[Liverpool] Alternative browser suggestions

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 27/03/18 10:55, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Vivaldi recently (https://vivaldi.com). So far I've 
> found it to be a lot lighter on memory usage than Chrome or Firefox. 
> I've had Chrome using 10GB+ RAM in the past.

Thank you for that. I tried Vivaldi briefly earlier today and it seems 
quite good. There are two small niggles for me. One that it is freeware, 
not open source - but depending on your views, that might not be so 
important. The second is that I had a distinct impression that the 
interface is aimed at ex-Opera fans. Nothing actually wrong with it - 
but it is somehow reminiscent of Opera. As I don't have any previous 
emotional connection with Opera, I guess that is a bit lost on me. But 
otherwise it seems like a decent browser.

> 
> On 27 March 2018 at 09:15, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool 
> <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>> 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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