Favorite Web Browser

Professor Frink · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: Favorite Web Browser

With the introduction of Firebird .7 I was wondering what people's favorite webbrowser is. I used to use epiphany since I switched over to gnome but for some reason i like firebird .7 even though it's not as pretty. Is anyone using something else I should be looking into?
Thanks!
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wim · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject:

try the firebird themes if you don't like its look...

0.7 rox imho
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shm · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

I used to use firebird until a month ago when I switched from kde 3.1 to kde-cvs. I've been using Konqueror ever since.

The changes between 0.6 and 0.7 aren't big enough for me to switch back to firebird, but it is a damn fine browser none-the-less. I just want something that integrates with KDE better.
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Lovechild · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

Epiphany here

syscrash · Guru Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 541

I use firebird. Its great and I love the popup blocking. I also like the fact that its cross platform so I can install it in school :twisted:

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

I like Mozilla :)

I've been using it since the Milestone days. I have been using 1.2 until recently. I tried firebird 0.7rc for about a week, but now with Mozilla 1.5 out I'm back to that.

I built it with

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

epiphany here as well.

Astaroth33 · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 36

I'm quite comfortable with Mozilla myself, and have used it for the past year and a half or so since the .9 (or so) release.

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

i switched from Konqueror to Epiphany. It's very good.

idl · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject:

Mozilla Firebird here. I love it more every time I use it. I find it renders pages twice as fast as Konqueror aswell

Its damn sexy aswell.

zenlunatic · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 312

One thing that I like about konq is that you can split the view and have two pages open next to eachother. I guess this nothing compared to tabs. I do like galeon/epiphany moreso than firebird. They handle tabs better IMO because they have the X on the tab plus they can have more tabs open than space allows with arrows. Firebird is nice but still needs lots of work IMO. Lately I find myself aligned more with the gnome camp. Konq is a nice app, but it just seems to much like a explorer wannabe. I like how a lot of discussion is going on about the future of nautilus (think spatial) and how we really have two browsers to choose for on Gnome. If I were you I would stick with ephipany or galeon.

adammc · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 230 Location: Europe

yet another vote for epiphany here...though before I installed gnome last week I was using firebird. I'm not sure why, but after installing Gnome I just switched

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Inside

Mozilla with the Multizilla plugin. Full control of the tabs, move to different window or different place on this window, open previously closed tabs, close all to the right or left, close button on the tabs. And it has a google toolbar.

I can't stand Konqueror as a browser. It's slow and it has crashed innumerable times on me. Twice so bad I had to reinstall it which requires reemerging kde-base. Pain in the ass.

http://multizilla.mozdev.org/installation.html#

adammc · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 230 Location: Europe

why'd you have to reinstall it? surely you can't have been running it as root, so no damage could've been done...
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Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

It seems I'm in the minority here...but...I actually use Galeon, and prefer it over Epiphany...Epiphany is a little too slimmed-down for my tastes, and I'm sad that it won't be considered part of the 'official' Gnome desktop anymore =(

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

I like Epiphany, I started out using Firebird though, coming from Galeon

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j-kidd · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 213

Though there are many good open source browser, I still prefer opera. First, the page drawing and the ui are fast. Second, it can be customized to fit my style just right.

The tab browsing in opera is the best IMO. I can just middle click to close a tab, which is much faster than to click an "X" or right click then select close. Plus, I can have the new tab opened beside the current tab I am browsing, and when I close a tab I can be back to the previously browsed tab. The best part is that the tab browsing behaviour is part of the browser, so I don't need to rely on some other usually buggy extensions. Opera, unlike most other browsers, was designed to use tab browsing from the beginning.

I would like to use konqueror, it is fast enough but the ui is less than desirable. For instance, it lacks a google search box and the address bar can only store about 20 urls -- I am just too lazy to type most of the time

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