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Revision as of 16:55, 29 December 2019
Alternative browsers
Firefox
- The browser engine is Gecko. It supports MathML (Chrome or Safari does not).
- How to install, uninstall and update Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
- How To Install The Latest Firefox (Non-ESR) On Debian 10 Buster (Stable) Or Bullseye (Testing)
Tor
3 Ways Of Installing Tor Browser On Linux
Chrome or Chromium
The browser engine is Blink
Install from ubuntu repository. sudo apt-get install chromium-browser To launch it, type chromium-browser.
Install the latest version of chromium.
sudo apt install curl git git clone https://github.com/scheib/chromium-latest-linux.git cd chromium-latest-linux ./update-and-run.sh # next time ./run.sh
Note that the chromium program is not in the global environment. That's why we use run.sh to launch chromium.
Proxy
chromium-browser --proxy-server="10.130.5.180:3128" chromium-browser --proxy-server="socks://localhost:4096" # Useful if we use "ssh -D"
Enable hardware acceleration
enable hardware acceleration in chrome / chromium browser [quick tip]
- check if your Chrome / Chromium browser uses hardware acceleration chrome://gpu
- force Chrome / Chromium to use hardware acceleration chrome://flags Search for "Override software rendering list", enable it and restart Chrome. This does not work. The update method is How To Enable Hardware Acceleration In Chromium On Ubuntu Or Linux Mint (VA-API Patched PPA Builds).
Vivaldi
Based on Chromium.
A sidebar provides a place to quickly access your bookmarks, downloads, and history. Less standard is the built-in ability to write and save notes, also available in the sidebar.
While cool, Vivaldi is also a proprietary browser.
The proxy setting is not found in the latest version. To use it,
$ vivaldi --proxy-server="127.0.0.1:8118"
To uninstall it, open the package manager to remove it.
There are many unique/interesting features that are not available in other browsers.
- To search using google, type "g keyword". To search using bing, type "b keyword".
- To add a web panel, click the "+" sign and enter an URL. It's best the website is targeted for mobile devices like twitter.
- We can install any chrome extension; eg adblock. Just go to chrome store to search and add them.
- It has a built-in Note application.
- It can view two websites at the same time. Use shift key to select another tab(s) and right click selecting "Tilt 2 Tabs".
- sync
- screenshot
- Android
Opera
Based on Chromium.
Like Chrome, Opera is closed source.
GNOME Web
There are browsers made specifically for Linux, and GNOME Web is the most mature of the bunch.
It looks and feels like a program intended to run on Linux.
Web lacks the kind of extensions you see on Chrome and Firefox (though ad-block does come built-in).
Eolie
Eolie is another browser built specifically for GNOME.
The URL bar shows a site’s title rather than the web address.
Brave - private, secure, support Chrome extensions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
The browser uses a fork of Electron, called Muon, designed with a focus on browser features. For example, it has support for Chrome extensions, and a higher level of security.
Lacks the in-browser proxy (even version 0.57)
Chromium版隱私瀏覽器Brave 0.57出爐了,要給你Chrome方便性但不回傳資料給Google, Brave browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions Dec 2018
It is slow to scroll R code chunks of an HTML file obtained from kitting an R markdown book (macOS, version 1.0.1).
Midori
Falkon and formally Qupzilla
QupZilla is a new and very fast QtWebEngine browser. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.
Wikipedia. Download: only Windows and Linux binaries are available.
When I tested Falkon-3.0.1.AppImage - for 64-bit Linux on Mint 18.3, it gives an error
10:39AM ~/Downloads$ ./Falkon-3.0.1.AppImage QApplication: invalid style override passed, ignoring it. Could not find QtWebEngineProcess
Misc
Ads: pixels
Cookies
- Firefox: See the Storage tab.