Browser recommendation?

Cotton · 2011-08-06 08:34:03

Can someone recommend a light weight browser with tabs that doesn't crash due to adhoc events (eg some web sites containing flash).

I've tried arora (arora-git) and midori but they just disappear without warning if they try and open a page they don't like. (And don't offer to open the previously open tabs on restart.)

I use Firefox & Chrome for my main browsers and need something for casual browsing, so something with a steep learning curve (ie solely keyboard driven) isn't ideal.

karol · 2011-08-06 08:42:13

Tough call. Dillo doesn't do flash, so how about opera?

Last edited by karol (2011-08-06 08:42:26)

lolilolicon · 2011-08-06 09:18:49

Cotton wrote:

I use Firefox & Chrome for my main browsers and need something for casual browsing.

Why?

Don't know if this is what you want, but I usually start a second profile for Firefox if I don't want to start all the saved tabs (like ~100 tabs), or if I want a temporary session:

Create a new profile:

firefox -ProfileManager

Start in private mode without attaching to running firefox:

firefox -no-remote -private -P <profile name> &

Cotton · 2011-08-06 11:57:53

lolilolicon wrote:

Why?

Like you, its because I don't want wait for loads of Firefox tabs to open, just to read one page.

With the options you've listed, presumably Firefox remembers the tabs in the default session (I use the Tabmixplus addon to ensure tabs are saved on closing FF)?

karol · 2011-08-06 12:00:36

Maybe you can use Firefox for regular browsing and chromium for casual?

SS4 · 2011-08-06 12:32:16

Have you tried Rekonq? It's similar to arora

darkbeanies · 2011-08-06 13:23:03

Hou sos!

I quite like opera too. Not open source, but hey, when do I ever edit any source code?

lolilolicon · 2011-08-06 13:41:40

Cotton wrote:

With the options you've listed, presumably Firefox remembers the tabs in the default session?

Two profiles don't interfere at all. When you create a new profile, firefox adds an entry in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini, and creates a directory under ~/.mozilla/firefox/.
You can always switch profiles using the -P option. For more options, see `firefox --help' or look at the online documentation.

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-08-06 13:42:23)

smiffy92 · 2011-08-06 23:23:40

If you use Firefox try the Bartab plugin - tabs aren't loaded until you actually click on them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/

Dead Code · 2011-08-07 03:11:18

I heard Chromium beta channel has profile switching but it will need a Google account

unixNeophyte · 2011-08-07 06:06:00

Opera, a lightweight browser which works great

Gooru · 2011-08-07 09:21:04

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … b_Browsers

Mihasi · 2011-08-07 10:51:32

I use Epiphany for light-weight browsing. Written in gtk for Gnome, but it works in all DE's I've used (Gnome, LXDE and KDE).

mate · 2011-08-07 12:30:10

Hi, i use Opera and i really recomend it to everyone.
I don't have flash nor java and I can spend all day on youtube thank to webm extension( which in my experience is much less resources consuming than flash), it has many other extensions that allows you to download vids, music,etc from a large number of sites.
In my opinion it's faster than midori, wich is known to be ligthweight.
To make it even faster take a look here to know how to disable all useless staff, such as mail, unity ad so on...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … nce_tweaks

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