Browsers, your windows to the WWW - The WWW
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(This is part of the podcast discussion extension)
Link of the recording [ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nixers...-08-07.mp3 ] Browsers, your windows to the world wide web. What do you use, customize, problems you've stumbled upon, the ties with your Unix system. --(Transcript)-- |
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for my job i am required to use chrome (we target webkit with our sites, so we all must test on the same platform)
i compile chromium myself. i use the inox patchset for some added base security and a number of plugins: - cvim - stylish - clear cache - edit this cookie - ublock origin - gtranslate - reddit enhancement suite i use stylish *everywhere* to override css on sites. here's my style overrides. i also use my gtktheme as the base style for the app. i have also been using qutebrowser some. it's very fast and lean. i like the interface and the controls. but until you can do css overrides, (inline, plugin, etc) it will not be my personal choice. |
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-- <mort> choosing a terrible license just to be spiteful towards others is possibly the most tux0r thing I've ever seen |
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I've used Firefox for a major portion of my life, but I really hate the direction it's going in. As I use Debian I'm very tempted to take the current stable package of Iceweasel and use that indefinitely, but no security updates irks me.
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I've used Opera since the days you could open the binary in a hexeditor to disable the ad-support, from memory that was 1996 or so. I've been sore to see it become a chromium skin and am still hanging on to it out of a kind of inertia. The combination of Opera with my kid does nasty things with the memory though (he likes to open about 5 tabs with googlemaps and up to another 10 with youtube and umpty wiki's. With all mem&swap full, linux becomes unresponsive. It's a shame that this still happens in 2016, I say). Otherwise I use FF sometimes. I've tried more minimalistic browsers which has a certain appeal but I also want them to 'just work and display the page', so I've never actually made the switch.
Kirby: doesn't Debian supply security fixes? I thought the difficulty of backporting to really old versions was their reason for switching to the latest LTS version. But I've been gone from Debian for some time. Anyway, Iceweasel is rebranded Firefox so I'm not sure what you hope to achieve by such a switch. |
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(24-05-2016, 02:00 AM)Dworin Wrote: Kirby: doesn't Debian supply security fixes? I thought the difficulty of backporting to really old versions was their reason for switching to the latest LTS version. But I've been gone from Debian for some time. Anyway, Iceweasel is rebranded Firefox so I'm not sure what you hope to achieve by such a switch. So a really quick primer on the Debian release system. There are three branches, stable, testing and unstable. New packages get uploaded to unstable, then if about a week goes by with no major bugs it moves into testing. Evetually testing gets 'frozen' and no new packages can move over. They then fix all the major bugs and release that as the new stable. A new stable release is every 2 years or so (sorry if you already knew this). Packages in stable never receive any updates except security ones. The Firefox in testing / unstable is something like version 45. It also lost the Iceweasel branding and is now just Firefox. What I was getting at above is that I keep hold of the Iceweasel currently in stable indefinitely, which is locked in at Firefox 38. While this is fine for now eventually a new stable will come out with the new Firefox, and by that point I'm not sure if they'll send out security patches for a 2-year old release. Even if they did I'd probably have to install them manually. The obvious solution here is to just drop Firefox completely, but I've never found anything that satisfies me. Newer browsers are too 'modern' (menus in the sides, tacky animations, etc.), and other ones are too minimalistic and slow. |
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I didn't quite catch the fact that you wanted to keep using a version even more outdated than Debian's stable. That's something of an achievement. :-)
The policy is/used to be to support oldstable for 1.5 to 2 years after a new stable is released but in the case of FF support may mean backporting of a newer LTS version rather than patching the stuffing out of your version of choice. (but yeah, you knew that). |
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come on guys we all know mothra is the best browser ever
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I use Chrome on pretty well everything, but considering a return to uzbl
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I recorded the audio/podcast for this subject.
I'd love to have feedback on the way I'm recording this. What are your thoughts? As usual you can check all the podcast on http://podcast.nixers.net/what . |
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I enjoy the podcasts, I do a pull on the git repo every monday at work and then listen to the new episode while I am working.
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I use chrome on android. I use lynx or dillo on my OpenBSD machines.
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@mushmouth text browsers are where it's at.
I use elinks pretty much constantly, but have surf and firefox for when I need them. |
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Surf mainly because Firefox is getting too bloated and is much slower than it used to be :( I have however been lingering at firefox's funeral waiting for the bell to chime
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This isn't a "what browser do you use" thread.
Please stay on topic. |
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