builtin vpn, privacy, safer to download torrents, i think.

Chromium and I never log in. I build it from scratch for FreeBSD and although it takes a couple hours or so to build, it works very well. I don't care about lightweight, I want functionality, security and I want sites to render properly.

NetSurf is another with classic style. I.e., almost the entire list is either Chromium or clones of its style; can't stand them.

Few others to look at if you are browser surfing.

Basilisk
https://basilisk-browser.org/

Cliqz
https://cliqz.com/

Crusta
https://github.com/Crusta/CrustaBrowser/

Cyberfox
https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/

IceCat
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Lariza
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza/

LibreWolf
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Midori
https://www.midori-browser.org/

NetSurf
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

Slimjet
https://www.slimjet.com/

Surf
https://surf.suckless.org/

Surfer
https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer

Ungoogled Chromium
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

I could run Firefox on multiple x86, x64 and Android without problems. The browser integration with the KDE Plasma Desktop was improved the last year with success. Complements and addons are pretty good. Pocket and password manager are awesome.

Firefox for me...despite all the bad stuff.
I somewhat want to use qutebrowser but for some reason it keeps giving me grief, not working right, but my desire to use it doesn't exceed superficial troubleshooting, and it requires more than that.

Edit:
Ah, yes, python and webkit stuff, always turns me off. Bleh.

The browser I always most use is Firefox, but because my favourite computer is a 32bit one, I at last discovered with pleasure Palemoon, which sadly recently also stopped support for 32bit machines. Still, Palemoon 28.6.1 32bit, is still very up to date, and therefore at the moment my favourite browser.

Where did you get that piece of incorrect information from?

Palemoon is a very popular browser for many of my fellow Puppy Linux users, mainly due to the vast assortment of elderly hardware most of us run.

I'm posting this from the current 32-bit version, in Bionicpup32 8.0. It's up to v28.8.0 ATM.....and, according to the guy who compiles the Linux builds, NewTobinParadigm, having sorted out the 32-bit build environment a couple of months back, the 32-bit Linux version is set to remain 'stable' & 'available' for the forseeable future.

You can get the 'official' versions for both 32- and 64-bit Linux, direct from this Palemoon downloads page:-

http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/


Mike.

Hi Mike. You have no idea how happy I am to be wrong..., well at least till I've succesfully checked the link you've sent here. The information came from Palemoon itself. My 32bit PCLinuxOS 2012 distribution wasn't supported anymore. By the way, PCLinuxOS in any case does not support 32bit computers anymore since some years. I will leave some feedback here once the latest Palemoon test done. In any case thank you very much for your observation. Paul

Yes Mike, you're right ! The latest Palemoon version 28.8.0 does indeed run very well on my 32bit PCLinuxOS 2012 Linux distribution. Meaning I do apologize, and thank you for the useful information. Paul

No worries, mate. There is so much conflicting information out there (and a lot that is simply unclear), that you need to go through everything with a fine tooth-comb....

BTW, I don't know which Puppy you're running, but I build a self-contained, 'portable' version of Palemoon for the community (if you're interested, that is). This can be run from literally anywhere.....even a flashdrive, in the manner of the Windows PortableApps.

You can find the thread for it on the Murga-Linux 'Puppy' Forums, here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=115119

(Don't worry about the fact it's an older version in my cloud a/c; 28-series PaleMoons now auto-update in the same manner as Firefox, so you'll be offered the upgrade to the current 28.8.0 before you've been browsing for very long.)

Just download, and follow the instructions for use in the thread.


Mike.

Thank you Mike. One thing you should know is that Palemoon versions after 28.6.2 did indeed NOT work with 32bit PCLinuxOS ! Meaning it wasn't bad information only... That's why I'm now so happy, and a bit surprised, that version 28.8.0 you mentioned here actually DOES work. By the way : thank you also for the Puppy information. When using Puppy, it's mostly Lupu. Best Wishes man. Paul

You mean they didn't work with your outdated version of PCLinuxOS?

Well, although this is out of topic, everything depend on what is meant with "outdated". For most things I do, the PCLinuxOS 2012 version is not at all outdated. The softwares I use still do the job they were meant to do, and this in the most satisfactory way. Everything is relative man. And by the way, thanks to Mike_Walsh I'm now writing this post with the help of Palemoon's latest version... 32bit, and it works ! The only possible danger would be the Internet, a bit as with AIDS: no danger if one has no sexual contact with other people, or stays in a closed relationship. No offence meant, but many (not all) software updates are useless, annoying and leading to sluggish performances.

This being pointed out, I do have another computer (64bit) running the most up to date version of PCLinuxOS (KDE5 2019-10), but still prefer the older version. I also run other versions of Linux and Windows, even Mac OS 9, depending of my mood and the stuff that needs to be done.

There's objective ways of defining "outdated" - one is surely the distro maintainers stance on that (things like "support cycle" or "end of support" or "end of life", which I could not find on their website on a glance), and another very important one is security from malicious software & intrusions from the internet.