On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:37:22 +0100 KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is this really a solution? Then the most principled approach is > probably to stop using Firefox altogether. Assuming you mean people should choose not to use Firefox, rather than Devuan choosing not to provide it, I agree. I stopped using Firefox for the same reason I stopped using KDE and Gnome and Nautilus and Kmail: It's a pig. > Seriously, we are not > forced to swallow any crap they want to shovel down our throat. I wish more people would understand the preceding concept. > In the > quest to beat IE and then to chase up Chrome, Firefox has become a > *hog*, which is able to do a thousand and more different things (in > most cases quite badly), and also happens to render HTML pages every > now and then. It also has the ability to bring your whole OS to its knees. > I have been quite happy with surf lately. Surf's nice if you remember the hotkeys. Don't forget using surf with tabbed, too. Here are some docs I wrote on surf and tabbed: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/surf.htm > I only need firefox for the > rare case in which I need to access a few javascript-intensive > (crappy) websites for work reasons. And I am actively looking for an > alternative there. I use Chromium for that kind of thing. Yeah, it's a pig, and yeah, I dislike the vendor that supplies it, but it's most likely to render an arbitrary website. I quit using Palemoon after their lawyer sabre rattling, but qupzilla does a reasonable job. > > Computing does not need to be like that. Things can still be done > properly. I think the Devuan list is one of the few places you can say things like the preceding two sentences. SteveT Steve Litt April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
