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soo.. which browser should i use? they all suck in some way:
chome: lol
chromium: not as bad as chrome for privacy but is so dumbed down it hurts
vivaldi: 10/10 features but chome engine and ui is closed source
firefox: tries as hard as possible to be chrome. engine rewrite was really promising, but it's only gotten worse from that point.
brave: another chrome engine browser!!1
dillo: points for trying to be good, but webshit incompatible
netsurf: dito
$qtwebkit browser: outdated chrome engine
@bonifartius Pale Moon or Basilisk? Both use the Goanna engine.
@khird i actually really liked firefox right after they introduced the quantum engine. it was a real improvement. the browser itself has only gotten worse from then on. the biggest problem was the new plugin stuff. the rewritte tree style tabs loses tabs.. the plugin author isn't even to blame, they ported it really fast. the new plugin api is just shit.
i just don't really unterstand why the current gecko engine can't be made embeddable like chromes blink. that would really help the web.
@bonifartius Yeah the extensions are really what pushed me to ditch Firefox some years back. There's also Waterfox, which comes in Current or Classic flavours depending on whether you prioritise the Quantum engine (present in Current) or the old-style extensions (present in Classic). As far as I know the two are incompatible and mutually exclusive, so a browser that has both is not possible. It's Gecko on the backend too.
@khird thanks, will take a look at the waterfoxes!
@bonifartius eww for stuff with images, elinks for documentation, icecat for news articles, and firefox for web apps.
@swiley four different browsers sounds like i would go insane quickly :D
@bonifartius can you follow up post after your trials?
@jpaul if i remember to.. :)
@bonifartius
They are all lacking.
@bonifartius some additional points regarding netsurf #browser: it's really amazing, a modular html&css engine capable of rendering to many different output devices on many platforms. if webshit wasn't so dependant on javascript it would really be quite usable for normal usage.