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The idea of lightweight browsers annoys me (hexbear.net)
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All of these recommendations for Falkon, Palemoon, Seamonkey. Honestly? None of these really make a difference to me, and Falkon actually runs like shit while not really reducing resource use!

Librewolf genuinely runs perfectly for me while taking up slightly (like 10%) more ram and vastly less cpu time. And it being a fork of Firefox, I can easily use all the addons I need (or can afford) to browse the web.

With Falkon stuff barely worked, was slow, and features were missing. With Librewolf, h264ify and a Youtube video as an embed within a tab. I can watch 720p/30fps video without issue. It baffles me on why this concept even exists, when the problem that is the modern web creates is that you really can't make a new, much less lightweight, browser or engine.

And I don't particularly care for Ladybird.

Okay but what shitbox are you running?

Thank you for asking imaginary poster in my head. Intel Atom N2600 with 1GB of DDR3 ram. It sucks. And it is testament to me just how nonsensical lightweight web browsers are, I'm sure that it's Antix that is making it all work. Also I wrote this post on this shitty netbook and it's weirdly smooth happily enough.

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[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've found similar with low spec linux phones. firefox with a few addons is workable. It's not the browser that's too heavy, its the fucking monstrosity many websites have become, and a new browser can't really fix that, though attempting to try is, I suppose, admirable. Hexbear has slow load times (especially initial page load) but once loaded it usually worked fine for me. And there's always diethex

[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

low spec Linux phones

Is this the pinephone or are there more now? I know about the librem but the cost is prohibitive and the company didn't have a great reputation last I saw. Though phosh was the most polished ui that I tried on the pinephone.

[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The "low spec" was referring to the pinephone (and to a lesser extent pinephone pro) yah. I dailied them for over a year and still have the itch to go back tbh (but not the free time or tolerance for bad battery life and bugginess, I have other hobbies now lmao)

From what I'm told the best experience all around is probably using something like a oneplus 6/6t (or maybe some newer devices are also garnering good support by now). Much more horsepower and efficiency than a pinephone/librem and pretty well supported hardware. Phosh should run like a dream on those, or any other UI.

It's like, the opposite of polished but I enjoy SXMO (for the hackability and willingness to depart from traditional smartphone interface paradigms) and one of these days gnome shell mobile might be usable? I've seen some very shiny demos but no idea the current status.

edit: I still miss the pinephone pro with keyboard case. it was almost a good device.