The mess that is 'default browser'

[Bret Busby]

On 07/11/2021, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 10:38, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just out of interest, you do realise that Opera is now owned (and
>> controlled?) by China, don't you?
>>
>> Some years ago, the Norwegian Opera company/organisation sold Opera to
>> China.
>
> This is true.
>
> Some of the company founders now offer a new browser, Vivaldi. Both
> are based on the Google engine from Chrome, though, as is MS Edge, now
> available for Linux too.
>
>> Thence, I stopped using Opera.
>
>
> Your choice. You might like Vivaldi, then.
>

I have tried both vivaldi and brave, and, amongst other things, found
them to be too demanding of resources.

And, "the Google engine from Chrome" appears to be the most unstable
software that I have encountered, comparable with Debian experimental.
I frequently get hung web browsers and other software, and, the path
of the "unresponsive script" message that usuaslly shows about one or
two hours after they system has become unusable (which frequently
happens), starts with chrome. And, I do not have the chrome browser
installed, regarding it as part of the Borg - the more evil and
powerful Borg than micros@@t.

I would post an example of the "unresponsive script" mines that seem
to be spread through the software, but for the message size limit of
40kB.

>> Previously, I had understood Opera to
>> be the safest web browser.
>
> I'm not aware of any particular reason it should be, but it was a good
> browser. Never my default since I used a 486 but a solid tool.
>

If my memory is correct, when I was using opera, it was the only web
browser (apart from maybe lynx), that had neither been breached, nor,
otherwise found to have security vulnerabilities.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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