Why is Firefox used as the default browser?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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After installing epiphany-browser on antiX-17, I get this when searching for antiX

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Works A OK for me. Here’s a screenshot of it running on antiX 17, opened to GitHub.

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Oh and I also did a search for antiX and it went fine. Are you on the stable branch like I am?

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Yes, default set up and repos. Using hlwm

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Regarding Firefox, it most certainly *is* a huge resource consumer. The Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) – as far as I know, 52.5.0esr is the “latest”. The current *released* version of Firefox is 57.0.1, the “Quantum” release – see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0.1/releasenotes/
Version 58.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on November 8, 2017.

This site shows the overall calendar, and I’ve copied the “Nightly” version “starting point” on the page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefox_59_Nightly

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By the way, Firefox 57 really speeds things up and it competes well with the latest versions of Google Chrome and Chromium. At this point NONE of these browsers are “light” when it comes to memory consumption. In that regard, Dillo is a much lighter consumer of resources, but it’s also less capable when it comes to being able to handle the most up-to-date browser capabilities, and that’s where the most current *released* versions of Firefox really shine.
Firefox 52.0esr is reasonable in this regard, though Firefox 57.0.1 is arguably more efficient and capable in just about every other respect (except memory consumption, where all of the truly “capable” browsers are HEAVY memory consumers.

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Firefox 57 really speeds things up

I’m compelled to point out: Your observation reflects YOUR usage, is based on YOUR surfing habits and YOUR hardware.
My performance observations, tested on various hardware, have been quite unfavorable ~~ gobbling up ram and spilling over into swap.
For me, ultimately, performance is moot given the absence of my long-treasured “legacy” browser extensions.

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Quite true. As we’ve discussed, no matter which browser we discuss or choose to use, it’s effectiveness depends greatly on the environment in which it’s used.

For me personally the latest browsers that Mozilla has produced have steadily increased in speed from Firefox 52 on, but I happen to be able to use a system with 8 GB of available RAM!

On some older equipment – and maybe I can try it on my Gateway 2000 (2007-2009) system – a 32-bit model with considerably less memory – there may be a HUGE difference indeed. In fact it is getting difficult to find software that is current that works, so having antiX is GREAT!

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Hi, data point for this thread as FYI

I can’t use firefox on wimpy machine (atom, 1 GB) running antix 16.2.
I believe it is due to insufficient RAM. I find qupzilla 1.8.9 (with
webkit 538.1) stable for past 5 months, but some pages don’t render
properly.

dual core processor
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl
tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
MemTotal: 1018928 kB
antiX-16.2_386-base Berta Cáceres 15 June 2017

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firefox on wimpy machine

Well… firefox-esr v52 is usable on Raspberry Pi 2 and similar low-spec SoC systems running Raspbian O/S (based on debian 8, aka Jessie)

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