.palemoon.org/

[Dr_Chroot]

I have not tried Pale Moon, but I have heard great things about it. I'll have to give it a try sometime :) At this time I use Firefox, which I have all synced up across installs. With some CSS tweaks (a la Stylish) and Vimperator it's like my security blanket :D

[wuxmedia]

I'm just a Chrome ho' - I love the sync (phone - laptop - maps everywhere) is very useful for me, and the NSA - but hey!
I use a vim like thing on chrome, after spending a day in 'less' and vim, those keybinds are second nature now.

[bones]

Dr., that combo seems like a good one; cleans up the Australis mess, anyway.

[ivanovnegro]

At least you still can change the whole appearance of FF.
I am still on Chrome the last months, it is so bloated that it kills the whole BBQ manifesto but it loads pages faster and plays better with HTML5 content than FF. Though it has problems with Webm's on this forum.

[darry1966]

No real favourite mostly use Firefox (Favorite version 17ESR) and sometimes Seamonkey , older Opera.

[nova]

Tor-Browser-Bundle,xxxterm,elinks2

[DebianJoe]

Guess I haven't chimed in here.
Chromium(on hyper bloated systems)/emacs-w3m(otherwise (like anyone would be surprised by this))

I used dwb for a while, and really liked it. If I'm on a system that is already going to have all the glade + gtk + python bloat, I'll normally put roaster on there, because I'm nostalgic.

[GekkoP]

As of today: latest Firefox. Only when needed: eww.

[machinebacon]

Like ivan and wux, still Chrome (yesh, the real one) when in X (and links when outside of it). On the phone I'm on Mercury, it's quite "light" in comparison to the default Android browser.

[galbi]

Perhaps the good old Opera is back:
https://vivaldi.com

Lightwight? Err... I don't think so.

Saludos.