On 12/28/17 20:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > currently running fedora 27 on my asus laptop, and i've previously > whined about how cripplingly slow the firefox browser is, to the point > where i had to kill it and restart it several times a day (memory > leak?). > > more recently, it simply locks up my entire system, typically within > only minutes of my starting it, to the point where i've bailed on it > and switched to chrome. at this point, since i'm not wedded to any > particular browser, i'm open to suggestions for a simple, fast, > reliable and secure browser for fedora. > > of course there is always opera (which i haven't used in quite some > time so i have no idea how well that fits the bill). and if i choose > to stick with chrome, i just ran across what looks like a hardened > version of it, iridium: > > https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/fedora > > i'm sure there are other possibilities, so i'm open to suggestions. i > really wish i knew why firefox was treating me so badly, but i've > given up trying to figure it out and just want to move on. > I suppose 2 questions pop into mind after reading your post. 1. Can we assume you've started firefox in -safe-mode to eliminate an extension as the problem? 2. You've switched to chrome. Is there something wrong with chrome that is making you look elsewhere? What is your "bill" which needs fitting to qualify a browser as reliable and secure? -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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