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Re: Browsers in Lite
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2017, 06:00:17 PM »
 

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Hi Steve,

Haven't tried seamonkey in many years, at least 5.
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Re: Browsers in Lite
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2017, 04:26:30 PM »
 

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There is another of the "too bloated" comments about Firefox. Thanks, bayoubooger. I noticed you said you "liked Seamonkey". Would you say Seamonkey is a better and faster browser than Firefox?
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Re: Browsers in Lite
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2017, 04:24:02 PM »
 

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Thanks for your reply, elelme. I don't see that the fact you've only been with Lite a few weeks is a problem. I'm just wondering what others have tried and/or are using. Vivaldi and Midori are two that I found doing 'Net research. I read as much as I could on each one. Vivaldi seemed to be a more popular alternative than Midori.

I also found and read a bit on SlimJet. While it's not real popular at this point, it seems to be garnering more attention all the time. At least that's what I was able to gather. I saw some advantages I liked with the SlimJet browser.

As for Seamonkey, that is an option I already had in the back of my head. I've used Seamonkey in the past and don't have any real problems with it. I don't think it's as fast a browser as maybe Vivaldi or SlimJet. Installing it isn't a problem. You just have to download the latest release, then decompress the tarball, and run using the ./seamonkey command. You can easily setup a launcher using the directory name followed by "seamonkey", without the quotes.

Seamonkey is actually pretty high on my list of possibles due to it also having a mail client and WYSIWYG website creator. My days of coding are over. Any website I happen to create in the future will be via some type of WYSIWYG editor. I might add a couple lines of code here or there, but all out coding is a thing of the past for me.

Thanks for offering your input!
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Re: Browsers in Lite
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2017, 04:11:26 PM »
 

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have used them all and I use chrome for convenience and don't worry about them tracking me. I don't use subversive websites, Liked seamonkey and comodo dragon. Firefox got to bloated for me.
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Re: Browsers in Lite
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2017, 03:49:40 PM »
 

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Steve,
  I started, of course, with Firefox, and may go back to the improved version that is coming, or
so I have heard. Meanwhile, having used ChromeOS, I avoided the Chromium browser and instead
went to Vivaldi, which has been a pleasant experience. Have used Midori, but now it seems out of
date. Also used Qupzilla, but it, too, seems out of date. What about SeaMonkey? Can't seem to find
it in Synaptic.
  Note that I have only been weeks with Linux Lite and have a lot to learn....
 

Browsers in Lite
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2017, 02:59:13 PM »
 

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I just finished doing some searching for discussions about web browsers in Lite. I found a few, but none were exactly what I was looking for, and several of them were pretty dated. I hope this is the correct place to post this. If not, somebody tell me and I'll try and do better.

I have seen more than one comment on the forum about problems with Firefox and a few of you have expressed discontent with how big and bloated Firefox has become. I hold that thought myself. I went through it with Netscape, Firefox, and several Linux distros. Each of them became bigger and more bloated with every update.

So what I'd like to see is which browsers some of you are using and why you chose that specific browser over others. I know that what I'd really like to find is a browser that is lightweight, is fast, offers Flash and Java, and also a few extensions like an ad blocker and a really good download manager. Right now I have Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, and Password Exporter extensions on Firefox.

So, what's your favorite, and why?
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