Web Browser Discussion, Browser Talk - Slimjet Web Browser Online Forum

I'm brand new here (which should be obvious by the amount of posts on my forum record), and I'm curious as to the outlook of the future development of Slim Browser. The reason I prefer Slim Browser to the other Flash Peak browser Slim Jet is the advanced user interface. Yes, I know I'm in the minority here; but the "minimalist" interface of Chrome is absolutely horrible. In fact, that's precisely why I'm here. Since 2010, I've been using Firefox. With Firefox, I got the advanced interface of Internet Explorer, with the web page stability of Chrome. However, that is all in the past. In recent years, Firefox has been going the way of Chrome. And if that isn't bad enough, the actual browser is become more and more unstable. Hardware acceleration issues, crashes, bugs, slow load times, and features being stripped are just the tip of the ice burg as to what the incompetents at Mozilla are doing. As many here may have heard, the "New 57" is going to all but put Firefox in the ground! As it is, Mozilla is already sending their user's browsing statistics to Google. And their usage statistics are dropping like flies! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_sha ... b_browsers) 5.5 percent! They're literally the new IE!

But I digress. After finally getting fed up with Firefox for the last time, I decided now was the time to switch browsers. So I started my search engine journey. A long and tedious voyage that finally landed me at Slim Browser. And for a moment, I was in browser bliss. "Finally!", I had thought, "This is the browser I had been dreaming of!" But alas, it seems like development of the browser is dying. Whenever you visit the home page, it tries to re-direct you to Slim Jet. So I'm guessing I made it to the beginning of the end of Slim Browser?

I do believe they have switched their focus to Slimjet. You can still use Slimbrowser, but it will not have anymore updates.

I used Slimbrowser for many years. It is an excellent user interface for IE. For me, transitioning to Slimjet only required that I accept the use of Bookmarks for my Groups links as I made extensive use of Groups in Slimbrowser. I don't remember the exact process now, but I imported all of my Groups and put them into a Bookmark folder I called Groups in the Bookmarks bar. That helped, seeing a folder at the top called Groups. And the Quickfill autologin and formfill is still available, from a Quickfill icon in the Slimjet toolbar.

oftentired wrote:I do believe they have switched their focus to Slimjet. You can still use Slimbrowser, but it will not have anymore updates.

I used Slimbrowser for many years. It is an excellent user interface for IE. For me, transitioning to Slimjet only required that I accept the use of Bookmarks for my Groups links as I made extensive use of Groups in Slimbrowser. I don't remember the exact process now, but I imported all of my Groups and put them into a Bookmark folder I called Groups in the Bookmarks bar. That helped, seeing a folder at the top called Groups. And the Quickfill autologin and formfill is still available, from a Quickfill icon in the Slimjet toolbar.

Thank you for your reply. It's a bit disappointing to hear the Slim Browser is no longer in development, but I suppose it's for the best. Research shows that the last time Microsoft updated Trident version 7 (for Windows 7 and Windows 8) was as late as 2014. The last time Microsoft updated Trident version 8 was in 2015 (in fact, the only reason Trident 8 was even created in the first place was simply for IE 11 for Windows 10; other than that, Trident 8 isn't in active development). Since Trident is being phased out, I suppose it's time to move on.

Anyways, one more question before I download and install the browser. The home page of Slim Jet boasts "security" and "privacy", but I have to ask, is RTC Peer protection built into the browser? And if not, how do I close the RTC Peer vulnerability in Slim Jet? In Firefox, you just had to set "media.peerconnection.enabled" to "FALSE" in the "about:config" screen. Internet Explorer natively does not allow RTC Peer connections, so there was no worry there. Once I find out how to get rid of RTC Peer, I'll be all set to download and install Slim Jet.

Again, thank you for your support.

To disable WebRTC, select "Settings" from the gear icon menu, scroll to the "Security" section and turn off the option "Enable WebRTC".

The really fast way to find things in the settings is to use the search feature at the top of the settings page. I typed in RTC and hit enter.

oftentired wrote:To disable WebRTC, select "Settings" from the gear icon menu, scroll to the "Security" section and turn off the option "Enable WebRTC".

The really fast way to find things in the settings is to use the search feature at the top of the settings page. I typed in RTC and hit enter.

Yeah, I saw the "settings search" function featured in the YouTube video. But knowing how much I love complexity, I'll probably go through each individual setting.

Anyways, thank you for your support. I'll probably download and install the browser tomorrow evening. Looking forward to this.