Snap-less browsers?

[verndog]

My favourite snap-less browser (apart from Firefox): Falkon. :-)

I use to like it years ago. I just downloaded to try again. One thing I prefer is ublock over adblock. It defaults to adblock. It took a while to remove ads from msn.
Interesting points I read on reddit.

[GreyGeek]

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On the other hand, I just started using Brave browser and I think I'm sticking with it! Lots of features and way faster than Chromium has been lately. Current Brave release is based on Version 1.8.96 Chromium: 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I had tried Brave a couple years ago and found that it wasn't complete, and the pay feature got in the way. I just installed it and imported my FF links and login data and WOWZER! What a totally different browser!

It's now my main browser! Thanks for the heads up. I would have taken someone of your caliber to cause me to retry it.

[Don B. Cilly]

What will happen if every application becomes tied to snapd and the apt package will ONLY install apps that have snaps store gpg keys? What IF systemd and snap get linked together, attempting to remove snapd removed systemd?

If that happens (it won't :·) most people will either stop using *buntus (or anything that depends on snaps) or snaps will have a better implementation.
Imagine having all your packages as snaps. How long would it take your system to boot? Half an hour? Not... feasible... :·)

[chimak111]

Given the current confinements, I doubt whether key applications such as file managers will ever be "snapped".

As for the "thousands" of snaps, at least two of the snaps published by KDE didn't work for me: falkon and palapeli.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Nearly forgot about it, but I had used it a lot on 32-bit machines some time ago: Pale Moon.
https://www.palemoon.org/

Just installed it in 20.04 and I still like it somehow. :-)
PPA: https://software.opensuse.org/downlo...ckage=palemoon

[TWPonKubuntu]

I use the Pale Moon browser on all my systems, 64 and 32 bit. I'm satisfied with how it works and I feel safer than with Mozilla's Firefox (Pale Moon is a fork).

[Bings]

https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-...ices-security/ Brave has always struck me as a slightly dodgy sounding gimmick.

[Don B. Cilly]

There's a (nine months old, but newer than the one above) mini-review of Brave by the esteemed Don B. Cilly ;·) on KFN.

[sithlord48]

Yeah Neon could be using all snaps there. But it doesn't mean anything about kde and snaps. KDE software is distributed many ways. It could be the members making the neon stuff wanted to try snaps out since its based on ubuntu snaps work oob where you need to add more for flatpak (another way kde stuff is distributed) I wouldn't dig to deeply into it.

[GreyGeek]

I had tried Brave a couple years ago and found that it wasn't complete, and the pay feature got in the way. I just installed it and imported my FF links and login data and WOWZER! What a totally different browser!

It's now my main browser! Thanks for the heads up. I would have taken someone of your caliber to cause me to retry it.

I'll have to retract my approval of the Brave browser. While it imported my FF links and passwords perfectly, and was fast, I noticed that during the course of the day it would slow down considerably. I also use the Ctl key and the mouse wheel to zoom in on web pages to make them easier for my old eyes to read. Brave became VERY slow at zooming in or back out. Painstakingly slow. I'd roll the wheel and nothing would happen for 5 or 10 seconds, then it would jump too far and I'd have to roll it back out, which was equally delayed. Zooming to the right size was a pain. I finally had enough of it and returned to FF.