On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:21:13AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:39:56PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:34:50PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Are there other Devuan-packaged lightweight browsers anyone might > > > recommend? I may switch to chromium, but I doubt that it's > > > lightweight. > > > > If you don't mind minimal stuff (i.e., a browser that just browse the > > WWW and downloads files on request), then surf+tabbed is a very good > > and stable solution. Here are the links: > > > > http://surf.suckless.org/ > > http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ > > Uhm, no. It doesn't have even the most necessary basics, like ad blocking. > Seriously, how can one humanly browse when 2/3 of the screen is full of > flashing crap, not to mention all security and privacy issues? >
You can have ad-blocking, if you want: http://surf.suckless.org/files/adblock-hosts The truth is that if you want to keep a browser light you should let it exclusively browse. All the rest should be handled in a proper way by proper tools, working together in the old unix-style. > > I say "security" despite a first-party site having same or more > capabilities to exploit an unpatched issue than a third-party element, but > in practice, the chances https://slashdot.org or https://devuan.org would > run an attack are a wee bit less than a random sleazy ad peddler. > > surf enforces TLS by default. You have to recompile if you want to disable it. It also supports socks5 proxies, even through a simple "ssh -D ...". BTW, Hendrik asked for a "light" solution, and I suggested the one I have found after years of frustration with the late Mozilla & Co. I understand very well though that nowadays we are used to have full-featured operating systems as browsers, so that "light" might actually mean very different things to different people :) My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
