(not) one browser for all

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 08:01 -0400, Little Girl wrote:

>> I thought I'd take this off-list since it's a new topic.  
>
>By accident you sent it to the mailing list.

Whoops. That will teach me to properly read the reply address.

>> Just curious, but have you tried the Vivaldi browser? I don't know
>> if it handles the history the way you like to because I have it
>> clear my history every time I close it, leaving me no history to
>> search, but it's worth a try.
>> 
>> They're a rather interesting team with a surprisingly configurable
>> browser. My only reason for not using it exclusively is that it's
>> not open source.  
>
>I liked the old Opera, not the new one and I also don't like Vivaldi
>that much.

Okay. I figured it was worth a mention in case you hadn't tried it.

>Vivaldi "stable" is always up to date on my machine, since around 4
>years now and there always is an issue.

I haven't had it for quite as long and haven't done any tests on it.
I do like some of its features, though, and wouldn't mind seeing them
in other browsers.

>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep vivaldi /var/log/pacman.log | grep
>-e \(1.0.219.50-2 -e \(2.6.1566.40-1 [2015-11-05 19:16] [ALPM]
>upgraded vivaldi (1.0.219.50-2 -> 1.0.303.52-1) [2019-06-25 13:24]
>[ALPM] upgraded vivaldi (2.6.1566.40-1 -> 2.6.1566.44-1)
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ vivaldi-stable 2>&1 | grep ERROR
>[1951:1951:0716/143848.368967:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(368)]
>InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process
>gpu-process.
>[1919:2005:0716/143848.454730:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(619)] Failed to
>call method: org.freedesktop.Notifications.GetCapabilities:
>object_path= /org/freedesktop/Notifications:
>org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
>org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
>[1951:1951:0716/143848.630872:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(488)]
>[.DisplayCompositor]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_OPERATION : glBufferData:
><- error from previous GL command
>[1919:1919:0716/143848.924735:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "[object Event]",
>source:  (0) [1919:1919:0716/143849.889616:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)]
>"Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a
>response was received.", source:
>chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/browser.html (0)
>[1919:1935:0716/143854.793373:ERROR:browser_process_sub_thread.cc(221)]
>Waited 18 ms for network service
>
>It's possible to use Vivaldi, but a sandbox error isn't confidence-
>inspiring.

You're right. Mine throws an error on launch, too. I'll keep an eye on
it from now on to see if they sort that out.

>One of the browsers I never installed is Brave, it does block ads,
>just to replace them with different ads.

I hadn't heard of that until just now. It's not in the Ubuntu
repositories, which is usually enough to deter me from installing
something. In this case, though, I'd also stay far away from it if
Wikipedia is right that they're considering adopting a pay-to-surf
business model in a future version.

Everything I create is shared for free and what I love about
GNU/Linux and its associated collections of software is being able to
get exactly that from others who share their work. Any time I see
greed rearing its ugly head, I tend to run in the other direction.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.