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blur13
I checked again, when I go to duckduckgo.com in Links2 I get redirected to https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ so that might explain the lack of difference. So thats pretty neat. Look at the two different websites in Firefox and you’ll notice a difference.
As a bonus, here are three news sites that absolutely nail it with minimal design that renders flawlessly in a text-based browser.
NPR : National Public Radio
https://text.npr.org/Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/- This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by blur13.
calciumsodium
When using links2, one can copy a link. But to paste that copy either in terminal or another application, one has to use the MIDDLE mouse button. This was suggested by @christophe. The other option to paste was shown by @blur13. Turn on the clipit application in startup. antiX has already installed clipit.
Another way to launch links2 in graphical mode in terminal is using the command xlink2.
I used to use netsurf a lot. It was very fast. The problem, for me at least, is that netsurf does a lot of disk input output writes. I found this found when I was using iotop. So I stopped using netsurf.
Another browser that I found to be very fast and light on resources is falkon. Our repository has the 3.1.0 version. The newer 3.2.0 recently came out. As I understand it, it needs to have the sid repositories active. But I have not investigated this newer version.
Recently I came back to firefox (not the esr version). Maybe it is just me, but firefox 98 version is very fast to load and use compared to previous versions.
blur13
About copy/paste, I now use (in .icewm/keys) key “Super+c” primary2clip.sh
#!/bin/bash xsel -p | xsel -i -bto avoid the overhead of clipit (35 MiB of memory). I’d be fine with using “middle click”, or as I’ve discovered, the much more keyboard friendly “shift+Insert”, if only all applications adhered to that standard. Notably, Firefox, does not (at least not “shift+Insert”). So then “Super+c” and “ctrl+v” works quite well.
ModdIt
calciumsodium wrote
firefox 98 version is very fast to load and use compared to previous versions
Tracks users faster too, did you try LibreWolf, it is heavily cleaned FF.
many of the changes can be transferred to FF LTS but not latest unless some compile time flags are set.
Just not worth it, took many hours to compile on overclocked quad core I5 box.
andyprough
1) use a modern font (Setup/Fonts), I’ve switched to bitstream_iowan_old_style_bt.ttf and related iterations for bold, italics, etc. I think it makes the browser feel more, well, “modern”.
2) Change to Display optimization for LCD (RGB) in Setup/Video options. The default is for CRT. This makes a BIG difference.
3) Create a “dark mode” by changing and saving the settings for a dark style, and copying the config files to new files, eg dark and dark2. There are two config files, one for the HTML options, and one for the Setup options. Before you do that, save your current “light theme” settings to eg light and light2. Then, using a bash alias such as
alias linksd=”cp /home/$USER/.links2/dark /home/$USER/.links2/html.cfg && cp /home/$USER/.links2/dark2 /home/$USER/.links2/links.cfg && xlinks2 google.com”
alias linksl=”cp /home/$USER/.links2/light /home/$USER/.links2/html.cfg && cp /home/$USER/.links2/light2 /home/$USER/.links2/links.cfg && xlinks2 google.com”
You can easily switch between dark and light theme.These are some great ideas, thanks! I’m going to add them to the Trisquel thread and give credit to you, hope that’s OK. I like having that thread there as a single place I can send people to look at lots of different ideas on using links.
andyprough
And just to further clarify using “nitter” to view twitter without JS. Follow a link to twitter, hit “shift-g” to edit the current url, and change twitter.com to nitter.net, leaving the rest of the url intact. Same with reddit.com links, but change to teddit.net.
Yes, I use nitter.net instead of twitter, teddit.net instead of reddit. There’s also wikiless.org instead of en.wikipedia.org url’s, for a simpler, more private wikipedia experience. And I use yewtu.be instead of youtube.com links, and then copy the video link and watch it in mpv.
@blur13 and andyprough, lot of very useful info. I lurk around trisquel forum, but use only antiX.
https://heise.de Ct magazine is a mess, and has inline ads, but should anyone find a way to use it
without so many blank spaces would be very grateful. I will ask @heise but expect no sensible answer,
they have more web tracking and advertising than a delhi dog bugs.guardian uk news and guardian com work quite well.
did you try LibreWolf
Hi @Moddit,
Thanks for the suggestion about LibreWolf. I installed the latest librewolf 98.0.2-1 and watched youtube video. Compared performance while watching the same youtube video using latest google-chrome stable v100. This was done on relatively old Dell Studio desktop. Initially, google-chrome-stable had better CPU % consumption, but after the CPU % stabilized, librewolf v98 and google-chrome v100 were using similar CPU %. In previous similar tests last year google-chrome would be better than previous versions of FF.The .desktop file for librewolf is start-librewolf.desktop, not the obvious librewolf.desktop. I missed finding this .desktop file the first time around. Sneaky.
Librewolf does not start maximized. I was reading why they made it so. Very interesting why.
Librewolf has very solid performance.
Was reading that librewolf would update within 3 days of a FF release, if not the same day.
Thanks.
hi calciumsodium,
we installed differently I have LW in usr/share/librewolf/librewolf. I like the browser and way devs openly and factualy
explain what they do on the code base then compiled browser and why. Much is done with userchrome css and js settings.
Probably for easier maintenance and testing, changing flags and recompiling is very time consuming.It also provides a nice toolbox for playing with FF LTS. Due compile options many/most Enterprise policys (css settings)
are innefective on latest.Performance wise I see little difference to UngoogledChromium depending on site visited, network is also similarly quiet.
Caching not as crazy as with chrome based browsers. Even Vivaldi can fill gigabytes very quickly.Updates are now pretty quick from librewolf project, I am guessing much is automated.
None of my browsers start maximised, all sizes are chosen for a common screen resolution, just different to the monitor maximum. :-).
Browser fingerprinting and cross site tracking is something I dislike intensly and is very efficient even if you try and prevent it.
A while back I did some experiments, regularly searched for fancy ladies underwear in XL but never went near to amazon.
First login suggested exactly what I had been searching for and viewing. That might not be passed on directly due the searches, my main
suspect was the cache. Website startup graphics cache is known to be usable as a supercooky solution. btw, last time I checked chrome was
set to keep that data 7 years or until the cache size only left something crazy like 20% space free. that lead to failed login and browser
caching now in temp.Have a dig around in the cache area, you will find it is misused in many ways.
Reading about the compiled in glean function in FF is also revealing about Moz and respect for users. Gleaning is gathering.The search engine Qwant, based in france is pretty good with links2,
https://www.qwant.com/?q=
Qwant lite, the mobile version works too, the additions below work for both.
I get a certificate error for lite, due time mismatch ??. maybe.
https://www.lite.qwant.com/?q=
https://www.lite.qwant.com/?q=Searchterm_here&t=web&locale=fr_FR
https://www.lite.qwant.com/?q=Gesuchte Begriffhier eingeben&t=web&locale=de_DE
Search for antiX results filtered 1 Month.
https://www.lite.qwant.com/?q=antiX&t=web&locale=el_GR&freshness=month&freshness=day
&freshness=week
&freshness=monthBest documented search engine by far is duckduckgo..
- This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by ModdIt.
andyprough
And just to further clarify using “nitter” to view twitter without JS. Follow a link to twitter, hit “shift-g” to edit the current url, and change twitter.com to nitter.net, leaving the rest of the url intact. Same with reddit.com links, but change to teddit.net.
Yes, I use nitter.net instead of twitter, teddit.net instead of reddit. There’s also wikiless.org instead of en.wikipedia.org url’s, for a simpler, more private wikipedia experience. And I use yewtu.be instead of youtube.com links, and then copy the video link and watch it in mpv.
I’m going to add a couple of more of these privacy focused alternative “redirect” websites I’ve found. Today I found out that there’s an imgur.com redirect website, imgin.voidnet.tech. Just insert that into the url for any link to a picture on imgur and you’ll get the privacy redirected page for the image. Also apparently there’s Bibliogram.art for Instagram posts, although I’ve never used either. But, just figured I’d put them all in this one overview post. Most, if not all of these redirect websites, use fewer resources to show the content than the original sites.
blur13
Heres another one: https://txtify.it that you can prefix onto almost any article URL to get a plain text-only version, e.g.
https://txtify.it/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/nyregion/remote-work-coronavirus-pandemic.html
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