What is you preferred internet-browser?

[baaz]

Lynx+Dillo on *BSD
Fifth on Linux
Mull + Bromite on android

 

[Alex Seitsinger]

I haven't made it yet.

 

[LibreQuest]

Lynx+Dillo on *BSD
Fifth on Linux
Mull + Bromite on android

I completely agree with lynx and dillo being great browsers. But firefox is fantastic. I've had an issue with audio on one system so I'm using chromium. But every other FreeBSD system I have runs firefox and lynx. I started using lynx back in 2002 and it's always been a staple for my systems. I never know when I'll break X.

 

[bgavin]

Firefox v83.0
This is the last version that handles Print Preview correctly.
I do a huge amount of Print to PDF, and later versions of FF don't do it right.
I am stuck with Chrome for the alternate, because so many web sites refuse to talk to FF v83, being down level.
Meh

 

[bgroper]

It differs from others in the oppinion about security:

'Re: chromium and firefox - myths and facts?' - MARC

Yes, there'll always be different opinions. Also some opinions older too.

 

[escape]

DuckDuckGo (privacy matters).

 

[BaronBS]

Firefox and Vivaldi.
Would be nice to have a Vivaldi port.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

DuckDuckGo (privacy matters).

That's not a browser

 

[YYY__]

That's not a browser

It is. Not for Linux/FreeBSD.

 

[Alex Seitsinger]

i dont even browse the "internet" i only read what i want to read from where i wana read it and then i leave. who cares

 

[thedaemon]

Mothra > Links2 > Firefox.

this is the way. Mothra being on 9front (plan 9 os).

 

[meine]

www/luakit

keyboard control, no frills. www/qutebrowser is an as good alternative, also with vim-keybinds.

Firefox for government sites, banking and some webshops, because those sites work best or only work with 'known browsers'.

 

[blackhole]

DuckDuckGo (privacy matters).

Good luck.

Why People Should Never Ever Use DuckDuckGo

 

[tuxador]

Yesterday i saw a demo of a chromium fork called thorium and i am impressed.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

What is you preferred internet-browser?

I'm with Alexander88207:

Firefox

Second to Firefox, Thunderbird.

… e-mail client is an internet "browser" …

True enough, for many people.

BrowseInTab, for example. Unfortunately, not compatible with Thunderbird 115 (Supernova), and I have no expectation of a rewrite in the near future.

Alternatives exist, but not yet anything as user-friendly (simple) as BrowseInTab. Early days.

… www/seamonkey but it is not anymore in the ports collection due to some stuff I can't fathom …

Indirectly via <https://www.freshports.org/www/seamonkey/#history>:

www/seamonkey: remove port · freebsd/freebsd-ports@b603533

Upstream has poor history of delivering security fixes on time. 2.49.4 was released almost 1 year ago. While 2.49.5 with 60.2 backports is planned[1] it's at least 1 month away while ESR60 will...

github.com

Truth hurts, sometimes.

… As long as you stick to major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), the bulk of all mainstream web pages function correctly. …

True enough, although in many environments Microsoft 365 is mainstream …

The default pre-installed: …

Yesterday I provided tech support a student who had progressed form sixth form, to university. Microsoft OneNote content on his mobile device, from sixth form, cached and still offline, was not in OneNote on his Mac, so we used his default (Safari) to view the source of truth, online.

Safari drew a blank, so –

… Pragmatism.

– the student used Google Chrome to discover the truth on the Mac.

My pragmatic exceptions to Firefox include:

• qutebrowser for (amongst other things) compatibility with poudriere.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Thorium is a newer Chromium derivative ...

 

[thedaemon]

Indirectly via <https://www.freshports.org/www/seamonkey/#history>:

www/seamonkey: remove port · freebsd/freebsd-ports@b603533

Upstream has poor history of delivering security fixes on time. 2.49.4 was released almost 1 year ago. While 2.49.5 with 60.2 backports is planned[1] it's at least 1 month away while ESR60 will...

github.com

Truth hurts, sometimes.

I still use Seamonkey on Windows and love it. I don't care if it has security holes, it's a web 2.0 browser.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Fixed by thedaemon, this comment can be deleted.

 

[jmos]

As SeaMonkey always got security backports from the latest Firefox ESR over the last years it can be used by people that care about security

 

[thedaemon]

View attachment 17161

thedaemon please, did you mean to say that? Was it a slip of the finger?

----

I didn't say it. I do care about security.

Sorry, fixed! Slip of the finger.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Firefox, but it should … not go zombie ever.

For how long does the status persist?

Firefox processes going zombie, for a while, can be normal whilst Firefox invisibly quits. A screen recording: <https://photos.app.goo.gl/kuYGWnG1L4iftqiy9>.

 

[fernandel]

I have install www/qutebrowser, www/luakit and www/firefox. I am using the most first too and much less Firefox.
I test all 3 on browseraudit.com and got:

        Passed    Warning    Critical    Skipped
Firefox    398        30        0            3
Luakit     388        34        0            9
QuteB      399        32        0            0

I had enabled javascript on all 3 browsers.
All 3 browser work very good.

 

[nxjoseph]

I do use firefox in general and prefer using Brave in linuxulator for Netflix.

 

[bgavin]

My thoughts are staying with the big mainstream browsers.
I find more and more sites are refusing to load unless you are running the absolute latest and greatest browser version.
This tells me those sites will be unusable with a craft-brew browser instead of a mainstream one.

 

[dclau]

LibreWolf, for now.