Re: choice of web browsers

2021-10-31 Thread songbird
riveravaldez wrote: ... > $ dpigs -n2 -SH > 287.7M linux-signed-amd64 > 195.4M firefox-esr > > ;) things be different at this machine: $ dpigs -n8 -SH 499.3M linux 359.6M golang-1.16 357.8M linux-signed-amd64 325.8M libreoffice 292.4M qemu 273.7M rustc 213.1M python3.9 203.5M firefox

Re: choice of web browsers

2021-10-30 Thread riveravaldez
On Friday, October 29, 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > kaye n wrote: >> Maybe you're right about Firefox. Any "light" browsers you can recommend? > > The problem with web browsers is that they are basically a > second operating system for computers. > > (The great thing about web browsers is that they

Re: choice of web browsers

2021-10-29 Thread Christian Britz
At 29.10.21 Dan Ritter wrote: > and then the heavies: > > chromium > firefox I was a long time user of Mozilla based browsers (Netscape -> Mozilla Suite -> SeaMonkey -> Firefox) but lately I found Chromium based browsers faster and more appealing. Beat me, but I even prefer Chrome above Chromi

Re: choice of web browsers

2021-10-29 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 29 October 2021 09:10:29 am Dan Ritter wrote: > You can substantially improve the memory usage and speed of > firefox by installing the extension ublock Origin. Thanks for posting this, I've installed it and reviewed a fair amount of the docs. It looks to be truly useful... -- Mem

choice of web browsers

2021-10-29 Thread Dan Ritter
kaye n wrote: > Maybe you're right about Firefox. Any "light" browsers you can recommend? The problem with web browsers is that they are basically a second operating system for computers. (The great thing about web browsers is that they are a nearly-universal operating system.) The lightest we