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jeffreyC,
Their contact and privacy links open up to non sequiturs – suspicious, like donate with bitcoin, etc.
Also, didn't bother reading, but most reddit comments were very bad.

Hi,

today I noticed a big drawback of brave-browser: it seems to be a single-threaded application.
I had a major file copy action going on and the browser was blocked for several seconds at a time.
Most of the CPU cores were bored in the meantime.

I want to throw in Midori. It's using the Gecko engine like Firefox and I am really surprised how slick and fast it has become. Will likely be my No 1 from now in.

Regards
Stephan

karlchen wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:58 pm I have got some doubts that a machine from 2013 will profit from using a kernel 6.1.0 instead of the MC 21.3 default kernel 5.10.0.

But will it benefit from using the older kernel of 5.10.0 of mx 21.3?
I am pretty happy with mx 23.1. Did not really encounter more than a few problems

It was either the 6.0 or 6.1 that mods and devs were suggesting avoiding.

I don't want to derail karlchen or siamhie, but couldn't you just try the 5.10 kernel and either switch or delete it if it doesn't improve anything?

siamhie wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:45 pm

GenesisHyperstrike wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:24 pm If privacy-focused browser is needed, then one can go with LibreWolf as well. It is Firefox fork, but comes with enhanced protection by default.

Though only thing which I don't like about this browser is that it doesn't opens in full-screen unlike other browsers.

1. Disable resistFingerprinting (settings>LibreWolf)
or
2. open about:config and change these two values (privacy.window.maxInnerWidth) (privacy.window.maxInnerHeight)

Thank you very much for clarifying my confusion and hence the mistake related to LibreWolf.

dotw wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:39 am I have used firefox ESR on my mx 23.1 ...

I use firefox120.0b5 on my mx 21.3 :
=> https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#From_Mozilla_binaries
After Download from
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/c ... ktop/#beta
I have uncompress the archive in the /opt directory.

forest_bear59 wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2023 4:36 am I want to throw in Midori. It's using the Gecko engine like Firefox and I am really surprised how slick and fast it has become. Will likely be my No 1 from now in.

Regards
Stephan

The version in the Debian repos for Debian 10 (MX-19) and Debian 11 (MX-21) is 7.0 which is ancient, the current release version is 11.0.
The deb for Midori 11.0 from their website will not install in MX-21.
There is no Midori browser release in the repos for Debian 12 (MX-23).

Many times the age of the software does not really matter, but browsers need to keep up with the web and security.

Oh, I didn't test the installation of Midori in MX-21. I have installed it in MX-23, running on a ThinkPad T400.
I do agree with You that browsers are a software type where only the most actual versions should be used.

Regards
Stephan

On the MX-23 Brave it is very heavy. So I didn't use it. But I decided to test Iron Browser again, very light!

Iron Browser
https://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=62841
If you have a distribution with an older Kernel:
BEFORE YOU LAUNCH, PLEASE RUN:
cd [Insert your Iron directory here...]
sudo chown root chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-wrapper
Launch with ./chrome-wrapper

Also checkout the Iron Config & BackupTool:
cd [Insert your Iron directory here...]
sudo chmod +x IronConfigBackup
./IronConfigBackup