/wbg/ - Web Browser General

[Evan Walker]

This thread is for the discussion of anything regarding web browsers.

Creating this in hope that it will stop new threads about web browsers every 10 minutes

[Isaiah Phillips]

Firefox 52 comes out in 3 weeks, death of plugins begins.

[Xavier Parker]

There's still time to switch to pale moon.

[Eli Thomas]

Good idea OP

What's better, Firefox Nightly or Icecat?

[Landon Turner]

haven't had any problems with chromium on arch, but firefox has been slow and laggy, especially with scrolling. Anything I can do? Hardware accel. is disabled

[Caleb Gonzalez]

>death of plugins
what about addons?

[Asher Allen]

Thanks!

Personally I'd go with Nightly because of the fast updates. Although I'd say you should keep a secondary browser around just in case if nightly breaks.

[Noah Torres]

That will happen at the end of this year.

[Anthony Flores]

I'm firefox fanboy for 13 years now and considering one of the alternatives. What are the benefits and differences with nightly / waterfox / pale moon / whatever the fuck, and will they fuck up my extensions?

Is "better security" a meme?

[Benjamin Parker]

That's what I thought. That image of browser tiers that's always floating aroung has Icecat on the same level as Nightly though, which is weird cause I thought Icecat was just Firefox with all free images

Also this general should be a place to talk about search engines too imo