On 2017-05-27, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 27/05/17 10:39, druck wrote:
>
>> On 27/05/2017 02:38, bob prohaska wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Gabriel  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you want to run directly on the Pi, terminal windows are no
>>>> problem. Modern web browser is too big to run with any performance.
>>>> Some of the cut-down browsers will perform better, but will not
>>>> provide a modern experience, will not handle some web sites
>>>> properly, and will feel old.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I must respectfully disagree. The chromimum port offered
>>> for raspberry pi runs very nicely on a pi 3.
>>
>> I concur, Chromium runs very nicely. I switched over to it on my Pi2 &
>> Pi3 (as well as slower x86 boxes) as Firefox became far too slow a
>> couple of versions ago.
>
> on my *86 Firefox often locks up with 'script not responding' - never
> used to.
>
> Anyone tried sea monkey?

I dumped Firefox for Seamonkey back at release 29, when Firefox changed
its user interface in ways I didn't like.  I've seen no reason to change
since.  (Disclaimer: this is for X86_64.)

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