firefox or what?
Thomas Mueller
mueller6722 at twc.com
Sat Aug 17 22:44:25 UTC 2019
from Andrea Venturoli:
> While continuing this thread down the slope it got (with useless arguments on
> netiquette, release engineering, supposed NFS incompatibilities, etc...) is a
> nonsense, I think half the OP's original question still holds, i.e.: what
> viable browsers (other than FireFox) do we have available in the port
> collection?
> Some times ago, when PaleMoon was removed, I felt the need to find an
> alternative.
> Searching the www categories and excluding text-only browsers, still yields a
> lot of results.
> Some are too lightweight (read: they can't make "modern"
> useless-javascript-crap-infested sites work), some just crash... trying them
> all would be a huge task.
> So I hoped to collect experiences on this.
I was favorably impressed by Otter Browser, but have not been able to update because my FreeBSD installation, 11.1-STABLE, is too far behind for updating ports.
I can see Dillo and Netsurf are too lightweight, not up to the gymnastics required by modern crap-infested websites.
I would also like to try to build Midori again, a more modern version than 0.5.11.
Tom
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