What is you preferred internet-browser?

[drhowarddrfine]

Fun fact: Marc Andreessen wrote Mosaic which became Netscape which became Firefox. Microsoft licensed Mosaic for the early versions of Internet Explorer. So Andreessen essentially wrote both browsers.

Another fun story. In 1992, I worked at Silicon Graphics and would sometimes be eating lunch when founder James Clark would come down and eat among us. I overheard a conversation he was having about talking with a guy about a graphical interface for the web. I had no clue then what they were talking about but I now know "the guy" was Marc Andreessen and the graphical interface was Firefox (Mozilla).

 

[GlitchyDot]

Cant wait to get hands on Orion Web Browser. New browser build on Webkit-based

 

[fernandel]

Cant wait to get hands on Orion Web Browser. New browser build on Webkit-based

Did you try it? I did and after 10 minutes delete.

 

[GlitchyDot]

Did you try it? I did and after 10 minutes delete.

No, ill wait till we have it in FreeBSD ports.
P.s. why did you deleted ? hows browser in general ?

 

[fernandel]

No, ill wait till we have it in FreeBSD ports.
P.s. why did you deleted ? hows browser in general ?

I did try on the phone. It is fast, many settings. It will support Firefox and Chrome extensions but not yet on iPhone. I open FreeBSD web page than complain about that it doesn't have reader and I had enough and delete. Maybe I will try again one day. Firefox Focus and Safari work for what I am using, I am not so much on the phone.

 

[SDK Chan]

No, ill wait till we have it in FreeBSD ports.
P.s. why did you deleted ? hows browser in general ?

Do you want to give it a try, and port it ?

 

[jb_fvwm2]

Back in the day of dial-up my preferred browser was opera. Then later, it was seamonkey til that got removed from ports. Then, falkon. Now, firefox, but... only because falkon segfaults since the February kf6 kf5 qt6 qt5 megabump(s). [ sometimes it stays up only a few seconds with "about:falkon" or some page showing ] I did a
ldd on falkon and turned up TONS of libraries. Then, EACH of those in turn depends on tons of others. Any way to know if one of the libraries reinstalled can be a fix or if the port Makefile could be improved or if the port itself is at fault? At this point with all the hours i have spent so far I am up to paying a bounty*. Started on v13 STABLE and persists on v14 STABLE... falkon is SMOOTHER with many tabs than firefox... and plays sound on youtube which here firefox does not, either on v 13 or on v 14...
* like if someone reading this thread has a fiverr account... and runs FreeBSD stable 14...

 

[Espionage724]

It would be cool if the BSD community developed its own cutting edge web browser

Is it really that hard to slap WebKit or other renderer into something light cross-OS, and just render webpages?

I recall making a browser in Visual Basic early 2000s