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[VMGuy23]best non-chromium browser?18:50
nicomachusfirefox18:51
[VMGuy23]Any others? i don't like firefox18:51
lotuspsychjelinks218:54
nicomachuslol18:54
nicomachus[VMGuy23]: outside of text-only browsers, most all browsers are either built on top of chromium or firefox. you can try something like opera or even edge, but they're still built on top of chromium or firefox engines.18:56
[VMGuy23]Edge and Opera are both Chromium-based18:57
[VMGuy23]The reason why I don't want chromium-based is that they won't load webpages, not even show the loading icon18:57
daftykinswell that sounds like a much more major issue19:32
[VMGuy23]Yeah, Brave might work... but the 1min startup is too much19:34
daftykinsis this a steam powered PC?19:35
[VMGuy23]No, it's a snap19:54
sarnoldit might be worth filing a bug and asking them to switch to lz4 compression for their snap19:54
[VMGuy23]Most chromium-based snaps are like this, Opera suffers aswell20:03
daftykinsthe other day you commented on software instability and issues - and i really don't think they're things others encounter, so i was asking about the PC because i think something sounds very wrong20:08
[VMGuy23]It's a 2019 Acer laptop, Aspire 320:19
daftykinsnot very useful, system specs would be20:24
[VMGuy23]AMD Ryzen 3 3200u (i think) CPU with built-in AMD Radeon Vega Mobile GFX20:27
[VMGuy23]16GB of RAM, it came with 4GB20:28
ograif you want a fast browser take this ... https://snapcraft.io/mosaic ...20:38
ogra(only text-only browsers are faster)20:39
[VMGuy23]A modern browser20:39
[VMGuy23]Not that thing that can't display webpages properly20:39
ograyeah, admittedly the web looks a bit greyish in it ๐Ÿ˜„20:39
[VMGuy23]yeah20:40
ogra(but it fully supports HTTP 1.0 from 1997 !!!)20:40
[VMGuy23]I mean, any not-Chromium  modern and good browsers? I dont like firefox's look20:41
ograi guess thats your only two options apart from packaging somethig webkit based yourself20:42
ogra(webkit is well alive and kicking, but i dont think there are any browsers left that actually build on top of it)20:42
[VMGuy23]GNOME Web is a working browser20:42
ograisnt that blink (chromium) based ?20:43
[VMGuy23]I don't know20:43
[VMGuy23]but got to go, be on 5PM UK time tommorow20:43
ograhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Web20:44
ograthere you go, it still uses webkit20:44
daftykinsthere's so little on-screen that isn't the page you're viewing, i don't get having an issue with a browser's appearance20:59
sarnoldgotta have a button to let you fiddle with noscript and privacybadger settings21:09
daftykins:)21:15
JanCKDE also still has a webkit-based browser, I think?21:48
JanCand there is surf, luakit, qutebrowser, etc.21:50
ograoh, awesome, i didnt know webkit still had that many users21:51
JanCbut none of the Gtk/Qt webkit browsers support things like DRM'ed streaming, I think21:51
JanCso if you need that...21:51
ograyeah21:51
sarnoldqutebrowser looks nice, but I don't think I could really feel safe using a mostly-unmaintained rendering toolkit21:52
ogra(though widevine streaming isnt really great anyway ... i prefer to get more than SD quality so i rearely bother to stream netflix or amazon under linux)21:53
JanCogra: others don't have those limits with Widevine21:53
ogra"others" ?21:53
JanClike some TV stations & such21:54
ograah, yeah ...21:54
* ogra uses vdr for in-house TV streaming ๐Ÿ˜‰ 21:54
ograhttps://snapcraft.io/vdr-server21:54
ograshameless plug ๐Ÿ˜‰21:54
* sarnold looks for a slot..21:55
ograhaha21:55
JanCthose TV stations get forced to use DRM for some things, but don't really care themselves21:55
JanCyou can "find" almost everything from Netflix/Amazon/etc. in 4K for free, so apparently those "superior" DRM used for higher resolutions are completely useless, and I don't understand why they even bother...21:58

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