On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 12:18 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 26.10.2013 12:01, Reco a écrit : > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:41:57 +0200 > > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > >> No free alternative can allow me to use things > >> the way I want: firefox lacks lot of features opera have, gnash is > >> just > >> useless in practice for streaming, nouveau does not give me full 3D > >> acceleration, and there are simply no free wifi drivers. > > > > Why do you consider, say, ath9k drivers non-free? > > What are those wonderful features that opera has, and firefox doesn't > > (inability to render pages correctly, which is the case of opera > > doesn't count)? > > > > Reco > > At the time I switched, there was a far better support for SVG in > opera. 3 years ago. It was the only browser able to render html into > svg, which is standard. I do not know about what inability to render > correctly you are speaking: I have seen that statement several times, > but never noticed the problem myself. And I do not think it is because > webdev try opera, those who does are probably minority, since opera is > not a mainstream browser, at least for desktop. > > Also, you can disable JS/plugins/cookies and other stuff on a per-site > basis, unlike Firefox. I mean, without plug-ins, of course. This is very > useful nowadays, with all those sites using JS for everything and > nothing. > Then, mouse gesture. I use them a lot, for web browsing. Better > about:config interface (in fact, better configuration interface overall, > but for other options it's a matter of taste. For about:config, it > simply can not be discussed). And various minor details here and there. > I retried firefox several times, I never kept it. > I do not mean that firefox is not usable as it is, simply that my > choice go for opera because it have all features I need out of the box. > > For wifi drivers, you are right, I forgot that there are some which are > free.
JFTR I switched to QupZilla as my "main browser". I've got Opera installed too and I even have got Chrome installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382783404.656.143.camel@archlinux
