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View Poll Results: Browser of the Year
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Firefox
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611 |
65.21% |
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Konqueror
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22 |
2.35% |
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Opera
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86 |
9.18% |
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Chrome
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129 |
13.77% |
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lynx
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7 |
0.75% |
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links/elinks
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5 |
0.53% |
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Epiphany
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9 |
0.96% |
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Dillo
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3 |
0.32% |
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Galeon
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0% |
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SeaMonkey
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20 |
2.13% |
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Flock
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2 |
0.21% |
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IceCat
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2 |
0.21% |
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Midori
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14 |
1.49% |
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w3m
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4 |
0.43% |
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Chromium
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23 |
2.45% |
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01-22-2010, 02:59 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2009
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Originally Posted by smeezekitty
WTF? firefox has gotten faster and never freezes! maybe you should upgrade/check for bad ram.
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Yes it freezes!!
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01-22-2010, 10:15 AM
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#77
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Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE
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Firefox
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01-23-2010, 12:57 AM
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#78
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Registered: May 2008
Location: Glendale, CA
Distribution: ubuntu 12.04
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of course... Firefox.
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01-27-2010, 11:18 AM
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#79
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: France
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
Posts: 135
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smeezekitty
WTF? firefox has gotten faster and never freezes! maybe you should upgrade/check for bad ram.
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(Not wanting to start a war.) In my experience, on my system, Firefox is slower than Opera. I have good RAM and good processor.
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01-27-2010, 11:59 AM
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Distribution: Debian wheezy
Posts: 130
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I went with Opera (even though I'm writing this from Iceweasel...). Been looking at it a lot lately and I'm slowly inching my way over to it.
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01-27-2010, 02:42 PM
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: British Columbia
Distribution: Linux Mint 14, Debian 6
Posts: 121
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Opera
I have to say Opera, without a question.
I use Opera as my main browser. But I also have Firefox & Google Chrome installed. I use Chrome if I just want to check something quickly, and Firefox occasionally for a few of it's addons or something.
I only switched to Opera 4 months ago, before that I had used Firefox since 2005. Opera had so many features I liked, including:
- Bookmark syncronization
- Download tabs
- and so many others.
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01-27-2010, 03:08 PM
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#82
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: France
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
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Originally Posted by Cityscape
I use Opera as my main browser. But I also have Firefox & Google Chrome installed. I use Chrome if I just want to check something quickly, and Firefox occasionally for a few of it's addons or something.
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Personally I use Midori for one-shot browsing sessions. It matures fast and takes good design features from both Opera and Firefox. I also voted Midori, although Opera is my main browser.
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01-27-2010, 04:50 PM
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Registered: Dec 2008
Distribution: slackware openbsd
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Originally Posted by MoonMind
I'd like to see SRWare Iron in the list - Chrome without the nosiness... But maybe that's too early - it's still a beta.
For the time being, Firefox is still the browser I use most. But even the newest builds have issues (at least in Ubuntu and Debian); the part that works the worst is the download manager - it can really stall the whole browser. It's worth calling up a terminal and using wget instead...
M.
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Agree with you about SRWare Iron. It's very promising and deserving of it's own slot.
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01-27-2010, 11:37 PM
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#84
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Registered: May 2009
Posts: 9
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Firefox downloads?? Most downloads I save to be able to open it. If I can't I send the document to a google e-mail account and then download from there. Then Firefox / Open systems have no problem.
Have other Browsers have fewer problems (other than ie7)?
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01-28-2010, 07:11 AM
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Registered: Jun 2009
Location: Uluru
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04
Posts: 167
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Opera. I uninstalled it in the noble cause of open-source purism, but after 2 weeks, I'm going back. Ffox is ok, well more than ok, I used it all the time before Opera. Someone mentioned ffox not working so well with Ubuntu, I second that - speed dial unstable - flawless in Op, which I also find faster.
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01-28-2010, 07:39 AM
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#86
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 12
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Firefox, baby! 
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01-28-2010, 10:32 PM
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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Utah
Distribution: Debian Testing (Wheezy atm.)
Posts: 109
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Firefox, and Seamonkey as a second, as it is good for lightweight stuff and works with many firefox addons.
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01-29-2010, 07:56 PM
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#88
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2006
Distribution: Blade64/Slackware
Posts: 27
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Firefox Konqueror SeaMonkey all 3
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01-30-2010, 02:38 AM
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Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 207
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl
Opinions are good  -- you're entitled. But can you provide some evidence to this effect? Note that I'm not debating the issue with you as to whether it's true or not; I just would like to read what you've read.
Sasha
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Missed this. Sorry.
It's probably not too productive to get into a blow by blow rehash of the last ten years but one example would be the "MS-ificiation" of the keyboard shortcuts. Hmmm... I can't remember what they were on mid 90's versions of Netscape, so maybe it was return to old MS shortcuts of yore, but after MS ate Netscape and *nix dev heads took up the torch to continue gecko development, they were more consistent with *nix. Another would be that FF is no longer 100% on css acid test - still beats IE, but sad that whereas standards conformance was a something to brag about it's now been pushed to the back burner.
But hey, for those coming from IE who've never used anything else, more power to you.
P.S.; Speaking of days of yore, one browser that is no more that was pretty sweet was Galeon. Devhead wars led to fork to Epiphany, then resolution pulled Galeon back under auspices of Epiphany but apparently the "epiphany" was lost on me....
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01-31-2010, 08:58 AM
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#90
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2009
Location: MN
Distribution: Archlinux eeepc , Debian, Slackware
Posts: 15
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Firefox and Arora , yes I know two different rendering engines , but Arora is really fast just wish it would work better with extreme .js sites like google wave.
Thanks for two great products.
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