On 27/05/17 18:21, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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.)
>
Right. I may have to give it a whirl.

Shame. I been a Netscape man since Mosaic days


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