[CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

Wed Jun 26 23:14:42 UTC 2019
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:15:12 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:39:12 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> > <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Robert Heller wrote:
> >>
> >>> OK, I recently ugraded to the current ESR release of Firefox for
> >>> CentOS
> >>> 6.
> >>> And I am having problems with the user interface (basically it has
> >>> become hard [for me] to use).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What alternitives are there?  (Chrome and Chromium are not possible
> >>> with CentOS, and Chrome and Chromium are actually worse).
> >>>
> >>>
> >> What's the problems? I just upgraded last week, and the STUPID MORONS
> >> made the arrows in the scrollbars go away, had to search and find a gtk
> >> config file I needed to create.
> >
> > That is one problem -- I want those arrows back. AND wider scrollbars (if
> > that is possible -- skinny scrollbars might be fashonable, but are really
> > hard to use).
> >
> This is what I used.
> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1229675>


Does not work on my *CentOS 6* system (probably because I don't have gtk 3?).

> 
> > Another is the *lack* of a place to *type* a file name when you click a
> > file upload button. The file upload browser both comes up too tall (taller
> > than my screen [why?]) and lacks a place to start typing a file name, one
> > *must*
> > scroll down though (in my case) a long list of files and directories. It
> > seems that the use of a keyboard is no longer supported. *Some* of us
> > actually use our keyboards and don't like to point and click *all of the
> > time* (or really much of the time or really at all). I know, the keyboard
> > is a piece of depreciated hardware -- we are all supposed to be using
> > touch screens with only colorful icons -- actually typing file names is so
> > 20th century... :-)
> >
> They all think they're Managers, who don't type, only wave their hands and
> point. Or, as a friend put it, their "mama dresses them funny, and [they]
> need a mouse to delete files".

Ha!

> 
>        mark
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