Browser Competition

[machinebacon]

Yesh, give this poor man a backing :D

Really just for kicks I would looooove to get Galeon working...

[archvortex]

Anyone using GNU/IceCat? ;)

[machinebacon]

I nearly puked. Well... IceCat was the BBQ default GTK2 web browser kit back in the golden (as in pee-colored) days. Those days it was comparably low in install size for a browser/mail client combo. Of course it had to suffer a lot of bitchin'...

[siklopz]

you can download Midori directly from their website. i use it and Palemoon on most of my light installs. for example, on VoidLinux JWM, i'm running around 100MB RAM, after a few hours up and a couple of source installs. RAM usage with Midori (4 or 5 tabs open) runs around 180 - 200 MB.

[dkeg]

How long can you run Midori between crashes? If it finally works, great.

[siklopz]

it depends on the distro. Midori was working great on Void, now i'm having some issues with toolbars compressing. i usually get better results on manjaro openrc. yes, that is it's downfall. it's one of my favorite light, fast browsers, but it usually crashes, or bugs out, eventually. i find Midori works best if you don't use it to watch videos. for that, i usually use Vivaldi. it's my favorite new "heavy" browser, but it lacks plugins, as far as i can tell.

[machinebacon]

As said, by the time of writing this Midori was not in the Jessie repos and I only used the browsers that were in the Debian Jessie repositories. There is a good reason I don't install stuff that creates a dependency hell (see Midori and their notes on Debian). That it "was working great on *** and used around *** RAM there" is surely pleasant - I also regularly tell my wife that my ex was a blowjob queen.

[siklopz]

hilarious, but now that you mention it...