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February 26, 2021 at 6:09 pm #55028Member
olsztyn
Interesting part:
Thank you for this additional info…
From my brief experience with Epiphany, triggered by this thread, it seems an efficient browser for normal use to me. I have not identified anything yet for which I would need a much more bulky Firefox or something similar…February 28, 2021 at 4:04 pm #55154MemberjfUd3X5Oh4C5
Just to summarize, here are the web browsers (which have up-to-date version until today) working on a CPU without SSE2:
Gnome Web (epiphany-browser), using WebKit: can open/play/render anything, full blown web browser
Surf (surf), using WebKit: can open/play/render anything, has minimal GUI, starts from terminal
Firefox (firefox-esr), using Gecko: crashes when a YouTube video tries to play
———– line of practical everyday usability —————-
NetSurf (netsurf-gtk), using own engine: has some CSS support, displays images, no JavaScript
Links2 (links2), using own engine: graphical mode, displays images, no JavaScript
w3m (w3m), using own engine: text mode, displays images in xterm, no JavaScript
Lynx (lynx), using own engine: text only, no JavaScriptFebruary 28, 2021 at 4:59 pm #55160Membersybok
I am glad that Lynx made the list. 🙂
In another thread, it was suggested as a fall-back – for sites that work well with it – in a case of a low-end PC.
Mix text-mode browsers with more modern ones to save resources.
I use it to browse several web-pages (find a movie on the current, but soon to be old, version of IMDb etc.).
Everyday non-exclusive usability is still a possibility.February 28, 2021 at 7:41 pm #55183MemberjfUd3X5Oh4C5
I have not identified anything yet for which I would need a much more bulky Firefox or something similar…
You can check https://html5test.com with both browsers (Firefox and Gnome Web (epiphany)). The only thing I identified is that Gnome Web doesn’t have WebRTC support and WebGL2. WebRTC can be useful in case of direct-connect to other browsers, use-cases are games, internet-telephony, etc.
February 28, 2021 at 7:58 pm #55185Memberolsztyn
The only thing I identified is that Gnome Web doesn’t have WebRTC support and WebGL2. WebRTC can be useful in case of direct-connect to other browsers, use-cases are games, internet-telephony, etc.
Thank you. Greatly appreciated. I do not think these will affect me. In the interim I have tested compatibility of Epiphany with various sites I care about, including major banks and so far no problems that I see. Also I have seen some reports of rendering tests done for Epiphany with excellent results of 100% accuracy, if I interpret correctly.
All in all I do not mind a bit simpler gui of this browser as it is elegant enough and appears to save memory footprint vs. major ones…
Thanks and Regards.February 28, 2021 at 8:10 pm #55189MemberMurdock2525
Load Midori and see what happens ? It’s “lighter”
February 28, 2021 at 8:54 pm #55191MemberjfUd3X5Oh4C5
Load Midori and see what happens ? It’s “lighter”
It only WAS lighter.
Wikipedia literally says that “Midori was a lightweight web browser”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)Midori changed its rendering engine to Chromium. This means that it now requires SSE2 too.
By the way, it is not just using Chromium, but it is using Chromium through Electron, what is criticized by many as a resource hog.February 28, 2021 at 11:55 pm #55208Memberuserzero
I guess there are two versions of midori?
(a)
>_ apt show midori Package: midori Version: 7.0-2 Depends: [...] libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.4) [...] Description: fast, lightweight graphical web browser Midori is a lightweight web browser based on WebKit.
The current version is 9.0 (29 jul 2019) … Some possibility to add this version to the repositories.
https://github.com/midori-browser/core(b)
Midori Web Browser – astianhttps://astian.org/blog/2020/11/18/midori-web-browser-y-su-evolucion/
https://astian.org/en/blog/2020/11/18/midori-web-browser-and-its-evolution/March 1, 2021 at 12:04 am #55211Memberuserzero
Before, if the session failed, it was nice to have a text-mode browser like elinks … 🙂
March 15, 2021 at 5:57 pm #55823MemberSondro
After skimming this thread, there is SSE Pale Moon for old browsers, I think you would need to find the Linux version or compile it yourself: https://www.romanstefko.com/pale-moon-sse/
https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27
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March 15, 2021 at 6:11 pm #55827Forum Adminanticapitalista
It’s already in the antiX repos.
palemoon-nonsse2Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
March 15, 2021 at 6:29 pm #55830MemberSondro
It’s already in the antiX repos.
palemoon-nonsse2Nice, is there a FirefoxESR SSE too? Maybe that would be useful: https://github.com/roytam1/mozilla45esr
March 15, 2021 at 7:16 pm #55837Memberskidoo
45esr was a too-early version to fork from.
It lacks some important HTML5 capabilities, andfewno one maintaining such a fork would have the stamina to patch all the known vulnerabilities. roytam1 is tailcoating the tenfourfox project, and only “203 commits” indicates nearly zero attention to applying the myriad patches available…The final non-SSE2 firefox release was 48.0.[2?]
I would steer friends//family away from relying on these (v48 and older) to safely surf the “modern web”. -
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