web browser choice for FreeBSD

abishai said:
Personally, I don't understand how one can navigate the Web without uBlock+uMatrix extensions, so question about browser was never relevant for me. It's www/firefox-esr
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There are a lot of ways to browse the web without ads,
you can customize your host file for example,
or also it is possible to add custom filters to www/midori or www/qupzilla-qt4 to builtin adblock…
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But yes, IMO too, www/firefox is the best web-browser out there :)
except for terrible default design, but Classic theme restorer helps a lot
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But sometimes I need more lightweight secondary browser, like www/surf or www/midori,
I like www/webkit-gtk2/www/webkit-gtk3 much, it is fast and nice, it is very handy to test some web sites with surf, that I'm making with firefox, for example.
And when I need to find out some info quickly when I'm using my x11/xterm terminal emulator,
then www/w3m is very useful, for example, http://www.freshports.org looking very good
on w3m
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It should be noted that 1) Chromium is far larger and more complicated, codewise, than Firefox, 2) Add-ons are mostly not written by Mozilla or Chromium but third-parties unrelated to both so complaints about them have nothing to do with the browser and 3) Firefox will have tab isolation in the next(?) version, or at least real soon now.

I'm a web developer and use both all day long. I love them both and especially the one I use at any one moment.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
3) Firefox will have tab isolation in the next(?) version, or at least real soon now.
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It is already available with firefox-50.1*, just set privacy.userContext.enabled to true in about:config
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PS. Personally I don't like Chrome :D, most of chrome extensions are useless adware, and it is very-very slow...
Also, as said before, it is very bloated -- "chrome is a good operationg system, but bad browser" :D heard this joke somewhere on the web.
 
ILUXA said:
most of chrome extensions are useless adware, and it is very-very slow...
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you only need a few extensions to make any browser better, the rest is pointless...
Blink + V8 is faster than Gecko, and it has been for some time (or last I checked metrics that is), though such differences continue to matter less as processors evolve. Mozilla's only hope in beating the competition in that regard is to retire the aged Gecko/XUL like they've been wanting to for years and switch to Servo, which is looking to be a fantastic solution.
 
I've stopped using Chrome a couple of years ago when after an update it kept crashing with my profile, and I had to create a new profile to make it working.
 
ILUXA said:
most of chrome extensions are useless adware
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I feel the need to repeat myself. Chromium people don't create most extensions (add-ons). Those are made by third parties but I don't pay much attention if they're not developer tools.
and it is very-very slow.
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I've never heard that said before. I find Firefox slow to open pages but more stable than Chromium.
aragats said:
I've stopped using Chrome a couple of years ago when after an update it kept crashing with my profile, and I had to create a new profile to make it working.
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By Chrome, I presume everyone here is talking about Chromium since Chrome itself doesn't run on FreeBSD.

The Chromium devs struggle mightily with the builds and there has been an ongoing issue caused by how huge it is. The maintainer has said that, currently, he doesn't have enough memory to do a build to fix it because of that. I don't know if that has changed but, iirc, you need 32GB of ram to build it or something equally big.
 
ILUXA said:
It is already available with firefox-50.1*, just set privacy.userContext.enabled to true in about:config
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PS. Personally I don't like Chrome :D, most of chrome extensions are useless adware, and it is very-very slow...
Also, as said before, it is very bloated -- "chrome is a good operationg system, but bad browser" :D heard this joke somewhere on the web.
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I tried turning on both settings and I don't have those options. How do you set that up?
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you need to add shortcut manually
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I'm using "privacy.userContext.enabled" only.
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Just tried with my test account (I don't want to close my current firefox session :)) with clean firefox config (so no plugins are installed and no configurations are made), and container tabs are available for me with privacy.userContext.enabled = true
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I'm using firefox-50.1.0_4,1
 
bcomputerguy said:
but I can't enable the containers, the option is greyed out, any tips?
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Sorry that I can't quote a source on this right now, but I believe this is supposed to be enabled by default. Currently a huge number of plugins/add-ons are fundamentally incompatible with multi-process Firefox, and it is automatically disabled if any of those plugins/add-ons are present to give developers a chance to catch up.
 
ANOKNUSA said:
Sorry that I can't quote a source on this right now, but I believe this is supposed to be enabled by default. Currently a huge number of plugins/add-ons are fundamentally incompatible with multi-process Firefox, and it is automatically disabled if any of those plugins/add-ons are present to give developers a chance to catch up.
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Ah, this does seem to be the issue, I created a new profile and removed all extensions and the containers are available. I only have 3 addons; ublock, vimfox and tampermonkey. I'll do some tests later to see which one is causing the issues.

Thanks for the tip!
 
Noticed that new option appeared in www/firefox, www/seamonkey and some other ports,
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This option require audio/sndio, Sndio " is a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project and ported to FreeBSD, Linux and NetBSD..." http://www.sndio.org/
I installed sndio, built and installed FF and SM with options from the screenshot above, added
Code: 
sndiod_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf, executed # service sndiod start, safely removed audio/pulseaudio, and it works fine for me and sounds good :)
 
Maxnix said:
Containers are available with www/firefox-esr (version 45.6.0_5,1) too. :) There isn't any icon for the Toolbar, but you can use container tabs with File -> New container tab from the menu bar. :)
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Maybe, 50.1* is that FF version on which I started to use it, so this info is from my experience only.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
My impression was he was saying context tabs were working without modification.
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Hmm, I have no idea what that is, and Google does not seem to have found anything yet. In any case privacy.userContext has not caused anything noticeable to happen here yet.
 
OJ said:
Hmm, I have no idea what that is, and Google does not seem to have found anything yet. In any case privacy.userContext has not caused anything noticeable to happen here yet.
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You may have to add it, the icon, manually: customize -> "an archive icon".
 
lebarondemerde said:
You may have to add it, the icon, manually: customize -> "an archive icon".
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Well that would be my question. What is it and why would I want an icon? Surely it must do something! :) I cannot find any information on the net regarding "context tabs" as it would relate to Firefox.

I run my tabs down the side so that I can have several open and still see them. They are also arranged in sub-tabs when I want that. So perhaps "context tabs" is of no practical use for my setup anyway. Was just curious since people are talking about it. (whatever it is)
 
OJ said:
Well that would be my question. What is it and why would I want an icon? Surely it must do something! :)
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drhowarddrfine said:
Well, I was confused and found out I was reading this out of context (get it?). I thought they were talking about 'process per tab' so silly me.
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We were talking about "container tabs", after setting "privacy.userContext.enabled" to "true" in about:config, you will be able to use container tabs (if none of your FF extensions are conflicting with it), container tabs are tabs, that are independent of each other, they have their own cookies, cache (as far as I know), etc... It's like using 4 different instances of firefox at the same time, so you can be connected to 4 (or even 5!) different facebook (or FreeBSD forums :D) accounts at the same time, for example.
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