[Liverpool] Alternative browser suggestions

[Stephen Watkin]

Hi Seb,

That's an interesting one. I've not had much of a problem with memory 
consumption myself but I do have a few other problems with Firefox and 
Chrome and it'd be nice to explore the current landscape.

I always find when I'm looking for alternatives that I last about 5 
minutes with whatever new software before I come across a missing 
feature that I didn't even know I used on whatever it is I'm looking to 
replace. I think for me, getting a decent-sized checklist of feature 
requirements would be a bit of a job in itself.

I had a job a while ago that required a locked-down 'kiosk'-type browser 
with a couple of odd requirements (i.e., touch scrolling before touch 
scrolling was a thing that had trickled down into the 'stable' distros) 
and I think the furthest I got was with 'Midori' which struck me as 
quite a well-rounded product - although there's almost certainly going 
to be at least one show-stopper requirement that rules that out for you.

Let us know how you get on!

Ste


On 27/03/18 09:15, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I hope we are all well. I realise this could be a slightly contentious 
> issue, and might just start the next holy war - so please try and keep 
> the replies nice and steady! (if there will be any replies, that is) :-)
>
> I am getting a little bit fed-up with Firefox being a bit of a pig at 
> devouring memory - and I was thinking of trying some other browser. 
> I'm not after anything particularly radical - just something a bit 
> slimmer, but still with a pretty complete modern feature set, to 
> support whatever the web throws at us these days. I only use 2-3 
> add-ons in Firefox, and I think I can live without them - so add-on 
> support is not particularly important.
>
> I thought the task would be easy - with maybe 2-3 choices out there on 
> Linux - but to my surprise, even the Slackware repo's list over a 
> dozen alternatives (and that is saying something!) :-)
>
> Ideally I'd like something with a significant enough community - which 
> will hopefully mean it will be around a while.
>

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