And, still, I wouldn't consider Mozilla as an alternative as they are in the game too.Explore, connect and share your interests with real people. Or in other words Blink and WebKit engines. Leaving, as I said above, Microsoft and Mozilla to just follow the trend trying to being an "alternative" (in case of Edge, as it uses the same Chrome engine, is not an alternative) of the, now, king: Chrome. Those who control the route web and browser are taking is on Google/Chrome/Android and Apple/Safari/iOS-Mac, as they have been pushing how the web must look, specially on mobile devices, in the living standard and what the browsers must offer. Microsoft here has the same role as Mozilla, just a follower of the trends, as Edge uses Chrome engine, so. I've concluded that there is no browser which does it all without slowing down my Linux PC to a crawl - hence the sort of collection of them which I use presently.Īs Chrome/big G & M$ grab more & more of this area though, these things can very easily change overnight & with no warnings at all.Įdited 1 time(s). Yes - there are a few sites which simply -demand- a Chrome back-end, for which I reluctantly open ungoogled Chromium.briefly. My most used browser now is the Linux version of Basillisk, which is about 90% great for me right now and I'm very happy with being able to use Classic Add-ons archive with it.įor my fast & light needs I still use & prefer an older w32 version of Mypal because it is so good that way !!įor ALL videos I may wish to view I use Librewolf from its APPIMAGE file, which is very slick & actually surprisingly easy on resource usage as well. I have BNavigator, but seldom use it, though I do enjoy its classic looks. It turned out to be a terrible resource hog that only got worse & worse as it was used, so it got removed. If honesty were employed - poor old (but in reality dead) FF should now be called ChromeFox (or even GoogleFox) - 'cuz that IS what it has become already, using Chrome extensions, etc.īack to Seamonkey, I desperately desired for it to be the solution for at least the browser functions of it under Linux, and I even tried using its email portion, BUT=> makes me dizzy, thinking of that workload for the maintainers! and for each version also single langpacks to download, equally split for different OS again. and each in dozens of languages, all separate downloads. There must be dozens, if not hundred, of every single version?! For win32, win64, Mac, Linux. Also checked the FAQ, and nowhere any word about "portable" to be found.īut to me as a KM-user, used to get only single releases, and knowing the Seamonkey folks have extremely limited manpower too, this multitude of download links is mindblowing: Or perhaps it's something different? But if it's portable, it's really well hidden. That is, if "zip" really means "portable" here? Just an assumption, but strange that it's 20% bigger as the installer-version, hmm. One has to inspect the single archive folders and stumble across a "zip" e.g. but without this clear info, it's really very hard to figure out! Quote JohnHell It is portable!!! For the very first version it always has been portable, or has had got a portable option, as you prefer: Meanwhile I can finally find the archived dates and URLs myself, without JS (thanks to url-parameters and cdx), but how to find specific answers to KM-problems inside this pile of URLs?Įdited 1 time(s). But how long yet, if Seamonkey now dies too.īy the way mozillazine must also close, after some 20 years, another extremely valuable resource.īut at least its admin plans to keep the site public, as a static, frozen archive.Īnd whenever a site goes down everyone places all hopes in the wayback archive, but have lately realized: without a powerful search engine that's rather useless too! At least for sites like this forum here. Those of the FF addons which were also compatible with Seamonkey or Thunderbird, were not deleted by Mozilla, they are still there. What's additionally worrying me about this is the addons archive on AMO. The posting above sounds hopeful, but on the other hand have recently read that it's more and more dying too, due to losing devs (always were just a few, in spare time, and meanwhile almost just 1 left), and also due to Mozilla's removal of all the engine bridges for forks. Regarding Seamonkey, have not much hope either. Browser, Operating System, Search engine, Videos, Mail and Doc services, cloud hosting etc., no escape. They have become absolutely almighty by now, and in various fields. Today the situation is much worse as in days of IE6, nothing will be able to replace Google anymore. the graveyard keeps filling, and the downhill path will not end anytime soon
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