(not) one browser for all - Was: Software repository failure

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 15:24, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'm using more or less 3 browsers on Linux. Falkon (formerly QupZilla),
> Firefox and Chrome. Several other were or are still installed, too, but
> I only will mention some of them, Opera and Vivaldi and the Firefox
> "forks" Pale Moon, IceCat and TorBrowser.

OK.

As I am happy with Chrome for some stuff, I have not investigated any
other Webkit/Blink browsers, including QupZilla.

I have evaluated PaleMoon but I saw no appeal. It uses some quite
outdated Firefox components, whereas Waterfox is based on the latest
pre-Quantum Firefox and the maintainer ports all security fixes. It is
as focused on performance as Firefox, which I like, whereas Palemoon
uses only a single process by design. I have 8 cores so I am happy for
my browser to use several.

IceCat was just a rebranding, plus some extra, small privacy
enhancements. Waterfox includes the latter, I believe. I did not see
the point, and as I understand it, Mozilla has now changed its
trademark policies so Debian can use it again, so there isn't really
any reason for IceCat to exist any more.

I have Safari on macOS and IE/Edge on Windows but don't use either.

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