Re: Frustration made me do it.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:09:05 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20101120185835.2915d9d3.celejar@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote:
> >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:43 -0600
> >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> >> Much of the memory usage can be blamed on aggressive per-tab caching of
> >> webpages and/or extensions or plugins. Still, I find FF to cause me more
> >> problems than my other browser options, but having it around is essential
> >> for some sites, it seems.
> >>
> >> I still prefer konqueror, or chromium-browser if konqueror doesn't work on
> >> a certain site. Still, I find myself using FF + ABP on a few
> >> flash-ad-ridden sites.
> >
> >I have resisted installing konq, since I don't use KDE, and I have a
> >perhaps irrational resistance to installing that first KDE package that
> >will drag in all sorts of KDE libs and stuff.
>
> Maybe it is irrational, but I don't really see a good reason to use Konq if
> you don't use KDE. I've used KDE since 3.3, and enjoy the level of
> integration. If you don't benefit from the integration, it's just an aging
> browser, though there is on-going work to make it more modern without losing
> the integration.
So that's pretty much what I felt.
> There are other WebKit-based browsers besides Chromium out there and there are
> other Gecko-based browsers besides FireFox / IceWeasel out there. By
> experimenting you may find one that is less bad for you than FireFox.
>
> Finally, if you need a browser that doesn't cost anything, even if it is not
> Free Software, Opera is supposed to be fairly good, and I think they even have
> .debs available. I used it as my primary browser before switching to Linux
> (and mostly Free Software) and I actually found it much more usable than both
> IE6 and whatever Mozilla product was available at the time.
I'm not a FLOSS fanatic, but I'd prefer FLOSS, and I'd really rather
not install stuff from outside the Debian repos where possible.
Celejar
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