Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Mihai Popescu wrote: Go to Windows only then, it is a simple choice. You make me laugh: you don't touch Chromium because it is from Google, but you are using Gmail! I don't like it but it has its uses. In this case I was using it to test because it is a heavily interactive page and does

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Chuck Burns wrote: On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:08:36 PM Mihai Popescu wrote: Actually, I can somewhat understand his reaction. Let's not be so quick to judge here. Yes, many windows-primary web browsers -DO- seem to be less-than-capable under Unix. Thanks. I just did a quick and dirty

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-26 Thread Zoran Kolic
Do not want to interfare into os discussion. Just want to ask about status of uzbl browser in packages? It was there some time ago. Then disappeared. I use it on my freebsd nodes and find it just perfect for my needs. Best regards all Zoran

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-26 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hi, I don't like it but it has its uses. In this case I was using it to test because it is a heavily interactive page and does not load ads that may require flash. To test what? A browser? I gave a quick comparison about memory usage between Windows and FreeBSD, that was an informal test

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, a rant about browser is almost justified, they are currently the among the worst piece of software installed on your computer. Unfortuantely, with today's Cloud IT scenario, also quite necessary. Most people wrote that it is a memory/CPU issue. The CPU is at most a problem of speed with

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-25 Thread Todd Zimmermann
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Attempting to translate because apparently I enjoy pain... Basically you are saying Windoze XP/7 whatever rock? - Sent from my truly ancient AMD modem via an apparently defective Chromium browser Oh crap it's

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Todd Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Attempting to translate because apparently I enjoy pain... Basically you are saying Windoze XP/7 whatever rock? - Sent from my truly ancient AMD modem via an apparently defective

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
I feel your sarcasm, but really if it comes to browser stability and resource usage, then yes... Windows XP/7 are better than my Unix boxen! I'm not speaking about anything else, nor do I say browsing is impossible on BSD. I just make a comparison being a heavy day-work browser user. Go to

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-25 Thread Chuck Burns
On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:08:36 PM Mihai Popescu wrote: I feel your sarcasm, but really if it comes to browser stability and resource usage, then yes... Windows XP/7 are better than my Unix boxen! I'm not speaking about anything else, nor do I say browsing is impossible on BSD. I

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
ok, how do I put this nicely... To run a modern browser, you need a modern computer. 1.5GB RAM and a celeron processor doesn't cut it. Nick Moving towards a modern computers one will have problems with supported hardware. Maybe some desktops are ok, but what can you do about laptops. There

The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Hello Everybody. Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD user, I never had any problem with OpenBSD itself, besides may be 2 or three times. It is impressive. Every other system I use gives

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/23/14 10:30, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello Everybody. Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD user, I never had any problem with OpenBSD itself, besides may be 2 or three times. It

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Timo Myyrä
23.8.2014 17:31, Gregory Edigarov kirjoitti: Hello Everybody. Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD user, I never had any problem with OpenBSD itself, besides may be 2 or three times. It is

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 08/23/14 10:30, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello Everybody. Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD user,

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On 08/23/14 19:59, Amit Kulkarni wrote: That is your problem...memory You will definitely see better performance with more memory. I use Pentium G2020 with 8GB of memory and the performance is good for browsing/occasional video with daily restart. Tweak the follwoing variables in

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Stefan Berger
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: However I have a different problem. I use firefox over ssh to another user on the same system. I do this because I don't want a would-be attacker to get to sensitive files such as my ssh keys. Now this setup runs pretty good,

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Zeljko Jovanovic
On 23.08.2014. 18:16, Nick Holland wrote: real mem = 1568260096 (1495MB) avail mem = 1517772800 (1447MB) ... cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G530 @ 2.40GHz, 2394.94 MHz ok, how do I put this nicely... To run a modern browser, you need a modern