Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:50:22 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox or what? Message-ID: <871rxq2mf5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <07ac40e0-ee37-8965-a65a-d4edb1ef8bbb@netfence.it> (Andrea Venturoli's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:54:27 %2B0200") References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> <07ac40e0-ee37-8965-a65a-d4edb1ef8bbb@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> writes: > On 8/12/19 5:37 PM, hw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does any of the Firefox versions that can be installed with pkg >> actually work? Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to >> remember its settings, to not show up at all when starting it other >> than in the process list, and it usually can't be killed even with >> kill -9. > > I'm using firefox-esr on 11.2/amd64 and I don't have so many problems > (although it sometimes hangs and I've incurred in a couple of bugs). I tried both the "normal" version and the esr version, it made no difference. > What FreeBSD version are you using? 12 release > Did you read pkg message? Yes, and it's strange that so many things are disabled. For this particular application, it's probably an advantage. > Other details on your system? Well, FreeBSDs NFS implementation is broken, see my previous post ... >> what's the alternative? > > Now, that's a good point; so far my dislike of FireFox is constantly > growing, by I failed to find an alternative. > What I tried: > > _ Chromium: while I just don't like it in general (and I don't like > FireFox more and more mimicking it), it's the OmniBar which make me > avoid it at all costs; > > _ PaleMoon: more or less worked (altough some sites refuse it), but > it's now gone like SeaMonkey; > > _ Falkon: seems quite light; unfortunately it hangs much more > frequently than FireFox (I'll try again after the upgrade to 11.3). > > > > If someone comes up with other options I might be glad to try them :) Maybe Opera? Does it have a decent adblocker?
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