[ale] Chromium Browser

[DJ-Pfulio]

I use different browsers for different purposes, under different conditions.

At home, accessing web resources I control, I'll use firefox. The network there
blocks 30K+ "bad" domains and firefox is set to block most javascript should I
accidentally be redirected somewhere I don't know.

I do not use firefox "in the wild."

At home, when I do online banking or brokerage stuff, I'll run chromium in a
"private" firejail or in a live-boot virtual machine.  In that mode, I don't
visit anywhere else, ever.  There is nothing written to disk.

At home, when I need to log into something like google docs, I use a firejail
constrained chromium. It is allowed to write only to the HOME directory areas
necessary, but nowhere else.

Outside the home, I use chromium in a private firejail, with a SOCKS proxy or
VPN back to my home network.  Chromium is easier to enable/disable the SOCKS
proxy via a script than firefox. It is just a commandline option.

When I'm in a real hurry and need something lite, I'll use either lynx or dillo.

Firefox is tremendously bloated. It seems to want to use 2G just to show up and
4G to look at 1 website.

Chromium is also a hog, plus I really dislike the interface.  Things I want are
too many clicks away and there don't seem to be accel keys for them.

dillo is really fast, and doesn't support javascript or SSL/TLS (well, it
doesn't verify certs), so I use it for quick wikipedia lookup and when I'm
forced to visit those terrible media websites like CNN or the AJC 1-2 times a
year.  I hate their web designs, but I'm not trying to pay employees through my
website, so it really isn't fair.

So, there you have it.  Different browser for different uses and under different
security environments based on my guessed risk levels.



On 09/18/2017 07:50 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I use firefox mostly, chromium for some internal stuff where it works better and
> palemoon for the java plugin required for remote consoles.
> 
> My firefox typically has 20+ tabs running until I forget why I opened them. I'll
> dump and restart fresh about once every 2 weeks.
> 
> Don't really need a little spy logging me so compiled chrome is banished. Of
> course I'm doing nothing wrong for some definition of "wrong".
> 
> On September 17, 2017 8:13:50 PM EDT, John Jajeh <jpjajeh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hey everyone!
> 
>     I recently installed openSUSE on a virtual machine and wanted your opinions
>     in regards to a suitable internet browser. I have always used many different
>     google applications (gmail, google drive, YouTube, etc.) and was initially
>     thinking of using Google Chrome over Firefox (due to the fluidity of the
>     applications with that browser). However, I am aware of how laborious Chrome
>     is on a computer in terms of ram, battery life, etc. After some research, I
>     found out about Chromium, an open source version of Chrome. Has anyone used
>     this specific browser for openSUSE or any other distro? If not, what other
>     browser do you use?
> 
>     Much appreciated,
>     John Jajeh
> 
> 
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