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View Poll Results: Browser of the Year
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Firefox
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488 |
55.52% |
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Chrome
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184 |
20.93% |
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Konqueror
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9 |
1.02% |
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Opera
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88 |
10.01% |
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SeaMonkey
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21 |
2.39% |
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Flock
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0% |
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Midori
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11 |
1.25% |
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w3m
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5 |
0.57% |
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Chromium
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64 |
7.28% |
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Epiphany
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2 |
0.23% |
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links/elinks
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lynx
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01-17-2011, 03:12 PM
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I Say Chromium because the Syncing abilities are not in ANY other browser. I humbly admit I am using the non-opensource Chrome  but I am shallow and Like the colors of the icon better...But Chromium is open source and can be copied and changed by anyone while keeping the syncing abilities. And I can't wait till that happens!!
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01-17-2011, 03:58 PM
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#47
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04
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my chromium version is 8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10,
in windows it is version 10++,
linux version not the latest?
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01-17-2011, 04:26 PM
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#48
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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 31
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Some of us in slow net areas still need Opera
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Originally Posted by silvyus_06
i was using opera and if firefox beta 4 would have not been made yet i would vote for opera . i like opera very much , it's sync feature , turbo and stuff , but still , now with firefox beta 4 everything seems snappier with the adblock plus add on.
will vote for firefox. but just because firefox has not been making good use of the space in previous versions . now it does . i give beta 4 a ten.
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Opera is still the farmer's friend:
a) Opera's turbo function makes a sub-56K connection feasible;
2) HSPA broadband costs less.
Steve
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01-17-2011, 04:52 PM
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#49
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Registered: Oct 2010
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 , Linux Mint Debian Edition , Microsoft Windows 7
Posts: 385
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TigerLinux
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in windows , i use IE8 [...]
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are you serious?!
@goanna300 oh well i understand you man , i also use opera on slow connections  i have a copy of it everywhere i go on my friend the internet.
i have tested opera's turbo , but sometimes , even on 56K modem , it makes pages with lots of images load slower than they would do without turbo .. they have to tweak it the server side that they say so it be faster...
Last edited by silvyus_06; 01-17-2011 at 04:56 PM.
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01-17-2011, 05:12 PM
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#50
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Member
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Brazil, state of São Paulo, Jundiaí city
Distribution: Debian squeeze/wheezy; LMDE-XFCE
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Can not decide
I have been using Chrome because it is faster then Konqueror and Firefox.
Nevertheless, knowing that Epiphany is very fast, I have just installed and tested it, and I found it so quickly as Chrome. Chrome is not much stable, but I'm not sure that Epiphany is more stable then Chrome, because I have not used it from old, because of personal issues.
Firefox has the best support and plugins in Debian Lenny.
Konqueror, well, I like it for personal issues, but, as browser, it is not fast and has several problems of support and plugins.
I compared Chrome and Epiphany in Google search, Yahoo answers, and http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/taxi/. This last requires flash, which run very well in both.
Thus, I point these three, Epiphany and Chrome as the fastest and Firefox as that which has the best plugins.
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01-17-2011, 06:09 PM
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#51
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2010
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pfft. obviously firefox. thats the easiest answer ever. firefox 4 is even faster than chrome when compiled with graphite and link time optimizations.
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01-17-2011, 06:52 PM
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#52
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Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Bogotá, Colombia. South America
Distribution: ArchLinux / Source Mage GNU Linux (test branch) / openSUSE
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Quote:
Originally Posted by clem11388
I Say Chromium because the Syncing abilities are not in ANY other browser. I humbly admit I am using the non-opensource Chrome  but I am shallow and Like the colors of the icon better...But Chromium is open source and can be copied and changed by anyone while keeping the syncing abilities. And I can't wait till that happens!!
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Are you sure you have checked out Firefox 4? Sync for passwords, history, opened tabs, etc. is right there! Chromium starts faster (about 1 or 2 seconds in my rig-s) But that's before adding about 4 plugins...
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01-17-2011, 10:20 PM
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#53
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Registered: Nov 2010
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Icecat, so I voted for Firefox.
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01-18-2011, 02:33 AM
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#54
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04
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IE is not bad, but for windows only.
---------- Post added 01-18-11 at 08:33 AM ----------
Safari can be installed in Windows, but not for Linux.
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01-18-2011, 02:37 AM
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#55
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 8,464
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TigerLinux
IE is not bad, but for windows only.
---------- Post added 01-18-11 at 08:33 AM ----------
Safari can be installed in Windows, but not for Linux.
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Please stop your useless posts
Kind regards
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01-18-2011, 02:49 AM
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Location: Nagpur, India
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TigerLinux
IE is not bad, but for windows only.
---------- Post added 01-18-11 at 08:33 AM ----------
Safari can be installed in Windows, but not for Linux.
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Really???? Thanks for the information.. 
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01-18-2011, 03:17 AM
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Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04
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you can install with wine,
but i never want to use wine.
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01-18-2011, 04:37 AM
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Registered: Jun 2010
Location: Ukraine, Vinnitsa
Distribution: Slackware
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Opera without alternatives.
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01-18-2011, 06:35 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu
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Quote:
Originally Posted by papul1993
Chromium. Whats the big difference between chrome and chromium anyway?
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Shhhh! Don't mention the difference.
That would be real barbecue-stopper talk. I think the self-censorship has something to do with Google's
*above-reproach-cool* status.
[BTW I use Chromium for anything Ajax-intensive].
***Also, when you want to save a flash movie, it's sitting right there in Chromium/cache!! The simplest way yet.
Last edited by goanna300; 01-22-2011 at 04:17 AM.
Reason: More info & don't want to add another post
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01-18-2011, 01:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: London, ON, Canada
Distribution: Arch, Ubuntu, Slackware, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
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Firefox! I would go with Chrome/Chromium, but it has issues when it comes to working with ASP.NET+IIS sites (notably, Microsoft's Online Web App for Exchange - this is what we use at work, due to our requirement for Blackberries).
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