[arch-general] Which browser to use? [was: Firefox user data autofill doesn't work as before]

[Peter Nabbefeld]

Am 09.03.2017 um 04:49 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general:
> On 03/08/2017 10:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Ok I understand, https://aur.archlinux.org/login/ is an insecure web
>> site, since the issue mentioned by the OP happens with this login.
>> However, for my taste it's not a problem to select the user name,
>> but this history problem is an issue for me, as well as the
>> safebrowsing that gets added, even if you removed it. Some of many
>> issues, that are reason for me to use other web browsers. Could you
>> explain what's actually insecure with
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/login/ ? It's a https page, not a http
>> page.
>
> I cannot, in fact, explain what is insecure about
> https://aur.archlinux.org/login/ but this is probably because it works
> perfectly for me...
>
> You are dreaming. Please wake up.
>
>> The history once upon a time worked as the history still works for
>> nearly any other browser. Fortunately there are other browsers we
>> could chose and a lot of people migrated to other browsers. It's not
>> an unrelated rant, since the OP dislikes two changes, I try to
>> explain that many users discontinued using Firefox. By the pulseaudio
>> thread I already mentioned other firefox based and firefox alike
>> projects. That web browser developers go different ways in general is
>> not only an issue for firefox, that's why there's vivaldi ;).
>
> Yes, please let's answer the OP by telling him to find an alternative
> browser. Thanks for clearing that up, I was *wondering* what your post
> was getting at. :)
>
>> However, in regards to security firefox would be the last browser I
>> would use. Java script settings were removed
>
> [...]

So, I wonder why Firefox is in a "preferred" registry (extra), while 
Opera is in "community" and Vivaldi is in "aur".

As far as I can see, Vivaldi is an Opera clone. I cannot see, how to 
replace Google as a search engine in Opera - what about in Vivaldi?

Kind regards
Peter