2010. 11. 29
Galeon + Privoxy = nice!
After getting increasingly annoyed with Firefox and its crazy memory leaks, I temporarily switched to Opera. After dealing with the ugly QT layout (by using the beautiful “tango” skin), it was mostly enjoyable. But some issues cropped up (horrible javascript performance mostly), so I went to look for another browser.
I looked through Ubuntu’s applications, and tried Galeon, Epiphany and w3m.
- w3m is awesome, but for my work I really need a graphical browser with JavaScript support
- Epiphany seemed to lack features I felt I needed
- Galeon looked OK, and soon proved to be my favorite
The biggest thing missing from all of them was AdBlock support. But after some googling, I found a lead to Privoxy. What a find! It’s absolutely painless to install, and Gnome has a global http proxy setting, which makes Privoxy immediately useful for every browser I care to use. Brilliant!
Life is good again :-)
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