Arvid Picciani (2009-11-27 00:38):
Hi, ever since ff3 turned firefox into unusable, i'm on the quest to find a usable browser. Chromium was quite decent for a while (after fixing the dbus dependency) despite it deadlocks when you mouse-move tabs (fortunately i dont do that anyway), but recently it started timing out on every second request. The answer from google was: deactivate your windows firewall, so well.. back to searching a browser. Basicly each and every firefox clone/fork/based browser has the same issues as firefox (100% disk i/o all the time even when idle), so those don't work. webkit based browsers can't render half of the internet properly. i wonder if somone cloned chromiums webkit thing and made a brwoser of it? uzbl is quite decent, i wish they'd use chromes rendering. opera would be awesome if it didn't have billions of popups and their "Upgrade to opera10" popup really made me uninstall opera.
any options left?
With what you wrote above - no, no options. It sounds like you dump software as soon as you encounter any annoyance. Wouldn't it be wiser to workaround them, since annoyances (or small bugs) are always part of everything? I guess writing a browser could teach one to live with bugs... I am sure you can disable those popups in opera (or stay with 9.64 for the time being, if you like opera). What kind of I/O activity do you see with Firefox? How do you measure it? I don't see any problems on my side. What sites were incorrectly rendered with webkit? Also, there's dillo. Small and fast, but no CSS floats, no javascript. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos