[Bradford] Web Browsers

John Robert Hudson j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com
Wed Feb 5 18:44:11 UTC 2020


Hi Mike
Nothing will give you all the FF features. I like Falkon because it displays 
webpage source code better than any other browser. It depends what you want it 
to do.

I find Vivaldi a bit slow but I seems quite feature rich.

John

On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:13:28 GMT Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I need a replacement for Firefox. Apparently, when the Doze version of
> it is applied, so JRE can be run (FF ditched Openjava whatsitcalled a
> couple of years ago so I'm having to compile this) the standard, proper,
> FF clashes with it so both can't be used on the same platform.
> 
> JRE is a requirement to open the console inside the iOL4 console, if you
> see what I mean. Once I have the OS installed on the server and can
> shell directly in, that shouldn't be needed much.
> 
> So, who is using something from the FOSS camp other than FF but is also
> good for general purposes? I'm looking at the ArchWiki and there are
> lots but it doesn't say which are any good and too many of them are in
> the AUR (user repo, fiddly to install and maintain, plus with threats of
> malicious content included).
> 
> I once had a go with SeaMonkey, which was good for speed and, IIRC,
> security, but it lacked a lot of the FF features for general use. Does
> anybody know if it has more to it these days?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 
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