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Don’t forgot about https://librewolf.net/ It’s Firefox with every privacy setting turned to max.
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Well the worst part of Firefox is arguably Gecko. If one could make a browser with Firefox's backend and instead render with Blink that would be pretty dope.
Too bad Mozilla gave up on Servo.
In this case it turns out to be built on Electron, which uses the Blink (Chrome's) rendering engine.
I installed it (yes you can install this right away, the download button doesn't lead you to some signup form!) and played with it a bit. It's beautiful, but I feel that chrome has a better beauty/functionality tradeoff. Some differences vs chrome I noted: — no favicons — no addressbar — no skeuomorphic tabs All these things make it look more beautiful and elegant then chrome, but less functional.
I love this browser in theory, but these were my problems with it exactly and they all really hurt usability. Favicons are ultra functional—when I'm looking for a tab most of the time I'm looking for the favicon, not the title. Otherwise, I'm moving my mouse to the rough area it I know that it is and having tabs that fill up as much of the width as possible kills this as I'm opening more and more tabs and they shrink…
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Apologies for nitpicking, but Lynx is not a CLI program. CLI programs are non-interactive, composable via stdio / shell scripting, designed to do their one task and return you to your shell prompt. Lynx is an interactive, terminal-based (character cell grid) program, that takes over your shell session - it has every quality of a GUI program, except it's using a terminal emulator as its toolkit. But of course - it's s…
Often people distinguish between "command-line interfaces" (CLI) and "text user interfaces" (TUI). So "sed" is a CLI program, while vim is a TUI program. But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs, so I don't think your parent is wrong.
It is indeed common, and (IMO) it is harmful, as TUI programs are just GUI programs in disguise. They do have two unique strengths: readily accessible over a serial console or an SSH session; and being the lowest common denominator of GUI programming. But they don't share any of the typical (desirable) qualities of CLI programs; typically, any CLI features (if present at all) are an afterthought.
$ ls | vim
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminalA browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!
How can it be possible for an Electron based browser to be faster / more efficient / battery-friendlier than the other mainstream ones?
Sounds like bullshit. We need to see some benchmarks.
Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png
Even Reddit on Firefox PC crashes occasionally (the whole site turns white while browsing). Reddit on FF on Android is barely browsable.