> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:27:57 -0500 > From: Alan Feuerbacher <alan...@comcast.net> > To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Lots of problems with Firefox > > On 12/4/2013 6:44 AM, akhiezer wrote: > > > More discussion via e.g. google 'firefox disable javascript', seemingly incl > > that perhaps it'll make a reappearance in ff24. > > > > (I stopped using ff quite a long time ago, other than occasionally within a > > VM). > > Why did you stop using ff, and what do you use now? >
Usage: ~65% : seamonkey (browser only). ~30% : links (txt- & gfc- modes). ~3% : lynx. ~2% : ff (and several other browsers, incl safari, ie, chrome) in VMs. Why 'stop': it's more that it never really stuck. Been using the seamonkey lineage from mosaic thru netscape-navigator thru mozilla-suite then seamonkey: other browsers have been used in parallel - and some for quite a number of years (e.g. ff, konqueror) - then fell away again. Was already back down to ~~20% ff usage, when the 'whalesong and joss-sticks, strategy-boutique' brigade started rearing their heads at ff: and I'm not interested in hitching much if anything to that kind of wagon; and so progressively lost interest in putting much effort - although I still keep half an eye on what they're up to (mainly release notes and changelogs) - into actively dealing with, or generally expending resources on, the likes of ff and their ilk; approx same level as for microsoft and apple. With seamonkey, don't have any problems with the [no smart comments please] wide range of 'net sites and functionality that typically use - incl online banking, shopping - or with quite heavy usage (e.g. 5 windows with ~~ 30 - 150 tabs per window - usually got bunches of stuff on the go in parallel, with some areas backburnered.) As for 'links', tend to use it for anything excepting bank/shopping: just never tried the latter with 'links', as more-or-less always only do bank/shopping/some-other-types-of-logins from a partic machine and os and browser. Btw, although only use the browser part of seamonkey now, have used the email client & address book components quite a lot in the past (since netscape, and in parallel with mailx). Never really ever used the web-editor (vi + specs are plenty) or the chat components. However, do know of quite a few folks who do use various subsets of the mail/address-book/composer/chat parts: they're software that do the job, update sensibly and un-obnoxiously, and not prone to being stomped on from upstream. hth, akh > Alan > > -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
