(not) one browser for all

[Bret Busby]

On 17/07/2019, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>>On 16/07/2019, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> There is no spoon.
>>
>>There must be a spoon, because all it takes, is a spoonful of
>>sugar...
>
> There might not be any sugar either.
>
>>Depending on what version of Ubuntu, you are using, I am using
>>Midori, on 16.04, as my primary web browser, but, as Midori went
>>wonky for 18.04, I use Midori for only two sites, on 18.04..
>>
>>Whilst I expect that you would be using a later version of Ubuntu,
>>than 16.04.x, if, perchance, you happen to be using 16.04.x, it may
>>be worth looking at Midori, as a possible alternative.
>
> I've been shamefully bad and am still using Ubuntu MATE 16.04 (soon
> to be replaced by Kubuntu 18.04 since at least one of the changes to
> Ubuntu MATE 18.04 is an absolute show-stopper for me).
>
> I'll take a look at Midori. It looks like it's part of the Xfce
> desktop.
>
>>I had given up on Opera, when the Norsemen (Vikings?) sold it to the
>>chinese government, for the sinister purposes of the chinese
>>government.
>
> I've never used Opera. I had tried it for a few moments once and
> didn't like the interface at all. Vivaldi is based on it, though, so I
> guess I occasionally use it in a round-about way when I fire up
> Vivaldi.
>
>>The good version of Midori, on UbuntuMATE 16.04.x, shows as being
>>v0.5.11, and the not so good version of Midori, on UbuntuMATE
>>18.04.x, shows as being v7-34-g0c5820f.
>
> What's different between them?
>
> --
> Little Girl
>
> There is no spoon.
>


One of the annoying differences, is that, whilst the earlier version
provides for each browser window having a menubar, the later version
does not.

Functionality of the earlier version, is missing in the later version.

Another difference, is that, in the earlier version, encapsulation (if
this is the correcter term in this context) works with "Private
Browsing", and, does not, in the later version. I therefore, do not
trust the "privateness" of the Private Browsing, in the later version.

A good example of this, is that, in the version of Midori, on 16.04.x,
I can enable scripts (javascript) in a Private Browsing window, and,
that enabling of scripts, is limited to whatever Private Browsing
window, in which I have enabled it, and. nowhere else. From that, I
assume that preferences set within one Private Browsing Window, are
limited to existing within that Private Browser window, and, not
without. In the later version of Midori, I have found that the setting
of preferences, such as enabling scripts, is not contained within a
"Private Browsing" window, but, it applied without, so that, instead
of being like local variables, limited to the "Private Browsing"
window, in which they are set, they are like global variables,
unlimited in their presence, across all windows open of the web
browser. I therefore have no confidence in the "Private Browsing"
implementation, in the later version.

These are the main two significant differences, that I easily
remember. And, to me, they are both, quite significant.

If you are still using Ubuntu 16.04.x, as long as you keep updating
it, I suggest that you stay with it. I believe that 16.04, and its
associated packages, are superior to 18.04.

The only feature of 18.04, that I have found, that has an advantage
over 16.04, Is that I could install 18.04 into UEFI, on a MS Windows
10 computer, and, with 16.04, from memory, it has to be installed into
Legacy BIOS, and, can not be installed on a computer with MS Windows
10. I may be wrong in that, and, if I am wrong in that, I stand to be
corrected.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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