BadWolf Is A Minimal, Privacy-Oriented Web Browser DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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WarpRulez
I don't really understand the rationale in turning off javascript.
In the late 90's and early 2000's it made more sense because back then javascript was not only quite rarely used, but even when it was, it was 99.9% of the time purely a useless gimmick that achieved absolutely nothing useful, and in a few cases it was in fact some kind of attempt at limiting what you could do in the web page at best, and an attempt at some kind of exploit at worst. And of course it didn't exactly help that back then it was extraordinarily slow and heavy to run (because web browsers had no optimizations for it developed yet.)
However, browser technology and standards have advanced quite a lot since those stone age times. Javascript is now part of the HTML standard, and browsers have become both extraordinarily efficient at running it, and very safe. While there are a few exploits found from time to time, generally speaking running javascript on the browser is really safe. You are much more likely to get something bad from downloading a game on Steam than you are of having a javascript browser exploit installing something bad in your system.
And since javascript has become part of the standard, and browsers have had extremely good support for it for over a decade, javascript has become an essential ubiquitous core part of almost any major website. And not only for gimmicky stuff, but for actual useful stuff (like AJAX).
Nowadays disabling javascript would be like disabling the or the tags. It makes little sense, really. You are just crippling the majority of the major websites out there, for no good reason.
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I don't really understand the rationale in turning off javascript.
In the late 90's and early 2000's it made more sense because back then javascript was not only quite rarely used, but even when it was, it was 99.9% of the time purely a useless gimmick that achieved absolutely nothing useful, and in a few cases it was in fact some kind of attempt at limiting what you could do in the web page at best, and an attempt at some kind of exploit at worst. And of course it didn't exactly help that back then it was extraordinarily slow and heavy to run (because web browsers had no optimizations for it developed yet.)
However, browser technology and standards have advanced quite a lot since those stone age times. Javascript is now part of the HTML standard, and browsers have become both extraordinarily efficient at running it, and very safe. While there are a few exploits found from time to time, generally speaking running javascript on the browser is really safe. You are much more likely to get something bad from downloading a game on Steam than you are of having a javascript browser exploit installing something bad in your system.
And since javascript has become part of the standard, and browsers have had extremely good support for it for over a decade, javascript has become an essential ubiquitous core part of almost any major website. And not only for gimmicky stuff, but for actual useful stuff (like AJAX).
Nowadays disabling javascript would be like disabling the or the tags. It makes little sense, really. You are just crippling the majority of the major websites out there, for no good reason.
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Abe
anything that doesn't use chromium v8 as a browser is pretty much a dud . Most of us web devs aren't going to spent alot of time optimizing for different browsers unless it's a must have. That's the cold hard truth . As much as Linux people hate the modern web , v8 is probably the most efficient JavaScript engine out there . It continues to be the fastest / most supported .
If you really care about privacy , then just get brave or fork chromium and make your own browser .
It gets on my nerves when I see people turn off JavaScript . Like do you know most of these applications are spas , they're not going to work without js. No one writes web applications in static html CSS and js . There's a reason for that ...
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anything that doesn't use chromium v8 as a browser is pretty much a dud . Most of us web devs aren't going to spent alot of time optimizing for different browsers unless it's a must have. That's the cold hard truth . As much as Linux people hate the modern web , v8 is probably the most efficient JavaScript engine out there . It continues to be the fastest / most supported .
If you really care about privacy , then just get brave or fork chromium and make your own browser .
It gets on my nerves when I see people turn off JavaScript . Like do you know most of these applications are spas , they're not going to work without js. No one writes web applications in static html CSS and js . There's a reason for that ...
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Negrito
I'm not sure about which kind of minimal web browser you are searching.
Not bars, not menu: just use fullscreen mode. In firefox is F11, but you can add an icon to toggle that mode on your bar.
minimal in ram usage. I don't know, but why haven DT use htop to benchmark how much ram it consumes
skipping image and javascripts in order to load faster. This one is cool. (but you can also add no image no java addon on firefox)
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I'm not sure about which kind of minimal web browser you are searching.
Not bars, not menu: just use fullscreen mode. In firefox is F11, but you can add an icon to toggle that mode on your bar.
minimal in ram usage. I don't know, but why haven DT use htop to benchmark how much ram it consumes
skipping image and javascripts in order to load faster. This one is cool. (but you can also add no image no java addon on firefox)
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Daniel
For me it would be a no go because I need a browser that's also on Android and Mac and which can sync open tabs and bookmarks.
And still needs to be light on resources.
As far as I can tell Firefox is the only one that fits the bill although I haven't tried Brave yet.
I currently use Vivaldi but because it's chrome based it's heavy on battery on my kubuntu laptop.
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For me it would be a no go because I need a browser that's also on Android and Mac and which can sync open tabs and bookmarks.
And still needs to be light on resources.
As far as I can tell Firefox is the only one that fits the bill although I haven't tried Brave yet.
I currently use Vivaldi but because it's chrome based it's heavy on battery on my kubuntu laptop.
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Chulito
Hey Distrohuggers,
Kernel 5.8.0-0.rc3 is working good on my Fedora Rawhide install.
For those of you that like to play with browsers: IceCat is now built off of Firefox 78.0. I do not use IceCat, but there must be enough people out there that want a browser free of proprietary code to justify the project.
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Hey Distrohuggers,
Kernel 5.8.0-0.rc3 is working good on my Fedora Rawhide install.
For those of you that like to play with browsers: IceCat is now built off of Firefox 78.0. I do not use IceCat, but there must be enough people out there that want a browser free of proprietary code to justify the project.
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Kenny
I don't understand what makes this browser -privacy oriented- aside from the ability to block java script. I would like to hear more about what it does for privacy and security, since that is the main thing keeping me on firefox as opposed to a minimalist browser.
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I don't understand what makes this browser -privacy oriented- aside from the ability to block java script. I would like to hear more about what it does for privacy and security, since that is the main thing keeping me on firefox as opposed to a minimalist browser.
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subversive775
Hey DistroTube, I've got a few recommendations for you.. KISS Linux, OpenIndiana Hipster, and Project Trident (Void on ZFS). KISS Linux is an AMAZING linux distro. it is THE MOST minimalist linux distro there is.
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Hey DistroTube, I've got a few recommendations for you.. KISS Linux, OpenIndiana Hipster, and Project Trident (Void on ZFS). KISS Linux is an AMAZING linux distro. it is THE MOST minimalist linux distro there is.
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KJ
No adblock on qute browser? How the hell do people use qute then? If I was making a web browser, the first thing I'd think of is adblocker and then speed, then privacy.
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No adblock on qute browser? How the hell do people use qute then? If I was making a web browser, the first thing I'd think of is adblocker and then speed, then privacy.
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Mr.
I liked the video overall, but critizising that other minimal browsers don't have adblock support and then not speaking about adblock support is just wrong for me.
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I liked the video overall, but critizising that other minimal browsers don't have adblock support and then not speaking about adblock support is just wrong for me.
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Max
I don't see the point of this browser. You might as well use Firefox and turn Javascript off. Even the keybindings in Firefox are comparable and it looks similar.
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I don't see the point of this browser. You might as well use Firefox and turn Javascript off. Even the keybindings in Firefox are comparable and it looks similar.
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