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echo: rberrypi
to: FOLDEROL
from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2020-08-20 10:16:00
subject: Re: Lightweight Browser

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:40:11 +0100, Folderol wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:22:29 +0000 (UTC)
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>
>>Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:46:36 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, well you never said that you wanted webites to render correctly,
>>>> and that's a very significant requirement. You're limited to browsers
>>>> based on Chromium or Firefox because they're the only ones that
>>>> website developers bother to test with, and their browser engines are
>>>> both bloated and slow to my standards.
>>>
>>> Another that might fit the bill is Vivaldi - there is not a Debian ARM
>>> download for it.
>>
>>Based on Chromium according to the Wikipedia page. But the OP is
>>apparantly satisfied with it.
> Indeed, but the Vivaldi people have quietly picked out most of the crap.
>
>>They also now say that they're using a Pi4, so the true need for
>>efficiency probably isn't as great as it would be if they were using a
>>less powerful Pi model.
>
> Also runs 'reasonably' on a Pi3. I don't have any older ones.

Not exactly lightweight, but I was using PaleMoon, but that project seems
to have folded. I'm mostly using Brave now. Its fast and seems fairly
bugfree, though it has annoyances too, i.e. runs GoogleEarth but not
GoogleEarthPro because the socalled MIME (application vs extension) table
is inaccessable and they don't have a bug tracker, only an all-purpose
bulletin board.


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