Ardouos wrote:Palemoon is a great browser the stevepusser has backported for the Debian community.
Palemoon is pretty awesome, but it's also based on a
very old Firefox.
Not sure if I like it enough to use as my primary browser, but it may be the best option available.
Ardouos wrote:Waterfox is an honourable mention too, I have not used it though.
I'm tempted by this, particularly because:
Features
Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
And it's built from a Firefox base that isn't several years old. Might be a double edged sword though, as it's likely to get the annoying changes in FF 57 soon enough. Alas there's no up to date Debian compatible repo. Yet.
Ardouos wrote:Qupzilla is still a reasonable choice but getting a bit old... I would mention Midori, but I doubt that it actually is maintained anymore, someone can correct me if I am wrong.
And herein lies the problem with all the "non-mainstream" browsers, as far as i can tell. There are plenty of them, but they're all abandoned, in the process of being abandoned / reworked, still in beta, or terribly behind in standards support & features.
Konqueror was amazing, then it was left to rot. I'm hoping the same doesn't happen to Qupzilla, but this sounds awfully like the same thing over again.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Four times is Official GNOME Policy.