I keep seeing all these browser threads talking about how "shit" modern browsers are. One thing that is lacking is an explanation as to what a "good" browser looks like. Can someone please describe a good browser should do? I'm genuinely curious as to what the general consensus is.
I keep seeing all these browser threads talking about how "shit" modern browsers are...
Blake Allen
Jaxon Hernandez
Must not send information to google/mozilla/anywhere other than the website you connected to (see: what browsers are for).
Good plugin support, no retard pandering by forbidding certain kinds of plugins like firefox does now.
Renders pages fast, and doesn't use shitton of memory.
Doesn't come bundled with shit that does not belong to a web browser, such as how mozilla tries to shoehorn chat applications and whatever bullshit into firefox.
Customizeable UI.
Easton Morris
qutebrowser would be so close if it had more plugins. mostly umatrix. though youtube doesn't work in it for me
Jonathan Robinson
I'd say that the problem lies with the World Wide Web more than with browsers. People are desparate to bolt on extras to HTML and CSS to try and make websites that act like apps, and they were never made for that. The result is a mess of Javascript, and is hard to deal with no matter how nice your browser is.
Anyway, here's some good browser stuff:
>Groupable tabs RIP Opera 12
>Nothing suspicious in the code See that one Chromium version that downloaded some closed source stuff on Debian
>Keyboard shortcut support RIP Pentadactyl
Jacob Young
Interestingly, Pale Moon satisfies about 90% of these
It's more lean than current firefox and chrome
The majority of non-webextensions add-ons work, those that don't are just a matter of australis/useragent
If a site doesn't render fine it's either because it's using webkit-specific extensions or it's just poorly written
Doesn't send anything back to moonchild or whoever
HTML5 video works most of the time, if it doesn't it's some DRM-infested extension
Sage because browser wars are for other threads, but know that Pale Moon meets a lot of the criteria listed here
Isaac Rogers
Dillo but actually compatible with most websites.
Josiah Price
Something that doesn't take up 1GB of RAM on 3 tabs
Landon Russell
Gabriel Foster
Just lynx or elinks, m8.
Nolan Garcia
pls