firefox or what?

starikarp at dismail.de starikarp at dismail.de
Sat Aug 17 23:42:21 UTC 2019


On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:43:33 +0000
"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722 at twc.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
I am using for some web sites Qutebrowser. It works well but I am not
sure how safe it is.



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