Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-04-09, at 02:26, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Adam Porter <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> https://vivaldi.com/
>>> 
>>> Did anyone hear about it?  Any thoughts/experiences?  "Taking notes
>>> while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no?
>>> Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like or emacs-like bindings, or
>>> (hopefully) configurable ones.  I, for one, would like to try it out,
>>> though I do not have too high hopes.
>>
>> It looks interesting, but it's not free software, so I have no interest
>> myself.  Firefox/Iceweasel has been serving me well since before it was
>> Firefox, and Pentadactyl has been my primary UI to it for a long time.  I
>> don't feel like Mozilla is taking it in a good direction anymore, but if it
>> ever gets too bad, there's Iceweasel, and there's Pale Moon (which has
>> committed to "classic" Firefox extension APIs and UI), and there are other
>> alternatives like Conkeror, uzbl, etc.
>>
>> Even if you don't care about free software, Vivaldi is made by former Opera
>> devs, so how do we know they aren't just repeating a cycle?  It could go the
>> same direction Opera went and need to be rebooted again.  As long as it's
>> proprietary, that's a risk its users will always face.
>
> I've been using Conkeror (based on Xulrunner/Firefox) for a while now,
> and like it enough to stick with it. It's completely keyboard driven,
> which I love. It's also not super stable, nor does it seem to be
> actively maintained, which I don't love. If anyone has recommendations
> for better keyboard-driven browsers, I'd love to hear them...

eww ;-)

But seriously, I'd also like to hear them!

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University