[sf-lug] what's better than firefox?

[Akkana Peck]

jim writes:
>     I'm running firefox 52.0.2 (64 bit) and terminal I/O
> is painfully slow and getting more so. Seems (from top
> output) that firefox is hogging the CPU.

Debian upgraded firefox-esr to version 52 a few months ago, and
the performance is terrible compared to the previous ESR release.
It also has some annoying bugs, like paypal on ebay failing if
noscript is also installed (bug 1348497). I don't want to upgrade
past that because of the plugin compatibility problem.

I'm increasingly tempted to switch to something like palemoon ...
but what's their record on keeping up on security fixes? Security
is arguably more important in the browser than in any other Linux
program, and I wonder about a small project being able to keep up
with the flood of security bugs. Anybody have a sense for how secure
the firefox forks are compared to firefox itself?

Maybe the answer is to run one of the non-mainstream browser in a chroot.

        ...Akkana