In trying to see what is going on when Microsoft Edge and Chrome fail to load images, I’ve been experimenting with two more browsers I run on Linux. First off, even with the (mostly) slight differences in rendering, both of the mentioned browsers in this post never had the first bit of trouble loading pictures. There were a couple of differences I attribute to how they handle CSS, but the differences were minor and consistent. None of the differences were as dramatic as the one I posted about SeaMonkey.
I’ve used Konqueror and Epiphany for a very long time, measured in decades. Since I’ve talked about unspecified “other” browsers, here they are. One more, Dillo, was not tested since it isn’t geared to graphics.
Here is the browser showing the greatest difference, Konqueror. Notice the category links in each post window. The color buttons are not rendered. It took me a few minutes to even see this! Page rendering is very fast in Konqueror. Even the galleries render correctly. The only difference here is that they don’t show the thumbnail strip at the bottom when the gallery is selected.
Again, pictures loaded 100% of the time!!!! Well, so far, and I expect things to continue behaving.
Konqueror is multi-talented, here’s what you see by default when you open it. It really does the same thing as Microsoft Explorer, but works much better. There are some broken graphics in this version as you can see. This does not affect how it works.
It is amazing that it is a capable browser from this opening screen, but it is! It looks closer to the main familiar browsers. It is definitely handy being able to shift gears on the fly in the same program.
While Open Source software can look decidedly different than proprietary software, the same ends are met, whether graphics, office related programs, and browsing.
Here is Epiphany, it renders so close to Firefox, I’m not discussing the differences as they are really that minor. Large gallery pictures load incredibly fast.
It also has never even hiccuped loading pictures, so far. CSS has been 100%, too.
Even though it looks “more different” than the other browsers, one feels totally at home surfing. The user interface can be customized.
Does this simply serve to add to the confusion of what’s going on with Edge and Chrome? It both clears and muddies the water. I’ve tried to break things for Firefox, SeaMonkey, Epiphany and Konqueror, and the only times things went south were when I really broke things….knowingly. Loading a page on Edge the same instant (as close as possible) with another browser (besides Chrome) would show Edge and Chrome having issues while Firefox, SeaMonkey, Epiphany, and Konqueror never missed a beat. I have two Windows machines and one Linux machine at the moment and Edge and Chrome acted up on both Windows machines. While Edge and/or Chrome acted up, Firefox and SeaMonkey on that same machine worked perfectly.
Currently I’m only running the default cache settings on the host and the provided CDN with no plugins. We’ll see, I guess, after a few days if there are any changes. The WordPress dashboard health widget complains about settings related to speeding things up, but all testing I can do shows the site runs fast, plus Google gives it a 99% grade.
I guess there will be a mix of actual posts along with posts like this for now.
