Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:43:33 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox or what? References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> <20190812164800.1bc5581b40de9436a977ea02@sohara.org> <875zn22mmc.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <d968aa28-dd43-ba88-f1f7-846330e9ed0c@netfence.it> <871rxorh4y.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <5be8adb1-cf57-9e24-4ce9-27a76cc3ece8@netfence.it> <3e27ec4d-65d0-063e-eb5e-4465aa4cbc84@gmail.com> <20190815124616.3916a9a0e4958c29917c57fd@gc-24.de> <39be165e-0d6c-5ba5-7fec-caaae9603812@gmail.com> <20190815190435.ae53f114489da5de8cf343d1@gc-24.de> <063af304b35c7b8f852ec0a00f1282f24f8db56e.camel@rocketmail.com> <5cf06276-5b83-dc43-9a66-6dd2489391de@netfence.it>
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from Andrea Venturoli: > While continuing this thread down the slope it got (with useless arguments on > netiquette, release engineering, supposed NFS incompatibilities, etc...) is a > nonsense, I think half the OP's original question still holds, i.e.: what > viable browsers (other than FireFox) do we have available in the port > collection? > Some times ago, when PaleMoon was removed, I felt the need to find an > alternative. > Searching the www categories and excluding text-only browsers, still yields a > lot of results. > Some are too lightweight (read: they can't make "modern" > useless-javascript-crap-infested sites work), some just crash... trying them > all would be a huge task. > So I hoped to collect experiences on this. I was favorably impressed by Otter Browser, but have not been able to update because my FreeBSD installation, 11.1-STABLE, is too far behind for updating ports. I can see Dillo and Netsurf are too lightweight, not up to the gymnastics required by modern crap-infested websites. I would also like to try to build Midori again, a more modern version than 0.5.11. Tom
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