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Firefox 38 in multiple permutations
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Firefox38 without CRM/DRM Firefox 38 will also be an Extended support release Will Firefox38-esr also provide 2 versions? Information here. Last edited by shep; 13th May 2015 at 07:00 PM. Reason: and -> an |
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Thanks for the heads-up on this. The above-linked TechCrunch article links a Guardian article by Cory Doctorow that I found very informative.
Looking at the firefox 38.0 binary releases, the dual versions exist for Windows only. Made me wonder if the Linux versions contain the offending software or not. The Guardian article mentions that Adobe's blob is also available for Linux, so perhaps they could. But this article says the EME/DRM support is just on Windows now. I also found some conflicting info on this point elsewhere so I'm not 100% sure. Maybe I'll just stop downloading FF, I don't really use it anyway. Though I suppose SeaMonkey for Linux may be at risk in the future. |
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Sure. I use SeaMonkey as a "full-featured graphical" browser, but also use lynx a lot. Due to the relation between SM and FF, of course I worry that bad things in FF could find their way to SM, but the EME/DRM problem needs more investigation by me to see what the plans might be. I should add I don't use SM to watch video and stuff so stability hasn't been an issue.
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I'll try to stay in line with the FireFox orientated origin of this tread and also talk about webkit usage
I know many folks don't like webkit. Oko mentioned Konqueror. But, Khtml was the origin of webkit. I think KDE is actually adopting webkit in the form of kwebkit (Rekonq). I'm not sure on the development history there. I use Surf all the time. It is my preference. I have my bookmarks in form of a local file loaded as my homepage. I wish I could use webkit or gecko without gtk, even though the footprint in Surf and Xombrero isn't bad. It still seems hefty when considering that slight decrease in memory usage compared to Firefox. So maybe a solution to all of this is a synced fork of gecko, like Icecat's, ran inside of something like Surf, Xombrero or Conkeror. |
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That was my experience in previous OpenBSD releases. Usually somethings get fixed in releases as other things break. On my 5.7 stable amd64 system, it seems to be one of the things that got fixed. Have 4 tabs open as I write this and over the last several days have gone hours without a core dump.
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I found some discussion about EME and SeaMonkey.
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Netsurf does such a good job w/o javascript, it sometimes amazes me. Much of the time, I can't really tell it doesn't have js, just by working with the UI. Maybe, someone should hit Netsurf's donation button a couple times, so as to facilitate the javascript. On the other hand, that might ruin the browser. What it amounts to is that bloated, crappy, commercial, insecurely built-out websites (unfortunately, all the biggies) - force bloated, crappy, insecure "receiving software" onto the users who consume their "broadcasts" It's only ever the mega-sites that force me over to use one of the big three browsers. Maybe I should just be like RMS, and use a text browser. |
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