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### Re: web-browser

by nadir » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:19 pm

Yeah, that's better.
Mainly scrolling is way less sluggish.
Have come to think that the main problem may be facebook (else i only use phpbb-forums, wikipedia and such. So it might well be that twitter and such is borked too, but as i don't use it ... )
in general the desktop graphics seem to be very sluggish. I didn't realize, cause i usually don't move windows around.
I had such problems years ago, julian67 knew how to handle it, but it didn't help that much. With a certain upgrade it was better (kernel or such, i don't know).
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memtest reported no errors.
looked at uzbl web-browser. Too confusing and it didn't help (as far facebook is concerned).
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### Re: web-browser

by fsmithred » Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:16 am

If you're using on-board graphics, you might check how much memory is allocated to it (in the bios) and maybe increasing it would help.
One other browser that a lot of people like and hasn't been mentioned is Opera. I haven't tried it.

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### Re: web-browser

by nadir » Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:42 am

Good point.
The bad news: the desktop has 4 Gigs and 800 MB are allocated for the onbard chipset ...
Yeah, i recall opera. I think it isn't in the repos, i tried it back then (it was good, as far i remember, though not better than iceweasel, hence i sticked to iceweasel).
I'd really like to test midori. It seems to be in testing. How do i upgrade to testing?
I inserted "asci" in sources.list, but that is not available.
Inserting "testing" instead worked, of course, but i was not sure if i may run into systemd by that.
A mini-how-to-do-it is sufficient (assuming that is possible).
... keep in mind that i am on the path of becoming a Tai-Chi Master; as of now single-whip ... This LInux thing is really just a hobby ... (iow: keep it simple ).
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### Re: web-browser

by golinux » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:37 am

> nadir wrote:I'd really like to test midori. It seems to be in testing. How do i upgrade to testing?
> I inserted "asci" in sources.list, but that is not available.

Maybe it didn't work because it's ascii not asci.
Do look at this page especially Upgrade-to-Devuan. Here's the basics:

> Comment out all lines in the sources.list configuration file and add the Devuan repository. Substitute jessie for ascii or ceres if you want to migrate to those branches instead. Note that Devuan does not currently have it's own security updates mirror.

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### Re: web-browser

by dzz » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:05 pm

Good results here using "flashblock" extention for weasel/firefox. It's easily configurable to allow only what you need (as is noscript). There are a lot of web posts describing other mozilla performance tweaks.
You don't need to run testing for midori, it's in jessie backports.
Anything *systemd* is not installable (nor is anything that depends on it) with apt preferences set as in refracta8.
**** 4G RAM! Doing fine here, only 1 with an old intel core 2 (and posting from a refracta8 live snapshot, several weasel tabs open)

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### Re: web-browser

by golinux » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:35 pm

After I powered down last night I thought midori might be in backports. You might also check the mepis repos.
And for browsing sanity - AdblockPlus and a flash blocker are a must
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### Re: web-browser

by nadir » Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:05 pm

Yeah, i got noscript installed (+ adblock, cookeimonster, https-everywhre and thats it).
installing midori from backports right now and will lock at it later.
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I'd say that 4 Gigs is even more than fine (i seldom use more than 500 MB of RAM, 400 of them for iceweasel ... ).
As far processors are concered: i barely know anything about them.
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### Re: web-browser

by nadir » Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:35 pm

Ok, tried midori too.
The main problem seems to be facebook, not the browser. While all other sites load way faster with netsurf, konqueor, midori and uzbl, facebook is the same on all browser (but not the firefox version fsmithred posted earlier. I assume facebook has got hard times with non-standard browsers?).
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Any tips about midori (mainly blocking flash and ads and managing cookies) are welcome.
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### Re: web-browser

by golinux » Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:32 pm

Did you ever get the address of the backports repo? It was just posted over on #devuan:

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  `deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie-backports main contrib non-free`

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### Re: web-browser

by nadir » Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:37 pm

No, i didn't get it. Thanks.
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