On Wednesday 19 August 2020 14:12:39 Janek Stolarek wrote:
I did try
Vivaldi, and it has some good things about it; however, it is
not exactly free/libre, GNU/Linux, Richard-Stallman-approved.
Indeed. The team claims that although the code is not on a Free license
(aside from Chromium modifications, which are BSD license), but it is
openly available for inspection:
https://vivaldi.com/source/
Vivaldi makes connections to gezillions of
different IP addresses.
I would be guessing it queries external sites for data needed to provide
functionality like ad blocking (it needs to regularly update the ad
filters), etc. Firefox seems no better here, I think.
No, certain browsers typically make lots of connections like this: Chromium,
for example, but Vivaldi is worse. In a nutshell, it usually comes down to
the degree to which they are proprietary versus free/libre. (I am not saying
that this is the actual "cause"; it is probably just a coincidence that keeps
happening, again and again and again.)
Mozilla-type browsers do not display such behavior; although, I ought to
qualify my statement, this is *after* I have modified it quite a bit, making
dozens of changes in about:config and elsewhere.
Otherwise,
have you considered other Mozilla-based browsers, such as
Icecat
I haven't heard about Icecat. I will take a look.
There is also PaleMoon, as well as a few others,
and most of these
preserve some of the old Mozilla features that we have missed.
I do have Palemoon, which I primarily use when I need to download huge
files. Palemoon has the Flashgot plugin, which intergates with Trinity's
KGet allowing to easily redirect links to TDE's download manager. It's a
pity that when Firefox moved to Quantum it left behind so many good
extensions that have not been replaced until now and most likely will never
be replaced.
I am sure you have your own reasons for choice of
browser, so I will
refrain from rants against proprietary or "non-free" software.
I do prefer my software open source and only go for closed source when
there's really a significant difference in software quality.
Janek
I keep repeating, I am not really an evangelist for GNU/Linux; I am only
interested in what works. If "non-free" software just worked (and did not
leave obvious traces of how it is actually working against its users), then I
would probably still be running Windoze or the rotten Apple.
Again, it is probably just a coincidence that I prefer free/libre and
GNU/Linux, because coincidentally it just works.
Bill
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