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I do observe that youtube seems to work a little better with the latest google chrome on Linux, but only if you have 1.5G or ram or more. It seems to suck some ram, but with that ram it does seem to do video better.
Have you other processes chewing up ram?
Unfortunately a lot of things can influence in-browser video playback -- other things eating CPU or RAM, too many flash objects loaded in various tabs/windows (a lot of ads contain flash these days), ill-written javascript loaded in other tabs, etc. Try closing some AJAXy tabs and killing your flash plugin process (it will respawn when you reload the youtube tab).
No problems here either. Like ttk said I would also recommend using something like NoScript to stop javascript-loaded sites from eating up your CPU power.
this - which browser is lightweight(*) enough, yet does what i want - has been a constant dilemma for me for years...
the cons for both palemoon and firefox are opposite and obvious and seem to exactly outweigh their opposite pros...
i think i would have switched to a chromium-based browser long ago, if:
- there was a guarantee that it doesn't phone home to google (or in fact anywhere)
- all the addons i am depending on would exist in equal quality as for firefox (**)
- i wouldn't have to visit the google playstore to install them.
(*) i want to go on using NOT gtk3 and ALSA
(*) yes, i'm using palemoon. most addons can be installed straight from the addon pages (although some think they're incompatible, but one can just click "Install anyway" becasue palemoon devs have put some work into the compatibility), a few have separate versions for palemoon.
so please tell me, is it possible to have the user experience resulting from these addons:
- https everywhere
- noscript
- requestpolicy
on a non-firefox browser?
this - which browser is lightweight(*) enough, yet does what i want - has been a constant dilemma for me for years...
the cons for both palemoon and firefox are opposite and obvious and seem to exactly outweigh their opposite pros...
i think i would have switched to a chromium-based browser long ago, if:
- there was a guarantee that it doesn't phone home to google (or in fact anywhere)
- all the addons i am depending on would exist in equal quality as for firefox (**)
- i wouldn't have to visit the google playstore to install them.
(*) i want to go on using NOT gtk3 and ALSA
(*) yes, i'm using palemoon. most addons can be installed straight from the addon pages (although some think they're incompatible, but one can just click "Install anyway" becasue palemoon devs have put some work into the compatibility), a few have separate versions for palemoon.
so please tell me, is it possible to have the user experience resulting from these addons:
- https everywhere
- noscript
- requestpolicy
on a non-firefox browser?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,154
Rep:
I've been using blink (chromium) based Vivaldi, along with widevine to stream video from Netflix.
This morning, after reading through this thread, I noticed that even if you manually clean all personally data, including the cache, the cache or whatever is holding the information, is not really cleared. So, I went to the app store and installed Click&Clean which I've used with Firefox and Pale Moon. It adds a new wrinkle. Once you tell Click&Clean to clear your data, it automatically opens a new tab and takes you to the google search page. I couldn't find a way to turn that off, so I removed Click&Clean and will continue to only use Vivaldi for Netflix. I don't trust it for anything else.
so please tell me, is it possible to have the user experience resulting from these addons:
- https everywhere
- noscript
- requestpolicy
on a non-firefox browser?
https everywhere is available. If you don't want to get it from the Chrome addons store, you can download it directly from the EFF (towards the bottom of the page).
I don't think noscript itself is available, but there is something called ScriptSafe, which I imagine is similar. Again, if you don't want it from the Chrome addons store, you can grab the zip from their github, extract it to a folder. Then, you'll probably need to enable developer mode for extensions, which should allow you to install an unpacked extension or to pack and extension. The first would install it from a folder, the second would take the content from a folder and create the .crx file, which you could then install normally.
I'm not sure if there's any equivalent extension of requestpolicy, but it looks like uMatrix might handle both noscript and requestpolicy in one extension. You can actually import your whitelists from both into uMatrix. He has instructions on how to install it manually, which is basically a much better worded version of what I wrote above.
So, if you can find a Chromium-based browser that fits your needs, it looks like your extension needs will hopefully be fulfilled.
thank you, bassmadrigal, for the detailed answer.
recommending uMatrix might have just been what I was looking for.
i will have to venture into this developer mode to install addons.
in the past, i had been interested in the inox set of patches for chromium; for archlinux users there's a PKGBUILD on the AUR, which makes things much easier.
unfortunately it hasn't been updated for a while, we'll have to see if it still compiles with the newest chromium.
Here is an example of what I mean. Fast to others might mean slow to me and vice versa. I have 4GB ram on this system, this is my wife computer. Its a HP Pavilion dv2000. Mines is a C700 Compaq with 2GB. I was asking what type of tweaks/optimization you use to get it to load and run smoothly? I can always avoid it, but I thought I would give it a second chance. The images should be self-explanatory. Look at the time in the images as well in the upper right corener.
Last edited by PROBLEMCHYLD; 07-29-2017 at 08:45 PM.
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