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I am a 20 year linux power user and these browsers are resource hogs that will crash your computer with all the damn crap they load up. After reading your article I get some useful information. To JRichard, Ricossa, David who support Slimjet, Opera, Yandex: you are standing completely naked in the middle of the biggest intersection onin the dead of winter, thinking nobody will notice.
I use yandex for last 10 years. It used to be light and super fast.. Now it takes almost 1 gig of space to install it and it is an absolute crap.. Very, very slow is the main feature on both: windows and Ubuntu Google Chrome and FireFox would definitely be on this list and also on every browser list. Opera can also be very useful. It is chromium based and has a lot of extra features.
Thank you for your Iridium overview. Opera offers a built in vpn id say they are one of the few who probably are NOT tracking your ever move. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. By Staff Writer. Featured Linux. Best Ubuntu Web Browsers 1. Chromium or Google Chrome 2. Firefox 3. Midori 4. Opera 5. Vivaldi 6. Qupzilla 7. Brave 8. Pale Moon Browser 9. SeaMonkey Waterfox Web Epiphany Re Lite version I suspect some people will want some features removed and other people would want them retained.
Libre, X, Desktop …. I realise that deleting from a full fat version is not as ideal from a technical point of view as selecting things to add, but I suspect that the community might be able to assist easier. Any reason why new image does not appear to completely shut down? Power remains to video and network interface after system halted. Also no series of blinking lights which I always used as a signal it was safe to cut mains power.
A correction on my previous comment. They arrived this morning! Visited the site to download Raspian now find a brand new version.
My Birthday really has come early! This is my third Raspberry Pi and with each generation, not only has the hardware speed increased, but also the delivery time. I use Pis headless, using VNC to access a desktop. This also gives me ssh access to a command line. I ran raspi-config with nothing special but when I tried to install tightvncserver I just got error messages about temporary failure resolving mirrordirector. Sudo apt-get update failed with similar errors. Is the update not fully configured yet or something?
Those that need a striped down version and command line access will have sufficient skills to prune and configure that requirement until the official minimal version is available.
May I respectfully ask why sudo was such a big deal to people using RPi. In what way is it more beginner friendly? Less confusing and one fewer things to take into account when teaching.
Also, every time you use sudo you risk your code doing things to the system that were not intended. For two, lots of schools might prefer to not have it by default on the Pi. For three, it takes up room that a lot of users might want for other things. I think booting to the GUI is a strange mood. When Ebon was first talking about the Raspberry pi he talked at length about how children today are disconnected from the underlying hardware and code of the machine.
The fact that you had to StartX into the machine shows kids that there is something behind the fancy graphics. Even if 99 out of kids just skip straight to the GUI there will always be that one that wants to know more. I do like to see the capabilities of the Pi Increased, I own 3 after all.
Thank you for the hard work, all of you. It looks nice, but makes live for people setting up school environments more difficult. I need to prepare 14 workplaces for kids, and burning SD cards now takes much more time. In wheezy, raspi-config started automatically.
Great for administrators. Now I have to wait till desktop is up and start it from there. If you need to use this path 14 times you really start to dislike it. And when finally the cards are up and running, I remove all the xtra packages like minecraft and libreoffice and sonic which are not needed for the workshop.
Which takes again time. For each SD card. People usually tell me: prepare a sd card and duplicate. Works if each and any of the card is identical.
What you do not have in real live I agree that from an end user point of view it looks appealing. But please offer also a smaller, more manageable version for the admins. Last not least, when in scratch I use the help menu, I get libreoffice started in edit mode for the help html. Not a good idea. You can do the exercise once, make a backup of the SD card once you are happy, then clone it 13 times…….
I expected this comment. It works in few cases, but if the particular SD cards you have differ in sector number, you are lost and have to do it again completely manual for the affected cards. I ran into this multiple times, and decided this approach is too expensive.
And: when file system is extended, cloning means that burning the sd card takes much longer. Then you extend on each system and should work even if there is slight variation with the total free space on each card type. Do once. Re-image and then check out this guide from Les Pounder on writing to multiple SD cards at the same time. You may want to have a look at PiNet, would make that process quite a bit easier and is free and open source.
Hi GHP. I wrote a how-to on shrinking SD card images for this exact purpose — making them smaller and thus quicker to copy to multiple cards for a classroom. As described above, there is a Wheezy to Jessie upgrade path, but it is unsupported — there are a huge number of files changed between the two systems, and we have no way of knowing whether changes made by users to their own Raspbian install will clash with some part of the Jessie update.
Have a look at the forum post linked above, and make sure you back up first if you try it. Unfortunately, there are just too many files changed in an update from Wheezy to Jessie to be able to guarantee a problem-free update for every user. Thanks Simon. If I understand you correctly, updating my Pi with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade will automatically result in a Jessie update? So there is no further life for Wheezy — or will Wheezy continue to be maintained for a limited time in future?
If you want to upgrade to jessie you will need to change your apt sources. Updates that can be automatically pulled from Debian will likely continue to get pulled from Debian until Debian stops making them available. However packages that have been modified either by the raspbian project or by the raspberry pi foundation are less likely to get updates. The only negative thing I would say is that the size of the image is getting very big, but having all the additional software available more than makes up for that.
Although it was easy enough to add software before using apt-get update if you have easy access to broadband that is not the case everywhere especially where Raspberry Pis are being used off-network eg.
The boot to command line made sense with the original aim which was predominately targetting teenagers, but these days we are teaching programming to much younger children. My 7 year old son was taking his first steps in Python recently. Booting to desktop removes one more barrier and makes it more user friendly. Removing the requirement for sudo to access the GPIO is a big bonus, as that means code can be run directly from the editor currently IDLE without needing to get to the command line first.
If you take memory for 2 displays it leaves only a small amount available to the OS, thus the performance will decrease. I think first priority is allowing switching between the two. Even when designing for a small screen it may be useful to temporarily switch to the standard HDMI eg for a presentation or to develop on a larger screen.
It is possible to use both display outputs at the same time, but it does require software to choose the right display.
Omxplayer is one application that has been modified to enable secondary display output. Feature request 2: Midnight Commander installed as default. This is of course easier sudo apt-get install mc.
The zip problem seems like a totally unnecessary problem. I finally managed to unzip and install the image. I have since installed a couple of packages, but df shows lots of unused space. Any tips? Is there a special repository that I need to configure to get the gui, or some other magic incantation that I need to perform?
I very much appreciate this step because some of the software bugs in the programs coming with wheezy already bite me. I own eight Raspberry Pis and have about a dozen different raspian installations on SD cards. There is a small cluster, a DNS server etc. Some hours of installation and configuration went into them.
Backups done on an irregular basis. Imagine my frustration when I hear that there is no supported upgrade path from wheezy to jessie. After all being able to keep a system up-to-date without reinstallations is one of the most important Debian merits. Back them up and try the upgrade process. We are not officially supporting it for the simple reason that there are a huge number of changes between Wheezy and Jessie, and we have no way of testing it on every single customised Wheezy install out there.
I already have to edit my config. Looking forward to the lite image for my compute module, but really would like still to have it to boot direct to GUI, will that be possible on the lite image? Kind regards Chris. Will it it then be possible to install X on the lite image on compute module afterwards? Only the GUI not Office and all the other stuff…. Given that apt is used to install all the major applications, it should remove them reasonably cleanly. Recently I was fairly happy, that kodi has been added to the official repo.
However it seems it got kicked again. No more kodi in raspbian? Any chance of being able to get a bootsplash i. Plymouth working on Jessie? The change to systemd seems to be preventing it from loading. I need to have Chromium in order to have Flash so I can run and edit Scratch 2-projects. This works well in Raspbian Wheezy on Raspberry Pi 2. Is it possible to run and edit Scratch 2-projects in Raspbian Jessie? Can someone please point me in the direction of some sources for these new preferences utilities?
OCD is not liking all these small inconsistent panels. I have a Pi 2 for playing with on which I put the new version as soon as I read about it; and on a new project I will use whatever is the current version at the time. I tried it for a few weeks, hated it, ripped out Win10 and went back to Win7 Ultimate.
Total cost? Nothing, I sold an older laptop for more than I paid for the new one!! I have a minimal install of Jessie from Raspbian that I generated with debootstrap for hosting purposes. Thank you Amin for drawing my attention to QT5, I just installed it as it looks interesting and useful.
The underlying Jessie system is the same; what is different is the additional applications we add, plus tweaks to the desktop user interface, new configuration panels, new plugins for the menu bar etc. Which version of Java have you packaged? Congrats for the good work. Also had a similar problem. Worked fine on the desktop. Reconfigured to boot to the command line. UK keyboard was back. Ran commandline version of raspi-config and then both CLI and desktop has the right keyboard.
I also had this problem — setup my K keyboard for US english using the GUI and all looked ok, but when I rebooted, I got the GB version back — so my hash symbols became pound symbols among other funny substitutions…. Imagine teachers teaching web development, and students only need a RPI for all. Average user I think prefer this too. And those who blame the change are those who knows how to revert it. I mean progress?!?? And which way works best. I presume one should mount the old card as a flash drive?
The problem is there is a Fat volume and a linux volume. Perhaps giving the option in Noobs of not installing certain components might help here. This is important point. Now those are getting obsolete just because of bloated operating system install.
Let people themself choose what they need. Is Minecraft really so important for education? Actually, it does but it loops back to the login screen! Model B, k My faithful first, still chugging along. Virgin Jessie in 8GB card. Boots fine. Fine so far. First I added the Desktop Pager to the Panel. Uh-oh… right-click on it to add more desktops, and what do I find? From here on, all done in a jumble on one desktop…. To do this, I created a new item under System Tools, with the same details as the original, and clicked OK though in the process I found no means of associating an Icon!
This should have created an item in the Main Menu with perhaps a default icon? Nothing shows. It should, by default! A bit deeper: Mozilla stuff? Icedove is similarly eminently usable.
Then trying to build xastir — a breeze in Wheezy, but errors galore in Jessie. On the GUI, in parenthesis, is says dhcpcdui … what happened to wicd and the older one?
Can I access it via the cli? Raspian Jessie works very well, but I had to install obconf OpenBox Configuration Manager to have two desktops to switch between. I now use the latest Chromium from Ubuntu This with p screen. Thankfully the extra desktop s remain when the dialogue is closed.
One of the tricks of the cognoscenti — thanks! When you choose some menu items e. The best would be if a web-browser that can run Java applets opened. Epiphany and Iceweasel can run Java applets if you install icedtea-plugin , but none of the scenarios worked due to some runtime exception. Scratch 2 runs in the browser using Flash.
We stuck with Scratch 1. Why not use Snap! It also runs in the browser but it is based on Javascript instead of Flash. Snap seems to be very buggy. One can convert Scratch 1. It works better in Iceweasel without Flash, but is also buggy. Older versions fail as well. If you have configure your temp folders into a fast but small device, check if it can handle 5GB. If it is smaller, configure 7zip to use the local folder and not temp.
Very well done to everyone at the foundation on a very successful Distro Rollout — Jessie is the new sheriff in town ;0. Real VNC works fine; loads at boot and runs in virtual mode.
Great job! Just trying it out after using the new GUI to configure it. I am using as I type and think it looks great. Looking forward to getting under the hood and really checking this thing out. Keep up the good work.
Kudos to the Pi Towers team. It means a lot. Time is money, so they say. Please keep up the good work! Install obconf and set for 4 desktops all needed here! For usability, surely on setting more than one Desktop there should be a Pager show automatically in the Panel?
I manually installed and put mine between System Tray and dhcpcd, bracketed by spacers. Looks good and works well…. Is there any documentation for this support? Well spotted! I installed Jessie and I must say there are some drawbacks:. No cross inside, just a slightly different shadow. Very hard to hit the scrollbar with your mouse cursor.
Below are listed some best web browsers which are just perfect to be listed here. Usually, the features which distinguish a normal to a good browser are — Ability to support all types of data including audio, video, flash and HTML and HTML5, fast performance, memory friendly to adjust to old and new systems completely, ability to support maximum architectures like Intel, AMD and operating systems like: Windows, Mac, Unix-like, BSD to name a few.
It forked from Chromium whose code is modified with certain add-ons to structure it. It uses the WebKit layout engine till version 27 and Blink thereafter. Features provided by Chrome include — bookmarking and synchronization, enhanced security, malware blocking, and addition of external plugins like AdBlock, etc available in Google Web Store which is provided as a default extension in Chrome.
Also, it supports user tracking feature which can be enabled if required. It is fast because of the inbuilt mechanism it uses, also is very stable with tabbed browsing, speed dials and incognito private browsing mode, provides custom themes that can be installed as an extension from the web store.
It is widely accepted as one of default browser which can be found in almost all systems, with mostly positive reviews.
Since its introduction, it has been praised for its speed and security add ons and even is often termed as the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator. Features supported by Firefox include: tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, private browsing, add-on support which allows easy integration of many features.
It has been one of the popular web browsers in many Asian and African countries with more than a billion users around the world. Another popular web browser, Opera is one of the earliest ones we have to date, with the initial version released in , 25 years ago. It uses the Blink web engine, whereas earlier versions used Presto. Features of this browser include: speed-dial for quick search, tabbed browsing, downloads manager, Page Zooming which allows Flash, Java, and SVG to be increased or decreased as per user requirements, deletion of HTTP cookies, browsing history and other data on click of a button.
Despite its criticism for compatibility, and other UI related issues, it has been one of the favorite browsers with a total of around 2. Vivaldi is a new feature-rich cross-platform, freeware web browser that incorporates an Opera-like interface with a Chromium open-source platform, which was first officially launched on April 6, , by Vivaldi Technologies and it is developed on web technologies such as HTML5, Node.
As of March , Vivaldi has 1. Vivaldi offers a minimalistic user interface with simple icons and fonts, and a color pattern that alters based on the background and design of the web sites being visited. It also enables users to customize the interface elements such as the overall theme, the address bar, start pages, and tab positioning. It is designed with a minimalistic user interface so as to make it lightweight and fast. Apart from Google Chrome, Chromium also forms a base for a large number of other Web Browsers some of which are still active while others have been discontinued.
With an initial stable release in and the latest stable release being in July Midori has been mentioned as one of the alternative web browsers for Linux by LifeHacker and many other sites including TechRadar, ComputerWorld, and Gigaom.
It provides all the functions of a modern web browser including Speed Dial, built-in Ad Block feature, bookmark management, etc. Additional features that would make you opt this browser include Performance Optimization with memory consumption lower than most famous web browsers including Firefox and Google Chrome.
Its rendering abilities are unquestionable and better than most web browsers which highlight its performance optimization.
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