On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:01:49AM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 05/12/17 13:26, Chris Green wrote:
I'm finally getting a bit fed up with Firefox, for a couple of reasons:-
It's seems incapable of working with eBay without going to 100% CPU and slowly grinding to a halt. The last few updates have made it *look* decidedly clunky. Arcane configuration parameters required to make it so it can open files on one's local file system.So, I've been looking at alternatives and there's not much that seems any better (they have different issues in the main).
I've been trying chromium and it certainly seems faster than Firefox and doesn't seem to grind to a halt on eBay, but:-
I want a separate search bar You can't change the keyboard shortcutsIs anything else any better? I've been wondering about Vivaldi, same underlying engine as Chromium but apparently much more configurable. Has anyone here tried it? I'm just a bit wary of going 'off piste' as it were (not in the Ubuntu repositories).
My initial suggestion would be reopen firefox in safe mode and then see if it works OK. I have NO PROBLEM with ebay at all with firefox. If it works OK, backup your bookmarks, unintsall it, purge it & do a fresh install.
That's a point I guess, there might be something in my system that's causing the problem. I have very few Firefox extensions though.
The most secure & supported browsers are firefox & chrome/chromium. If you move away from these you're likely to get a browser that doesn't respond as quickly to security issues.
Vivaldi is pretty close to chrome/chromium, uses the same extensions for example, so will mostly keep up with their security etc. I think.
There are of course many other browsers. I used to use Opera all the time. It's closed source but standards compliant & seemed reliable. Many people are talking about Palemoon now - it behaves like firefox used to.
Not quite sure why opening files on your local machine would be an issue.
It's a security thing, *links* to files on the local file system are not allowed from web pages . I.e. you can open a link file:///tmp/myfile by entering that in the address bar but you *can't* have a link to file:///tmp/myfile on a web page, it is silently ignored if you click on it.
There's a messy workaround in Firefox using 'capability.policy' settings (that's what I meant by 'arcane configuration parameters').