Best browser these days

Chrome is a little big-brothery these days in auto-disabling extensions not in its Chrome App Store even after manual installation.

I believe Flashblock is no longer updated.

Personally, I use the built-in click to play functionality combined with the Click to play per element addon.

@rei: The dev channel doesn’t do that. I’ve always run the dev channel myself and never had any problems, it seems perfectly stable.

The “fix” I’ve found for this is to install the “Nuke Anything Enhanced” add-on. Go to the add-ons screen and search for “nuke”, it should be the only match you find.

When going to youtube with flashblock or adblock, you have to right-click on the video and select the “Remove this object” option.

What youtube is doing is detecting you have the addon and sticking an invisible frame in front of the video. They only do this on the youtube page – embedded videos elsewhere do not do this. Pay close attention when removing the invisible frame and you should see the “Start” icon change appearance.

stusser - And HTML5 video via MSE sees it all as one element. No-blocking-really-possible fun!

(I’m not kidding when I said all the major browser makers seemed to be pissing me off ><. Well, IE just has no addons and is slow as ****.)

I think I may have to finally move on from Chrome… the Animated GIF thread now causes my browser to freeze up and I have to go through Task Manager to end the process.

Is it because we all have too many chrome addons? Does a completely clean Chrome install/profile behave better?

Not for me. I’ve tried disabling and even uninstalling all add-ons, and still occasionally get the exact same performance catastrophes. Especially with animated gifs. Even a single animated gif.

Firefox running the exact same add-ons does nothing of the sort.

Yeah it is like we are currently at a ‘nothing is perfect’ situation in terms of a good solid browser that does it all smoothly without issues over x. Part of the issue is the ‘fight back’ from the companies that want your personal browser info/advertising access, and any extensions/add-ons you use to thwart that.

I’ve also had mixed performance with the HTML 5 thing, but then i also have occasional issues with Pale Moon as it does not always access every site perfectly (i can’t remember which ones those were, and it may even be a temperamental issue?).

The Chrome situation vexes me. Moving to a new browser is work, and I’d rather stick with the status quo. Especially when it’s obviously a bug and it will get fixed. On the other hand, Chrome will keep bugs for months without a fix, it’s very frustrating.

Anyone else getting horrifically stuttering video on your Facebook Newsfeed, but nowhere else? Mine started doing so in Chrome about two weeks ago. I mean, I never watch the damn things anyway, but it’s pretty jarring to see someone’s dog leaping up and down through what looks a lot like horror movie quick-cuts o.O

I dunno, my FB feed is pretty sanitized already with FB Purity.

In the facebook settings somewhere you can turn off video autoplay IIRC.

It really does show up the fact that the results of HTML5 ain’t what it’s cracked up to be - things are even more tailored to a few browsers, not even rendering engines but browsers, than they were in the past. PM is gecko based but some sites require changing the user agent or they get treated more like IE6. (In at least one site I know of, literally)

The GIF thread just completely froze Chrome, after the usual ridiculous loading time. So I fired up Internet Exploder, and what do you know, it loaded the current page of the GIF thread almost instantly, no perceptible performance problems at all. So yeah, it’s Chrome.

The one thing I like about Firefox over Palemoon is the ‘hidden’ bottom status bar. If I hover over links or whatever, it non-obtrusively will show the full URL, but otherwise there is no bar there. I haven’t found the equivalent in Palemoon yet (granted, I tried for 3min in total - it might be there, it just wasn’t blindingly obvious).

The status bar in FF not staying, well, a bar is one of the primary UI disagreements which lead to Pale Moon in the first place :P

(edit: Although I think the URL comes up even if you hide the status bar, right. I don’t :P)

Whatchu talking 'bout, Gus?

Pale moon

Oh, and do excuse my hiding of all the porn bookmarks.

Lamalo has tweaked some settings in Pale Moon to get that behaviour. Turn status bar off, and then play around with the Status Bar options.

I do believe you’re correct, it’s been a while and I’ve made so many changes to various settings and added quite a few addons to make the browser look and act as I want it to. I was really quite annoyed with firefox when they chromified it with the excessive version bumps and decreasing the number of options to customization. I do remember the seamonkey browser also being pretty decent, but I had some issue with addon support, so it too was ditched.

Thanks, I was just being dense. Right there in status bar options as stated.