Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 14-04-2016, at 09:07, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> (...)
>>> Eric, do you mean the dlbsnail and S3.dlbsnail? Or do you mean the
>>> "LinkDownloads"? The last one I've not been able to get to work (seems to
>>> do nothing).
>>
>> I only installed the dlbsnail, and I think it works okay.
>
> Understood, thanks.
>
>
>> (...)
>> Apart from that, though, this setup is fairly Conkeror like. Just
>> faster, and with fewer mysterious silent crashes!
>
> Faster? How did you do that? For me it is slower, noticeably (I estimate no
> less than 3 to 4 times; from less than one second to about two or more
> seconds in many simple tasks such as opening a link from a email under
> emacs; yes, I am reusing a running firefox with "--new-window"). I guess I
> might need to disable extensions, etc?

I'm not the right one to ask, I'm afraid -- I have no idea! I try hard
not to use browsers at all, and don't really have any plugins installed.
Conkeror used to struggle mightily just to keep up with my typing (and
this is not a boast about my typing speed, sadly), and regularly
"stopped to think" for several seconds. I never really looked into it...