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Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> On 11/07/2017 01:50 PM, Will Mengarini wrote:
>> * Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> [17-11/07=Tu 07:20 -0500]:
>>>> I am running Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (64 bit) on my [up-to-date
>>>> Stretch platform.  When] I attempt opening Intellicast,
>>>> either with Speeddial or tying the URL, Firefox crashes.
>>>> 
>>>> This just started happening yesterday
>>>> and there are no warnings or errors.

[snipped lots of (well-deserved) web 2.0 hate]

> I appreciate the replies.
>
> I'm probably going to have to change browsers, although I like the way the 
> Firefox handles Speeddial.

It is my understanding that fancy package management tools that I
don't use myself (like aptitude, synaptic, etc) can search for
packages that Provide 'www-browser', or for packages with Tag
'web::browser'.  Maybe somebody familiar with such fancy tools can
chime in and explain how to do this.

Myself, I search for web browser packages like so:

  $ apt-cache search web browser | grep -i 'web.*browser'

On stretch, main repo only, this returns about 60-odd results with
lots of false positives.

Out of those results, these are packaged web browsers in stretch main
that I can recall using and not hating:

uzbl (NB: see /usr/share/doc/uzbl/keybindings.html)
conkeror (haven't used this one since wheezy.)
konqueror (it's been ages since I used it.)
epiphany-browser
surf
lynx (no interpretation of javascript; this has both pros and cons)

And here are the rest, as far as I can tell:

chromium (duh. included for completeness)
dillo
edbrowse
firefox-esr (OP wants something else; included for completeness)
iceweasel (duh. included for completeness)
links
links2
luakit
midori
netsurf, netsurf-fb, netsurf-gtk
hv3 (due to a missing library in debian it lacks javascript support)
xombrero

Good luck.

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Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-07 13:30 +0100
  Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-07 17:10 +0100
    Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2017-11-07 20:00 +0100
      Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-07 20:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-11-07 21:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close cgibbs@surfnaked.ca - 2017-11-08 01:30 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close cgibbs@surfnaked.ca - 2017-11-08 01:40 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-08 13:30 +0100
            Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2017-11-08 22:10 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-11-08 20:50 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 21:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 20:50 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 21:10 +0100
            Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-11-09 08:00 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close RRRoy BBBean <rrroybbbean@gmail.com> - 2017-11-08 23:40 +0100

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