The ElementaryOS browser "Web" (which is Gnome Web, FKA Epiphany), is janky when scrolling in Phanpy (it jumps around and sometimes flips rapidly between the before and after states) so I thought I'd try some other browsers.

[fedward@distraction.party]

The ElementaryOS browser "Web" (which is Gnome Web, FKA Epiphany), is janky when scrolling in Phanpy (it jumps around and sometimes flips rapidly between the before and after states) so I thought I'd try some other browsers. Firefox doesn't let you install PWAs as apps without installing a third party extension (which has many negative reviews). Vivaldi does PWAs, but its scrolling speed is different than the system scrolling speed, and it doesn't respect two finger swipes for forward and back. Floorp is a Firefox fork that DOES have PWAs, so Floorp it is! (At least for now).

[gregatron5@vmst.io]

@fedward Have you tried Zen? https://zen-browser.app

[fedward@distraction.party]

@gregatron5 not yet! I like Safari as a daily driver on all my Apple devices, but since I’m trying Linux on some old hardware, I’m on the hunt for a daily driver there.

[gregatron5@vmst.io]

@fedward I main Vivaldi when I use Linux (and it's my "need chrome-based" choice on Mac). I'm not sure there's a good WebKit browser for it. Zen wasn't on my radar last time I spent time on my Linux box, either, so I'll give that a go there at some point, too. I keep it around as a Gecko fallback on my Mac should I ever need one.

[fedward@distraction.party]

@gregatron5 my Mac fallback has just been regular Firefox for a while now. I haven’t used Chrome in years and don’t even have a Chromium browser installed. I ran into a weird problem where the Chrome Updater process was always consuming a bunch of CPU even after a fresh reboot, and the problem persisted across a few uninstall/reinstall cycles. I tried Chrome Canary at the time and still had the same problem, so I just deleted it and never looked back. Safari was so much better at memory management by then anyway, so I didn’t miss it.

[gregatron5@vmst.io]

@fedward Ah. My daughter streams on Twitch and I have some meetings on Google Meet, both of which are shit in Safari, so I use Vivaldi for those and whenever Safari else doesn't seem to work well *cough*makerworld*cough*, which is fortunately increasingly rare. Haven't touched Chrome itself in years, nor do I have any desire to again. I could probably use FF or Zen instead of Vivaldi, but since most sites are “optimized for Chrome" I figure a chromium-based browser is probably less of a hassle.