Hello, If you're looking for a simple and "fast" browser, I would encourage you to take a look at qutebrowser [0]. It should be "fast enough" for you since it uses the same backend as chromium. "A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebEngine" It's packaged in Fedora :-) [1] [0] http://qutebrowser.org/ [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/qutebrowser/overview/ -- Timothée On 28/12/17 13:24, 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. > > rday >
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
