Quest for Ultimate Browser

Web browsing in one or another form is probably the largest share of activity performed on computers today. And yet it's far from being perfect or even largely comfortable. Actually, it wasn't like that all the time. Back in old good days, you can browse web equally comfortable with both Netscape Navigator 2 and Lynx. But the more advanced web standards become, the more dynamic and media-rich web sites become, the more overall browsing performance and comfort deteriorate. Note that I don't talk here about how sites look or how well they represent information - there's big progress in that no doubt. The talk is about how well browsing of hundreds and thousands of such cool sites is managed. There're two biggest problems with modern browsing: performance and stability.
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Midori (0.2.9):

• All windows block if there's a JS modal dialog
• Has a setting to not load/render pages from restored session on restart, just show placeholders. - I miss this much in Arora.
• Session recorded just for one (main) window. Tabs opened in other windows are lost over restart/crash. This is show-stopper bug, made me use Arora as a promary browser instead. 

Arora (0.11):

• Always puts a new tab as the last, no setting for that.
• Show KBs downloaded for the page.
• After some usage it turned out that session management is not robust: after the crash, I regularly get situation that windows and tabs are "restored" in the same numbers they were before, but each tab opens file://$HOME (yes, the local home dir). Or, Arora just forgets that it should restore session and shows its home page.

VI-like galore: dwb, jumanji, surf, uzbl (still review more), luakit

Floating Posts

I'm going to maintain some "research" topics (posts) which are updated over time. Date of such topics may be reset to the current from time to time. Such topics are tagged as "floating".

Blog reloaded

It seems that I need a blog, after all. There're so many interesting things around... And some of them I even do/tackle myself, so I don't want to forget what/how I did that while moving to other interesting things. I could write private notes, but I learn lot of interesting things by just reading the Internet and blogs in particular. But not all - again, some stuff I need to research in-depth or make myself. Then, I'd like to share it back.

I was thinking for some time if I should make a new blog or continue this one. But after re-reading old posts, now I'm sure I don't want to leave this little blog orphaned ;-).

The only issue, is that this blog was started as dedicated to Embedded Linux, and may be included in some thematic feed aggregators/blog planets. I still hope to write about Embedded Linux, but going to extend scope to other topics. It's still going to be IT- and technology-centered. So, if you're a planet admin and think that new format doesn't fit your resource, feel free to remove it. If you're a reader which started to get posts on unexpected topics, feel free to report to you aggregation service. (Either way, feel free to drop me a line too.)