Midori actually isn't well maintained -- the latest version was released almost three years ago. In a web browser, that's a significant issue.
I'd recommend using Epiphany (also called "Web") instead. It's the default browser on Raspberry Pi, and elementaryOS switched to it from Midori, too. It's developed as part of the Gnome project.
If you want something Qt-based rather than GTK, I've heard good things about Falkon, also known as QupZilla.
Regarding LibreOffice, I don't think there's any direct alternative. If all you need is plain text, you can use a simple text editor, but if you need formatted text, your options are either LibreOffice, Google Docs in a web browser, or a markup language like TeX or Markdown that you write in a plain text editor and then convert to a PDF or HTML.
AbiWord and Gnumeric used to be recommended to people as alternatives to LO Writer and Calc, and while Gnumeric is doing OK I guess, AbiWord has been a dead project for years.
Then there's also the Calligra suite, but I don't know much about that.
We'll just have to wait and see. If mozilla continues to to remove loved features, i might switch to falkon (https://www.falkon.org/) as my default browser and start writing addons for it. It at least looks to me like a fresh start, but who knows.
> For example, typing in the command line has a significant lag, although, I don't have the same problem when I type in online forms.
Way back, I had a problem were browsing my history was a bit sluggish, but that has since then been fixed (I think by some work by me and changes to qutebrowser). Does qutebrowser feel sluggish in all interactions with the command line, or only when browsing your history? (setting the height/number of potential items, where possible, could perhaps speed up your command line interactions)
Do other browsers and applications feel sluggish when typing? Something like chromium or Falkon in particular?
Qutebrowser hasn't felt slow for me in quite a bit, but I kinda see what you're getting at.
> I love QB, but it crashes my system a lot. Especially if I'm watching YouTube with it.
Likely an issue with your graphic driver and not qutebrowser. Some questions:
xf86-video-intel
installed, have you tried uninstalling it?qt.force_software_rendering
setting?I also think that Firefox is still the best in terms of bullshit, because the others are all based on Google's codebase, which only shows its bullshit when you actually dig deep into it.
Nonetheless, a few which haven't been mentioned yet:
Falkon (formerly Qupzilla)
Midori
Otter Browser
If you can, you should probably put Linux on it. I have a Windows tablet with 2 gigs of RAM (Lenovo Miix 320) and with Windows, it would just lag like crazy. Nothing made it run smooth. Once I threw Kubuntu on it, I can actually use it. There are 2 other light Linux distributions like Lubuntu or Xubuntu as well.
For web browsers, you may want to check out Falkon. https://www.falkon.org/download/ That seems to run somewhat lean, and has a built in adblocker.
For media players, MPV can run pretty light. If it's 32 bit (usually older computers with less than 2 gigs of RAM) https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/32bit/ or 64 bit (usually has 4 or more gigs of RAM, but some computers, like tablets will have 2 gigs of RAM but has a 64 bit processor. Go to your control panel and then go to System> System and it should tell you if you have a 64 bit or 32 bit processor and OS.) https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/32bit/
That's weird... but yeah, antivirus software usually is weird like that. Can you get more information from your network admin, e.g. what network request to where triggered the false-positive?
Also, any chance you can try KDE Falkon (another browser based on QtWebEngine)?
Pelo que diz na topbar, não foi descontinuado, só mudaram de nome pra Falkon. Acabei de baixar aqui e a funcionalidade de mudar o user-agent ainda está presente.
Pode ficar tranquilo que o Qupzilla/Falkon é confiável. Ainda como Qupzilla, era inclusive o navegador padrão do Puppy Linux; agora mudou de nome porque virou um projeto oficial da KDE (que aliás estava precisando de um navegador bom).
EDIT: Só pra deixar claro, baixa o Falkon, que é a versão mais atualizada, e não o Qupzilla. Navegador velho é risco.
They should replace the shared MSHTML library with a Chromium/Blink core, and then make their own simple browser akin Midori or Falcon.
http://midori-browser.org/
https://www.falkon.org/
Basically just a browser without trying to make a framework for things not "web" or to somehow spawn synergies between their doomed day fly projects.
From its About page:
>Falkon is a KDE web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine,
previously known as QupZilla. It aims to be a lightweight web browser
available through all major platforms. This project has been originally
started only for educational purposes. But from its start, Falkon has
grown into a feature-rich browser.
>
>Falkon has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It
includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that,
it has by default enabled blocking ads with a built-in AdBlock plugin.
You can try falkon https://www.falkon.org/download/
It uses the same rendering engine as chrome so should work with most sites, but in comparison a leightweight browser.
Only downsite is that it currently has very few addons. But at least an adblocker is available :)
I use Firefox most the time, but I also have a copy of Falkon. It is built on the Qt WebEngine which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core. Built by KDE for Windows and Linux. It's lightweight and fast.
No sé si funcione para XP, pero no creo que dé problemas.
También podrías probar Falkon, que usa el mismo motor que Qutebrowser con una interfaz similar a la de los demás navegadores.
No sé si funcione para XP, pero no creo que dé problemas.
También podrías probar Falkon, que usa el mismo motor que Qutebrowser con una interfaz similar a la de los demás navegadores.
I think I just replied to you elsewhere, but they have flatpak instructions on their download page
One thing to consider (but I haven't tried it on linux) is homebrew. It's a lightweight supplemental package manager that has a ton of apps. I don't promise it's secure, but I used it a lot on MacOS back in the day, and they say it's Linux-compatible now.
I fixed the parsing here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/6af5ac70648d8cdb4604b5bfae710f5fd47dda32
I'm pretty much out of ideas as far as the login is concerned... Could you check if the same happens with KDE Falkon as well?
Can you test with something like:
qutebrowser --temp-basedir -s content.headers.user_agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36' https://retaillink.login.wal-mart.com/
If that doesn't work, can you test KDE Falkon as well?
Also, do you see any errors in the console when you do :inspector
?
That's odd! Have you ever opened an issue about it? FWIW I suspect something strange with QtWebEngine and/or your graphic drivers going on - do you see something similar with e.g. KDE Falkon which uses the same backend?
Also based on the same engine but with a UI similar to other web browsers is Falkon from KDE.
I still prefer Qutebrowser because of Vim-like keybinds.
The good thing about both is that they are based on QtWebEngine, which is based on Chromium with anything Google related stripped out of it, so most websites should work with it.
Edit: accidentally repeated a word.
Thanks for the hint.
Bad Apple.
I added Falkon to the list of browsers, compared with things on Manjaro Linux and discovered that the Apple Store simply can't be used on FreeBSD.
I'd check out Iridium Browser or Falkon ( https://www.falkon.org/ ), both based on Chromium AFAIK.
Palemoon and Waterfox are both hobbyist browsers.. not sure how I feel about them from a sustainability/0day perspective.
I followed these Falkon instructions, and got errors:
error: Flatpak system operation ConfigureRemote not allowed for user
So I ran it with --user, like:
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo flatpak install --user kdeapps org.kde.falkon flatpak run org.kde.falkon
Falkon works now, unfortunately I lost the original error to my scroll buffer. I'll avoid using "sudo flatpak install" from now on in favor of --user, as I was inconsistent with my "sudo" usage.
I get not wanting to mess around in home directories, but I think Flatpak should have an option to thoroughly clean out everything in under /var. Only to make troubleshooting easier. Like:
sudo flatpak uninstall --factory-reset
> Falkon uses the same rendering engine as Chrome so the browsing experience itself is similar.
> Until version 2.0, QupZilla was using QtWebKit. QtWebKit is now deprecated and new versions are using QtWebEngine.
"Would be nice - more alternatives to Google's adChromium empire."
Falkon is not an alternative, it's just a fancy Qt based Chromium browser frontend (since QtWebEngine is powered by Chromium/Blink and Falkon uses QtWebEngine)
Try Otter Browser, which is open source and based on WebKit, so it is more lightweight than Chromium. Alternatively, try Falkon or K-Meleon.