On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:09:05 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <20101120185835.2915d9d3.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:43 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@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 -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101121210413.4088244d.cele...@gmail.com
