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Privacy ∞

• Tor takes some version of Firefox, builds a more secure version of it, and plugs it into an anonymizing onion router network.

• Though I've tried Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper, I haven't tried chaining Polipo (+adzapper) + Privoxy + Tor

Browsers without their own page ∞

• https://surf.suckless.org/

• https://luakit.github.io/

Dead projects ∞

Old notes noted from 2006-04-04 or earlier, just dumped here out of interest.

• cheetah.sourceforge.net

  • "a project that has been started to create a fully functional, light-weight, bloat-free web browser for Linux (and other free unix clones) that is not dependent on KDE, GNOME or Mozilla."
  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - last update 2001-12-27

• https://web.archive.org/web/20190108083527/http://www.beonex.com:80/communicator/

  • Forked from Netscape Navigator, with the standard set of known flaws. It's stale too. Why bother with this when I could go get something that's trying to get better?
  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.8.2-stable was released 2003-03-21 and the project has been officially abandoned.
  • (on Wikipedia)

• http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/express/

  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.0.7 was released 1999-05-08.

• grail.sourceforge.net

  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.6 was released 1999-04-01.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090905122939/http://pauillac.inria.fr:80/~rouaix/mmm/

  • MMM is a WWW browser implemented in Objective Caml using its CamlTk41 interface to Tcl/Tk.
  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.41 was released 1997-12, and the URL is dead.

• mnemonic.org

  • Abandoned - Website dead. I can't find a proper archive.

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/pad++/

  • Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.9 was released 2001-11-08
  • Dead here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070804150554/http://hci.ucsd.edu/pad++/

• multicast Mosaic

  • Abandoned - 3.8.22 was released 2004-02-24, and the website is dead.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185951/http://www.uni-mainz.de:80/~szukw000/index.html
  • No configure script for 3.7.2.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080704053051/http://www.pick.ucam.org/peru/index.html

  • A free web browser, written in C using the GTK libraries, and the gtk port of the xmhtml widget.
  • Aborted - The project did not launch and the website died.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20041128080645/http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de:8080/wafe/Cineast/

  • Looks neat, but quiet.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120915154245/http://seanm.ca:80/mosaic/

  • 1997-01-07 NCSA mosaic modified to compile on today's systems. Good for gophering!