Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

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Stevo
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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#11 Post by Stevo »

Awww...not much love for Pale Moon, for which I maintain the MX packages from source with increasing difficulty.
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The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#12 Post by dreamer »

Stevo wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:55 pm Awww...not much love for Pale Moon, for which I maintain the MX packages from source with increasing difficulty.
I don't really use Pale Moon anymore. Nothing wrong with the browser, but they had some problems with Cloudflare tightening the screws and thus making life more difficult for small browsers.
I didn't like their move to AVX, because I think their biggest strength is low-end computers. They have a unique advantage being single process and consuming less RAM because of it. Now, because of AVX they have higher minimum required specs than Chrome and company. Doesn't make sense to me. I'll keep it installed as long as SSE2 builds are available.

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#13 Post by Bamber »

Stevo wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:55 pm Awww...not much love for Pale Moon, for which I maintain the MX packages from source with increasing difficulty.
Keep the good work mate, I find Pale Moon one of the few corners of sanity in today's digital.

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#14 Post by Stevo »

dreamer wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 3:40 pm
Stevo wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:55 pm Awww...not much love for Pale Moon, for which I maintain the MX packages from source with increasing difficulty.
I don't really use Pale Moon anymore. Nothing wrong with the browser, but they had some problems with Cloudflare tightening the screws and thus making life more difficult for small browsers.
I didn't like their move to AVX, because I think their biggest strength is low-end computers. They have a unique advantage being single process and consuming less RAM because of it. Now, because of AVX they have higher minimum required specs than Chrome and company. Doesn't make sense to me. I'll keep it installed as long as SSE2 builds are available.
Since I compile Pale Moon from source code for our repositories, the packages in MX main are all SSE2. You have to upgrade to the AVX build in the test repo to get that feature (i.e., just upgrade the amd64 palemoon from test). This also means I have been able to provide i386, armhf, and arm64 native builds, which are no longer supported by the official Pale Moon binaries.
MXPI = MX Package Installer
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The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#15 Post by danux »

Pretty Vacant wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 4:34 am
django013 wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 11:59 pm respect to resource hog:
When I start brave, it tells me, that it saved me 6,6 GB downloading rubbish and saved me 3,5 hours waiting for bull.sh.it ...
Better not believe that info. When using Brave use these settings https://www.privacyguides.org/en/deskto ... ers/#brave and UBO and a whole lot of crap wont be downloaded.
And https://www.kuketz-blog.de/einstellungen/#brave-desktop

UBO https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browse ... ock-origin

For FF https://www.privacyguides.org/en/deskto ... s/#firefox
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/brave-und-fi ... er-teil-2/

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

Better not use Bleachbit.
Thank you for the links.
Why not to use Bleachbit?

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#16 Post by Artim »

Ungoogled-chromium, when used with antiX / MX ad blocker (a hosts file so no ads are downloaded, less cache to clear) is every bit as nimble and quick as any browser. I use it instead of Brave now. I played with Midori as well, but it's still got issues and lacks features.

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#17 Post by danux »

Mybe the following question relates also to this topic of Browsers:
What and how many browsers to use for privacy compartmentalization? For example
- Chromium for gmail, google translate, youtube
- librewolf for other websites accounts, apart Google, like forum.mxlinux.org
- maybe another browser for browsing the internet, or it is not necessary (can be used one of the above)?

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#18 Post by Pretty Vacant »

danux wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:44 am Mybe the following question relates also to this topic of Browsers:
What and how many browsers to use for privacy compartmentalization? For example
- Chromium for gmail, google translate, youtube
...
Looking for privacy safety and at the same time use all that google crap??? Not sure what you are about!?
MX-23.5_x64 Libretto- xfce

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#19 Post by danux »

Pretty Vacant wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:19 am
danux wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:44 am Mybe the following question relates also to this topic of Browsers:
What and how many browsers to use for privacy compartmentalization? For example
- Chromium for gmail, google translate, youtube
...
Looking for privacy safety and at the same time use all that google crap??? Not sure what you are about!?
Don't you use Youtube, or Gmail? Maybe one can get rid of Gmail, but Youtube? This is a hard one.

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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....

#20 Post by Eadwine Rose »

There is Freetube.
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