[Liverpool] Alternative browser suggestions

[Sebastian Arcus]

Hi Ste,

On 27/03/18 09:42, Stephen Watkin via Liverpool wrote:
> 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 guess it's not strictly the memory consumption that grates me the most 
- as on a laptop with 8GB of ram and a slim desktop environment, I am 
not short of memory. But Firefox becomes so unresponsive after a while! 
I need to keep for my work and private stuff 5-6 browser tabs (or 
windows) open all the time - and after a few days, it often is a case of 
waiting 3-5 seconds for Firefox to respond.

> 
> 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.

I just tried to install Midori - but it aborted for some reason during 
the compilation of webkit2gtk (or something like that) - and right now I 
don't really have the time or inclination to delve deeper. I might give 
it another go when I have some spare time.

> 
> Let us know how you get on!

At the moment I am trialling a browser called Brave - apparently based 
on Chromium. It is early days, but it feels more responsive than 
Firefox, and I kind of like the interface. We shall see.

Thanks for the suggestions



> 
> 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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