what is the best web browser for Linux? why? and how can I get it... ? thanks

On a question like this, your going to get opinions or personal favorites. You might want to search the boards here as this is asked all the time, we have polls on this too. But the best thing for you to do is just try a few yourself and see which one suits you best. Here are some of the major one's:

Mozilla
Netscape
Galeon
Konqueror
Opera
Lynx

And of course, to obtain it, just download it.

My personal favourites are: Mozilla and Galeon.

ok, thanks, i'll try out mozilla

I like Netscape 6.1+, since Mozilla is based on netscape 4.7 I just don't use it, since everything that mozilla has Netscape also has.
however, don't forget that it doesn't matter which browser you use, there will be pages you just cannot view thanks to the Microsoft proprietary code!,

What utter rubbish!

Mozilla has nothing to do with NS 4.7 !!!!

In fact, NetScape 6.x and 7.x are based on Mozilla!

I find Mozilla to be incredible slow compared to Galeon, so if you were going to either one of the two then choose Galeon. Mind you, you need Mozilla to use Galeon, so why not install both!

Buddy, dunno where you got your info but you are not correct. Mozilla is based off Netscape, hence why Mozilla when it first came out looked just like Netscape...and if you haven't also noticed Mozilla is way newer than Netscape, so you need to recheck your sources, have a nice day,

I don't know where *you* got you infos but here is where i found mine:

The official Mozilla FAQ.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/mozilla-faq.html

Here is a quote:
Maybe you are mistaken because Mozilla ships with the old Netscape 4.x skin, it's the first thing i change when i install Mozilla. Appart from that, it doesn't have anything in common with Netscape 4.x. First there was Netscape 4.x, than Netscape decided to release the source code for it. The Mozilla project was created and they began working on a new browser. Netscape decided at a certain point that the Mozilla source code was good enough and release it under the name of Netscape 6.

To resume,

- Netscape 4.x: old, let's forget about this piece of ...
- Mozilla: multi-platform browser, pretty much plain
- Netscape 6 (or 7.x): basically Mozilla + load of questionable programs (AOL icons, etc...).
- Galeon: a gtk-based browser which use the gecko engine (from Mozilla). Faster than Mozilla. For Linux only.
- K-Meleon: a windows-based browser which use the gecko engine. Windows only.

mozilla started work on the original 4.7x code, then chucked the whole thing in the dust bin, and started over from scratch.
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-26-Oct-1998.html