Quoting Craig Sanders ([email protected]): > I gave up on flash / youtube / other videos in firefox/iceweasel > ages ago. mostly because i don't want to enable all the scripting > that video sites "require" on my main browser. recent versions of > iceweasel in experimental have great support for HTML5 videos but I > still don't want to watch videos in my primary browser. > > instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome. > this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone > linux version which works with firefox). Watching youtube etc videos > is pretty much the only thing i use Chromium for, so i'm not too worried > about the tracking spyware. > > I use the adblock and NotScripts plugins for chromium, so javascript > is disabled on sites by default unless I turn it on. > > BTW, i use yet another browser (Midori) for facebook, which > (unfortunately) is the only way i can keep in touch with some > friends....and, again, I never use that browser for anything else. Of > course, I enable the adblock plugin for midori too.
The logic of this approach is compelling. Nothing like total process separation among multiple browsers for preventing cross-site tracking. > i also use epiphany (ugh!).... As penance? You must have been very bad. ;-> Every five or so years, I look around to see what Linux graphical Web browsers exist, alongside Firefox[/Iceweasel] Chromium/Chrome, and Konqueror. My latest survey is comically out of date, and can be seen here: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#linuxbrowser Of those, I see these are still around: http://conkeror.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (bloatware alert!) http://www.dillo.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/brx/ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web (ex-Epiphany, now called 'Web' - GNOME brain-damage alert!) http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ (FSF religion alert!) http://www.twotoasts.de/?/pages/midori_summary.html (but you have that one) https://code.google.com/p/arora/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/ (no releases for 5 years) https://rekonq.kde.org/ http://www.opera.com/computer (proprietary) http://getswiftfox.com (proprietary) ...just in case you wanted a dozen or more additional Linux graphical browsers to play with. -- Cheers, A Spanish todo list has everything. Rick Moen -- Matt Watson (@biorhythmist) [email protected] McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
