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Re: [LUG] Lug meet Saturday

 

On 19/04/2020 07:58, Neil wrote:
Thanks for all that information. My copy of Waterfox Classic also worked so it would seem that that can be added to the list.  I had never realised just how many browsers there are.
That's a bit more nuanced than you might think as under the covers there 
are only 3 or 4 main rendering engines - the new Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, 
Brave and many others are simply wrapped around the Chrome engine 
(blink). Seamonkey and Waterfox/Palemoon _are_ Firefox (gecko). Similar 
story in Apple land where everything is webkit.
There are _way_ more browsers out there than you think - literally 
hundreds - but surprisingly few differences under the hood if you know 
what you're looking at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
https://medium.com/@Marabyte/on-browser-monoculture-2ba7885f88e6

I was going to install Palemoon/Waterfox on the throwaway Mint VM I was using for Julian's wifi fixes the other day just to see what you were so happy about but that was the *exact* moment I ran into my weird new "VMs have borked package manager network traffic".
The more I think about it I've got to assume that the whole debacle is 
therefore somehow your fault. Your stupid browser broke my network and 
that's before I even installed it!
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