What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

seanragout

Also, what do you think the likelihood of Microsoft's Edge browser ( new one based on chromium) being ported over to Linux?

Arrense

@Justin Honestly I use it cause I think tons of these browsers are just reinventing the wheel. Vivaldi seems really cool to tinker with but FF gets my work done, is customizable enough, and has the extensions I want (uMatrix, privacy badger etc.) It's also nice to be settled into a relatively stable and long standing piece of software and Firefox provides all that while being OSS.

eljondy

I'm surprised that brave have such a low number of votes

elfprince

eljondy I've never even heard of brave before now. Will check it out. Thanks!

brent

eljondy "I'm surprised that brave have such a low number of votes"

Tried it, for some reason I did not dig it. A feeling.

eljondy

elfprince since I started using brave I didn't look back, browsing is so smooth because it blocks all the crap out with the built in shield

aventu

Firefox, it looks great without title bar.
Solus is actually the first distro that I used where 144Hz truly works without annoying micro stutters.

My tweaks:
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_ ;200
layout.frame_rate;144
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.frame-rate;144
layers.acceleration.force-enabled;true

Fatih19

aventu How do you turn off the titlebar? It looks cool.

SOLUSfiddler

JoshStrobl
I have to add that FIREFOX means in my case only in private mode and a lot of the features on offer turned off.
I also kick out most of the default search engines, I only keep Startpage.com and, in case needed, Google and DuckDuckGo.

SOLUSfiddler

XerXes
Wouldn't touch anything googleistic like Chrome with a pair of tweezers!!

SOLUSfiddler

Justin
I use it because it's reliable, well supported, I can customize it to a great extent and there are a lot of add-ons (which I don't need).
It gets the job done and is quick.
Mind you, I have a powerful Thinkpad W530 helping me along the way.

SOLUSfiddler

eljondy
Well, thanks for the tip:
I tried to install BRAVE but couldn't.
It looked as if it got installed (in the Software Center) but it didn't show in the list of apps.
I couldn't run it from the terminal either.

Any idea what might have happened?

SOLUSfiddler

sangheeta

SOLUSfiddler
Have you tried log out/in, or restart your computer?

SOLUSfiddler

sangheeta
That did the trick, thanks!
I hadn't restarted my computer, but when I did the BRAVE icon was right there amongst the apps and started perfectly. Strange though that one should have to do that...

So, now I can test it for a while.

SOLUSfiddler

eljondy

SOLUSfiddler the work around for icons not disappearing in the menu is "pkill budgie-panel" from the terminal, quiker than log out and log in or restart

Jazzyboy1

Justin When Firefox isn't the default, I install it myself.

I use Firefox because:

I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
Almost all sites I use work fine on Firefox, or even better than on other browsers I've tried. The only site I've found any issues with is Homebrewery, which doesn't render properly on Firefox, but I just use Brave for that one site.
I find it easier to make Firefox look good than other browsers. I love how my Firefox installation looks and feels.
I've found Firefox just generally seems to work more smoothly than other browsers.
I've always used Firefox, and I just haven't really seen any major benefit to switching to another browser. I hate saying this, but well... 'it just works' 😅

harelt

JoshStrobl Good evening first of all I would like to know how I can install the latest beta version or the stable version of opera is the only browser that I like because it works perfectly on my computer and used firefox and consumes a lot of memory and chrome less than less is currently excessive consumption stable version of the opera is 60.0.3255.27 and I would like to install it in advance thank you very much and apologize if my English is not perfect I am using a translator thanks

Justin

harelt Open Software Centre search for Opera, install.

harelt

Justin I look for it by that means and it leaves a version 58.0.3135.90 of 07-Mar-2019 and already there is a new version 60.0.3255.27 of 09-Apr-2019 that is the one that I would like to install because if there was a way of oneself not is through the installation of debian packages do not say yo then that new version is very nice

Scotty-Trees

90% of the time Google Chrome
The other 10% is split between Firefox and Vivaldi.

I know I'm the monster that sleeps under your bed at night, but I like Chrome 😅

itsManjeet

Firefox : Solus
Chrome : Android

Nycticorax

Firefox on every platform except my 10' hybrid/convertible Windows 10 notebook, whose limited resources and touchscreen prefer Microsoft Edge over every alternative tried so far.

Harvey

harelt
It has not been updated on Solus yet. I have submitted the update, you'll have to wait for it to be approved, and make it's way to the stable repository. https://dev.getsol.us/D6023

harelt

Harvey to ok perfect many THANK YOU really grateful 😀 😄

harelt

Harvey good afternoon friend excuse the inconvenience because I could install the new version of the opera now see that they already have to take another 2 or 3 versions more new that and installed and I was researching and if I mistake not a tool called solbuild this new system will allow to create packages solus in a fast and easy way with this I can transform this new version of opera from the formato.deb to eopkg and install it using the terminal to update you web browser ?? Thank you very much in advance

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