What are the popular browsers on FreeBSD ?

What browsers does everyone use ?

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Funny you should ask... I mostly use FreeBSD in a server role and I simply can't be bothered with X in those situations. Now, browsing is obviously something you don't casually do on a server console, but it can be useful sometimes. So... during those sessions I rely on www/lynx.

I suppose it's also a bit of laziness on my part, earlier today I wanted to grab base.txz and kernel.txz and while I could have used wget I prefer: lynx download.freebsd.org and I'll just find my way from there.
 
Shell browsers are certainly useful and bring back good old times. I recall using w3m to read textfiles.com and various other materials back in the day.
 
ShelLuser said:
Funny you should ask... I mostly use FreeBSD in a server role and I simply can't be bothered with X in those situations. Now, browsing is obviously something you don't casually do on a server console, but it can be useful sometimes. So... during those sessions I rely on www/lynx.

I suppose it's also a bit of laziness on my part, earlier today I wanted to grab base.txz and kernel.txz and while I could have used wget I prefer: lynx download.freebsd.org and I'll just find my way from there.
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You also can use fetch(1) and skip installing Lynx or wget altogether. Wget is sooo linux shit. ;) 🤪

As for Opening Post: I try to stick with Konqueror, but sometimes Firefox is just a better option on today's Internet. And between the two, I don't see a need to look for alternatives, all my web viewing/browsing needs are met.
 
hern42 said:
tried waterfox, worked fine... it was at the time of the firefox privacy buzz.
but after reading multiple articles i decided to get back to firefox and, well, not bother.
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what issues....may i know. i compiled waterfox with poudriere n only enabled oss. i secured it too following vermaden thread for firefox. it is working well.
 
When trying out non-graphical browsers, links (not lynx) worked pretty well.

My local newspaper has gone down the tubes but occasionally has a good story. The problem is, you can't read anything without subscribing, but they use javascript to detect that. So I visit the page with links and save the page locally.
 
nxjoseph said:
FYI, There is uBlock Origin Lite on Chrome for manifest v3 and it works like normal uBlock Origin.
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Yes, I am evaluating it now and the works better than expected. I still feel like taking this shot across the bow as a hint for breaking out of the closed Google ecosystem, though.

Not that I trust Mozilla leadership, but that is a different matter.
 
Still qutebrowser most of the time, iridium for certain sites and sometimes lynx where I can. Most of my bank's pages work in qutebrowser but recently I hit one that simply wouldn't. It was enough to make me think about changing banks.
 
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