"Smartness-free" web browser?

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Fri Feb 15 15:36:45 UTC 2019



On 2/15/19 9:23 AM, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 15/02/2019 15:18, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> I am looking for "Smartness-free" web browser. In the past I was using
>> midori, but today I was bitten in my backside by "smartness" introduced
>> into latest midori.
>>
>> Why. I have a bunch of machines with older 3ware RAIDs. The last I loved
>> for having web interface. To the contrary to command line, especially in
>> case of hardware RAID management, it is much more difficult to screw up
>> when using GUI.
>>
>> In the past, when firefox went all the way about SSL certificates,
>> midori was my life preserver. I do access these RAID web interfaces
>> locally, and I do know what's going on inside these machines... I can
>> disable SSL in 3ware RAID daemon (this time it just doesn't accept
>> certificates 3ware daemon presents - to way for me to affect that that I
>> can find) but... I just don't like some piece of software thinking it is
>> smarter than I am when I use it. Dough.
>>
>> Any suggestions, anybody?
> 
> Depending on how much graphic decoration the GUI uses, maybe a text
> based browser like lynx might serve your needs?
> 

Thanks for suggestion!

Alas, 3ware uses frames which lunx doesn't support...

Valeri

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