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Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:55 pm
by Stevo
Awww...not much love for Pale Moon, for which I maintain the MX packages from source with increasing difficulty.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 3:40 pm
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.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 6:40 pm
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.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:07 am
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.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:34 am
by danux
Thank you for the links.
Why not to use Bleachbit?
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:27 am
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.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:44 am
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)?
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:19 am
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!?
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:18 am
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.
Re: Brave or any other browser besides Firefox....
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:34 am
by Eadwine Rose
There is Freetube.