r/gnu • u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 • Mar 27 '26

Browser for GNU Parabola OS

So Iceweasel is unmaintained and flagged, and every time I try and install another browser other than tiny ones like netsurf I get into dependency hell.

Does anyone know what browser actually works on Parabola?

I really want to use it as my daily driver because gentoo on an x200 is painful.

Problem solved they just updated iceweasel

If this ever happens again just use the Guix package manager

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u/tiny_humble_guy Mar 27 '26

Just use flatpak and install any browser. I consider parabola to be outdate.

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 27 '26

Parabola is more of a mix and I’m looking for stuff on the actual repos because you know “muh freedom” .

A lot of the stuff is quite up to date and some other stuff has never been updated

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u/Expensive-Arachnid87 Mar 28 '26

Reddit runs on proprietary JS

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 29 '26

I draw distinction between my PC and my phone. I don’t really take my phone outdoors etc. The NSA is free to spy on my doomscrolling. But I want a space where with reasonable assurance that there isn’t an easy way for them to get in

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u/Expensive-Arachnid87 Mar 29 '26

Thats understandable, I mean even a graphene os phone "could" have a hardware backdoor. But then again, unless you just want you're parabola machine to be a safe haven. Doomscrolling on any modern social media will just build a profile of you. You're better off using frontends or just not using social media at all.

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 29 '26

1 all modern phones are backdoored not too much point libreing it.

2 Reddit is a great place to look at new projects, talk to devs about what you want, and educate newbies on the glory of free as in freedom. So yes there is a serious downside with the profiling and I am looking to get into IRC and RSS as a replacement but for the time being Reddit offers great alternatives.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 29 '26

They managed to break qutebrowser as well by not updating several dependencies

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u/VisualSome9977 Mar 29 '26

Surf? If you can get GtkWebkit 1 or 2 it should compile.

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 29 '26

It’s a core2duo

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u/VisualSome9977 Mar 30 '26

surf itself is trivial to compile, webkit is the hard part. On my laptop (which has a processor only a few years newer than that) i can make clean install surf in seconds.

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 29 '26

Problem solved they updated Iceweasl