update-manager || web browser

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:44:57 -0800
rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Saturday, January 2, 2016, 3:57:44 PM, Ralf wrote:
> 
> > Hi,  
> 
> > others already pointed out that more RAM not necessarily will
> > help.  
> 
> > I'm using web browsers not in the same way as you do, so I can't
> > give hints regarding your work-flow. However, I used older versions
> > of Opera too and some of it's features that should improve
> > performance did just the opposite. I dislike the new Opera and
> > taking a look at it's settings my guess is, that you should
> > experiment with different settings.   
> 
> > Have you compared Opera with it's successor Vivaldi?
> > https://vivaldi.com/story/  
> 
> That's verrrrry interesting! Hadn't heard of it before.
> 
> As I was checking out browsers, I learned that opera is now using
> blink/google. I didn't realize that. Yech! A big reason why I started
> using opera many years ago was because they had excellent privacy
> features at that time. May need to rethink that. Privacy and Google
> don't belong in the same sentence. :-))

Opera versions >12 uses Blink, yes, but that's just the rendering
engine. I can't remember what search engine it uses by default, but
that's easy to change anyway. There's a privacy policy on their webpage
if you want details.

Ralf mentioned Vivaldi - it uses Blink too, and is still under
development. The last time I looked at it it was so unstable as to make
it unusable, but that might have improved by now.

Petter

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