#1 2016-02-23 22:05:22

Rocky

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Iceweasel / Chromium

I have found Iceweasel a bit heavy in recent times - both when I was running Debian XFCE and now on BunsenLabs. My computer is an oldish Dell Dimension (8-9 years with 2Gig RAM).

The Flash is not up to date message is also irritating - i know it can be updated but as mentioned elsewhere an apt-get upgrade doesn't include Flash updates. I am using Chromium at the minute which gets round the Flash problem as it has its own flash plugin. However I still have a residual discomfort using anything Google associated (I know Chromium and Chrome are not the same).

Anybody have any views on the best browser for 2Gig RAM ( hardly a leading edge spec but not minimal either) ?

Interesting  related discussion recently over on Debian forums

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

There are a couple of flashplugin options with BunsenLabs - the adobe one, and pepperflash. If you update/upgrade, then re-run `bl-welcome`, the latest script will offer to install one of them for you. In that case an apt-get update will update it.

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Rocky

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

Wow - the bl-welcome script is seriously good. Puts BL / Debian on another level altogether
Thanks damo

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

Wow - the bl-welcome script is seriously good. Puts BL / Debian on another level altogether
Thanks damo

Kudos to @johnraff for that

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

I have found Iceweasel a bit heavy in recent times - both when I was running Debian XFCE and now on BunsenLabs. My computer is an oldish Dell Dimension (8-9 years with 2Gig RAM).

i can relate.
chromium won't be better.
on that machine, you have basically 2 choices:

1. use a truly light browser that is fast, but will limit your internet experience: netsurf, dillo, w3m...

2. use a light frontend to one of the current web engines (i.e. webkit, for the most part): qupzilla, midori, dwb, surf, xombrero, uzbl...

i am right now using dwb (make sure to get a current version).
it's the only acceptable solution on this underpowered netbook.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

Be aware that the only secure browsers are Iceweasel and Chromium.

All the webkit-based browsers are fundamentally insecure and should not be used.

See https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … r-security

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Rocky

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Re: Iceweasel / Chromium

Thanks for the link HoaS. Obviously it is not safe to assume that because a browser is in the Debian repositories that it is secure. I thought Epiphany was nice until I saw that link

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