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  1. January 22nd, 2009 10:54 AM #1
    Thasifrew
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    Browser Recommendations

    I'm looking for a new web browser to call my own, having long since dismissed IE as bloatware and throwing FF3 and its godawful "smart bar" with it. Even FF2 is starting to get on my nerves.

    What I want in a browser:
    1) Secure (no stored data, no cookies, etc)
    2) Runs Javascript if I ask it to.
    3) Very light on resources.
    4) Otherwise featureless, or allows features to be disabled.

    Anything ring a bell? I've looked briefly at Opera but the endless releases put me off --as if the application has never left beta. And Safari... well, it's an Apple product, and I'm yet to find anything by Apple worth using (except for their first visual UI, which changed the world).

    Thanks!
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  2. January 22nd, 2009 11:06 AM #2
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    You know, I am really not a fan of the smart bar either.

    I'm fine with it guessing from my history and my bookmarks, but guessing from the entire internet is annoying. I've looked for ways to change the way the smart bar works, but I've failed.
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  3. January 22nd, 2009 11:15 AM #3
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    I managed to disable its appearance, but from what I can tell it still performs the SQL searches no matter what:

    Disabling the Smart Bar (sort of)
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  4. January 22nd, 2009 02:12 PM #4
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    I like OPERA. The endless releases dont' bother me a bit and it's nice knowing I've far far less chance of being infected with anything thanks to the 99% of things that exploit Explorer bugs. there are problems with some secure websites, but that's a problem you can work around when you find those cases.
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  5. January 22nd, 2009 05:12 PM #5
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    Re: Browser Recommendations

    Originally posted by reysan
    What I want in a browser:
    1) Secure (no stored data, no cookies, etc)
    2) Runs Javascript if I ask it to.
    3) Very light on resources.
    4) Otherwise featureless, or allows features to be disabled.
    For 1, have you considered running some browser inside a VMWare session? If you get the free VMWare Player and download their browser appliance, that'll give you a completely guaranteed no-stored-data setup (as soon as you close the appliance, ALL data that it's saved will be wiped out - obviously if you want to download a file to your real hard drive, you'll need to follow VMWare's specific rules for sharing files between appliance and computer).

    For 2, any modern browser will do. But this cuts out options like HTMLayout.

    3 and 4 kinda cut out most modern browsers though. Sorry.

    Chrome is great at point 3, fails point 4, passes point 2, but probably fails 1.

    Opera passes 2, is reasonably alright at 3, fails 4, but probably passes 1.

    I don't know of anything that passes all four. Good luck... if you find one that does, let us all know, because I think that browser would be ideal for a lot of people.
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  6. January 22nd, 2009 05:54 PM #6
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    There's actually a firefox addon that reverts the smart bar back to the original firefox address bar. That was my biggest problem with FF3 too. If i can find the link Ill post it.
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  7. January 22nd, 2009 06:15 PM #7
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    Originally posted by Ilusan
    There's actually a firefox addon that reverts the smart bar back to the original firefox address bar. That was my biggest problem with FF3 too. If i can find the link Ill post it.
    Cool. Please do!
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  8. January 22nd, 2009 06:44 PM #8
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    Originally posted by Aristotle
    Cool. Please do!
    Seconded.
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  9. January 30th, 2009 11:19 AM #9
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    Found this, but I can't make heads or tales of even which pack to install. Anyone feel like giving it a spin?

    Dillo browser
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  10. January 30th, 2009 08:14 PM #10
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    A quick edit. This add-on reverts back to FF2 not FF. Still, much better in my opinion. Sorry it took me a while...i kind of forgot about this.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637
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