Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-11 Thread tom
On Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:21:06 + chillfan--- via Dng wrote: > Indeed there is Icecat that is DRM free. > > Iceweasel-UXP just covers some more of the criteria of what people > would consider less frustrating or is closer to a real fork since > they change things at the code level. > > It

Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread chillfan--- via Dng
Indeed there is Icecat that is DRM free. Iceweasel-UXP just covers some more of the criteria of what people would consider less frustrating or is closer to a real fork since they change things at the code level. It would be interesting if there was a version of Icecat based on Iceweasel-UXP.

Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno venerdì 05/04/2019 13:50:03 + chill...@protonmail.com ha scritto: > Might potentially be a solution if anyone did decide to package another > browser to try to solve the problem, since it comes from the hyperbola > project. Another is the GNU/IceCat browser: - IceCat project

Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread chillfan--- via Dng
Might potentially be a solution if anyone did decide to package another browser to try to solve the problem, since it comes from the hyperbola project. They follow a "when it's ready" release cycle afaik which probably means they have patches of their that can be applied, making things a

Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread chillfan--- via Dng
The problems as I see them are: Browsers either have DRM or they are bloated with features some don't expect to be there and are no modularity at all. Sometimes you can disable a feature but not remove it. The alternatives are often not packaged by Debian, so if they don't have it then we'd

[DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:06:14AM +, chillfan--- via Dng wrote: > > There are many of us frustrated with web browsers and the web in general, Is there anything that can be done about this? Browsers seem to be an all-or-nothing kind of nonmodularity. Yet they should have components that