[GLLUG] Web Browsers

[Tom McArthur]

Have you tried the Firefox fork called Pale Moon 
(http://www.palemoon.org)? I've been using it every since Mozilla 
decided to commit browser suicide. It works great in both Linux and 
Windows. Most FF add-ons work in PM, although a few have PM-specific 
versions.

Tom

On 03/03/2017 01:41 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
> I was planning to write a message telling you of my search for a new 
> web browser after Firefox began sending so much telemetry that my 
> dial-up internet access speed was cut down to a quarter or less.  Then 
> this article showed up on LinuxToday.com
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-the-fastest-linux-web-browser/
>
> You may recall that I complained about Firefox a few months ago. Since 
> then I've tried several other browsers.  I stayed away from Chrome and 
> Chromium, since I'd like to avoid Google's attempts to collect my 
> private information.  I tried two privacy-enhanced versions of 
> Chromium, Slimjet and Iron, and another modified version of Chromium 
> called Vivaldi.  These are pretty much covered in the article.  I also 
> tried Midori, Qupzilla, Arora, and Rekonq, which use the webkit 
> library.  I even tried some keyboard-driven browsers, Xombrero and 
> dwb, thinking that being stripped-down browsers would make them pretty 
> fast.
>
> Speed was my primary criterion, although stability and the proper 
> display of web pages was also important.  I didn't use any of the 
> tests SJVN did in the linked article, but differences in speed are 
> pretty apparent over dial-up.  I'm happy with Firefox on my laptops 
> when I'm someplace with a wireless access point, but it sucks over 
> dial-up, even with as much of the telemetry turned off as I could 
> figure out.
>
> The webkit browsers were unsatisfactory, either through lack of 
> features or instability.  They weren't noticeably faster at displaying 
> web pages, either.  The stripped-down browsers weren't faster at 
> displaying pages and lacked even more features.  Of the modified 
> Chromium browsers, Vivaldi was noticeably faster than any of the other 
> browsers I looked at.  It has a lot of nice features I had never seen 
> before.  All of the Chromium browsers use Chromium add-ons and 
> extensions, of which I use only two, Ghostery and Vanilla Cookie 
> Manager.  So I am a happy Vivaldi user now.
>
> I do use the text-based browser links frequently, just to read 
> articles that I don't need any graphics for, like news stories. That 
> is the fastest way to browse the web, but there are many sites it 
> doesn't work with.  For those interested, some other text-based 
> browsers are lynx, links2, elinks, and w3m.  The latter can view 
> images, although the layout on the page is messed up.

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