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The long expected, and often dreaded, Australis user interface for Firefox will have become fact a couple weeks from now. For those of us who don't immediately jump back to the last ESR build without it, rage quit web browsing entirely, start using lynx in protest, or just say fork it, Martin Brinkmann over at Ghacks has an interesting writeup on further UI changes being proposed. The only thing I found interesting are the changes proposed for the context menu but, as always, your mileage may vary.
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I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!!
(Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Monday April 21 2014, @01:53AM
What are some other good web browsers for Linux? Firefox used to be the small and light version of Seamonkey, but these days it seems like we need a small and light version of Firefox. And with the Mozilla foundation bumping up the major version number every other day, adding their enormous JavaScript PDF engine that nearly crashes my computer, recently getting into politics, and apparently now changing the UI, I really want to find an alternative. (I will admit that my computer is grievously underpowered for 2014, but I don't want to buy a new computer just so that I can try to use JavaScript to display PDFs.)
I have been using Gecko-based browsers for over a decade now, from Netscape to Mozilla to Firefox, but I am willing to try other rendering engines. I briefly tried Chromium and Opera, but I found them both to be frustrating to use. Maybe I should give them another chance.
I tried using Konqueror, but I couldn't even get the damn search bar to work (it keeps switching back to Google, and if I hit enter or click search, nothing happens). Maybe something is screwed up in my KDE configuration, but even if I can fix it, is Konqueror worth using? The last time I tried it was several years ago, but it seemed like quite a few web pages would not render properly.
I guess I'll try Seamonkey, and hope that it doesn't follow Firefox down the path to madness.
On top of all that, I would really like to have Ghostery or a similar extension. Are there any good (graphical) Linux browsers out there that I have overlooked?
(Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Monday April 21 2014, @02:00AM
Now browsing this discussion some more, linuxrocks123 informs me that Pale Moon has an unofficial build for Linux. I may have to try that one.
(Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Monday April 21 2014, @02:12AM
And now, having read the rest of the comments here, I need to look at Midori [midori-browser.org] too.
[Score: -1, replying to myself too often]
(Score: 1) by petecox on Monday April 21 2014, @02:40AM
rekonq is KDE's webkit based browser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @03:28AM
other good web browsers for Linux?[...]small and light
For the adventurous, here's a seed that will find pretty much everything available:
Lynx+eLinks+Dillo+NetSurf+dwb [google.com]
You sound like you want it to Just Work(tm) out of the box, so you can eliminate a bunch that are text-only, sans JS, etc.
I would really like to have Ghostery or a similar extension
That limits things a lot.
Seamonkey
That name is written in CamelCase: SeaMonkey.
I think you'll be pleased with the direct descendant of the original Mozilla.
-- gewg_