Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-03-10 04:03, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Sorry, sorry, I'm ranting again! I promise I'll keep it to browsers. There are plenty of other threads we_could_ create. I use Firefox. Why? Because I use Thunderbird and I'd rather not load WebKit for another purpse. What I mean is I want to keep m

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-11 Thread Joe Zien
Zenaan Harkness wrote: I need a "sane" webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since then, as far as I can tell. Seeking

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:03:53PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I need a "sane" webbrowser. > > Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, > Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany > was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/11/13, Karl E. wrote: > On 10/03/13 01:03:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> I need a "sane" webbrowser. >> ... >> * Epiphany >> Epiphany. How I loved epiphany back in the days of Gnome 2 and >> Firefox >> 3.5, when I took a walk on the wild side of Ubuntu, and settled in on >> Ubuntu 8.04. >> Fir

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Karl E.
Hi On 10/03/13 01:03:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I need a "sane" webbrowser. > > ... > > What I've tried: > ... > * Epiphany > Epiphany. How I loved epiphany back in the days of Gnome 2 and > Firefox > 3.5, when I took a walk on the wild side of Ubuntu, and settled in on > Ubuntu 8.04. > Firef

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox > with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It > also doesn't update constantly either. Technically, it does not combine them; rather FF a

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> try seamonkey (mozilla-branch) i use it to my needs (browsing and mailing) > for years without any trouble. Thanks guys, I forgot about seamonkey. Found iceape. Will give it a try. Very much appreciate the pointer/reminder, Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread steef
Zenaan Harkness schreef: I need a "sane" webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since then, as far as I can tell. Seeki

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It also doesn't update constantly either. --- jude Microsoft, windows is ac

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/10/13, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Update: >> >> * Google Chromium .. >> Only downer is: does not integrate with "standard (XFCE) style >> desktop/windows theme - ie Windows XP style windows theme. Chromium >> seems rather stuck on its

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Update: > > * Google Chromium > This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes > problem of iceweasel/firefox. > Performance is fine on my modern laptop. > Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. > Has private browsing mode. I'm h

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Update: * Google Chromium This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes problem of iceweasel/firefox. Performance is fine on my modern laptop. Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. Has private browsing mode. I'm hoping proxy settings are remembered. Only downer is: does not integrate