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I recently read a breakdown of browsers here: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/b ... webbrowser
He's a bit negative but I would say from all my exploration that his description of the browser arena is pretty accurate.
Near the end of his article he mentions a fork of Pale Moon called Web Browser and links to a github repository here: https://git.nuegia.net/webbrowser.git/
Wondering if anyone has used it or considered making it portable.
~geo
geo_c
Old School Hipster, and Such
Heh. I'd say he's more than a "bit negative". He comes across as so anti-webbrowsers (period) that I have to wonder just exactly what he eventually used to post the article itself.....
He's really got it in for PaleMoon, too.....but then, Tobin and Moonchild between them are doing a pretty good job of destroying their user-base without help from anybody else! Tobin, especially, has the most "in your face", poisonous attitude problem I've ever seen coming from a developer.... 
"How dare you question my decisions? I don't want to hear any suggestions, and I'm not in the least bit interested in your criticism." Sums the guy up in a nutshell. Talk about a 'primadonna'. Christ. 
Interesting that Iron didn't get a mention; he called-out just about every other Chromium 'clone'.
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As for actually using "Web browser", ya gotta compile this yourself.....from source (never mind then making it 'portable'). Compiling a web browser - ANY web-browser - is no small undertaking. Way above MY pay-grade, at any rate.
(*shrug...*)
Mike. 
mikewalsh wrote: Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:58 pm"How dare you question my decisions? I don't want to hear any suggestions, and I'm not in the least bit interested in your criticism." Sums the guy up in a nutshell. Talk about a 'primadonna'. Christ.
Interesting that Iron didn't get a mention; he called-out just about every other Chromium 'clone'.
Mike.
I like Pale Moon, but the new version breaks on a business website called planningcenteronline.com and just doesn't display the dashboard after logging in. It's the Pale Moon update because it does it on every machine I've updated to the latest (what 29 something?) So that's kind of disconcerting.
I originally thought Iron wasn't calling home to google, but the last portable Iron can access google's addon library and that makes me think I had it wrong. What is the deal with Iron, because it appears to be the fastest, tightest browser ever invented. It was the first open source browser I ever tried in linux, and I was blown away. It got me on the path to being an avid linux user, which I have no running copies of Windows anymore, and don't need it a bit. I've been using Puppy since 4.3.3. It got better and better, and Fossa pup runs like a top. I always used Studio 13.37 when it was just Puppy Studio. Now I use puddlemoon's Jackal as my main operating system. Occasionally Fossa.
But browsers not attached to google. Is there ever gonna be one again. I have all kinds of browsers I run. At the moment I'm on LibreWolf, but I bounce back and forth between Ungoogled Chromium, Libre, Pale Moon, Sea Monkey, Falkon, and even sometimes Links for kicks.
~geo
geo_c
Old School Hipster, and Such
Flash wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:29 amI find white text on a black background to be very hard on my eyes, not to mention hard to read.
All my OS's and apps are inverted, but yeah, white is too much. I use 33cccc for text.
~geo
geo_c
Old School Hipster, and Such
@puppytrue :-
You can find LibreWolf AppImages here:-
https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/ ... -/releases
These are 64-bit only. Just make 'em executable, and click to run.
Mike. 
@puppytrue :-
Once you've downloaded it, right-click on the AppImage, then select 'Properties'. Down the bottom of the 'Properties' window, tick all 3 check-boxes, followed by 'Refresh', then 'Close'. Now, if you left-click on the AppImage, it should fire-up. It may take a few seconds, since it unpacks itself into /tmp before launching.
This same procedure should be followed for any AppImage.
Hope that helps.
Mike.
