A few days back I had posted about difficulties with sites that do not work with firefox and you have no option but to deal with them.
I had toyed with the idea of qemu-microcore linux-chromium, which nearly worked but failed due to X11 difficulties, besides being terribly slow. Old thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/netbsd-users@netbsd.org/msg05448.html I checked with webmasters' of one such site. They say it should work with IE and chromium. Also claimed it works with firefox, though in reality I found it not working with www/firefox38. May be it does with some other firefox version (not necessarily newer!). [ An aside: firefox rapid release philosophy seems to have its pros and cons. Each new release may carry a risk of stopping functioning with some site or the other. And I am not necessarily suggesting that's a fault of firefox. To complicate life, web developers continually keep changing their js code and test things only for "popular" browsers as they perceive. pkgsrc is doing the right thing by retaining past firefox-nn releases. But how many such releases would it maintain and I am curious how would pkgsrc maintainers decide which ones to maintain and which ones to not. ] Afterwards I tried www/opera, which, too, failed to work with some sites. It was found to be terribly slow as well. Then I tried www/netsurf. It appeared quite fast, but it, too, failed to work with some sites. Finally tried www/midori and found it working satisfactorily for such websites where above options failed. While still awaiting native/linux emulated build of chromium on NetBSD, I thought of sharing that midori might be a stop gap arrangement for users facing issues. Of course YMMV. [This was all on NetBSD 7 amd64.] Mayuresh.
