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

[Ken Shaffer]

Oh, as someone mentioned above, I also am running NoScript, so the
possibly many dozens of sites your browser site drags in cannot run
any of their scripts.  You will see all those sites in the NoScript
"Options" button, and can turn them individually on or off or
temporarily on.  Once you have what you want for a site, make the
permissions permanent.  If a site wants too much to work, consider
just leaving.

On 8/14/17, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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