Browser of the Year
 

What browser do you prefer when browsing LQ?

--jeremy

Chrome's available on Linux?????

I would also add Midori (webkit/gtk2 based) and Arora (qt4/webkit based).

About text based browsers w3m is a must here.

Kasehakaze?

nope, but I wouldn't vote for it even if it were.

I vote FF, not because it's good, but because of the extensions.

agreed

Firefox.

If Chrome's not still there for linux then why is it there on this list? Just because its open source? Not fair till its ported to linux.
I already voted FF. Thats the only one that I use. Its good its safe and has got a lot of extensions.

Firefox, but looking very much at the Midori development. Interesting.

The builds are currently available for Linux and have been for a while (although they are not fully functional). The pending 2.x release should being a functional version and will be available soon.

--jeremy

I keep Opera for those websites that are such a mess that Firefox won't display them; I used to use Konqueror for that, but I really find all the KDE stuff too cluttered and clunky. For normal use, it still has to be Firefox.

This one is hard for me to vote because only mplayerplug-in works in Firefox. On the other hand, Opera handles Flash a lot better or does not crash. Even though I use Firefox for almost every site, Opera has made a lot of changes in 2008. Opera has provided some resilience to a Flash crash and no more ads, so I give my vote to Opera.

People should try Opera 10 alpha. Way faster and better than 9.

Firefox. Let's hope for Mozilla that Chome does not take off; it is hard to imagine that google will continue as major sponsor if their browser becomes a hit.

Firefox 3 and NoScript addin does all I want in a no nonsense fashion.

I voted firefox ... it's what I use on all platforms. Anyway, I've used the mozilla stuff since the early netscape, back when it competed with mosaic, and it's always done the job pretty well.

when chrome for linux will come ???

Opera is the only browser.

FF and Iceweasel were crashmeisters last year, and Chrome?! on a Linux forum?! or is that just wishfiul thinking.

I tried it on both Vista and Xp............ then I installed Opera ;)

Maybe I can be a counterpoint :)

FF3/Iceweasel have worked for me all through the year.
If they didn't behave, I'd just twist their arms till they worked.
Have not had any problems since ;)

I use 3 browsers:
iceweasel (firefox)
Dillo2
links2

FireFox all the way. robust, and enhanced with awesome extensions...

Firefox is good.

chrome
 

chrome just added thier own http stack and you can now compile from source there will be packages soon

Regards
JKZfixme

i voted midori but i use 80% of my time arora

http://code.google.com/p/arora/

I'll be very happy when Dillo gets javascript and secure support fully working. But, links does everything I need (even the limited javascript I need). And it does render some pages better than lynx (which is my second favorite).

The addons/customization make Firefox the only one I use on a regular everyday basis. That said, I'm not happy with FF 3 and the "awful bar", places.sqlite etc. though I'll soon have to learn to live with it (still using FF2x). :(

I use 3 browsers in the following sequence:
1) firefox
2) Web Browser, File Manager, ...
Konqueror 3.1.3-52 Red Hat
From Authors:
David Faure
Simon Hausmann
Michael Reiher
Matthias Welk
Alexander Nuendorf
Michael Brade
Lars Knoll
Antii Koivisto
Dirk Mueller
Peter Kelly
Waldo Bastian
Matt Koss
Alex Zepeda
Stephen Kulow
Richard Moore
Dima Rogozin
Wynn Wilkes
Harri Porten
George Staikos
Dawit Alamayehu
Carsten Pfeiffer
Torsten Rahn
Torben Weis
Joseph Weninger
3) Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla/5.0

Opera
 

I think Opera is best - you have web, mail, rss, irc in one application. But I wish it were GPL licensed...

i use firefox on all platforms

Opera rules! you should give it a try

Vimperator
 

Long life to vimperator !! Dead to the mice !! :cool:

Firefox & Epiphany...

I installed vimperator and now I do not know how to disable it. All the options are gone....

I'm using firefox on all machines (and all OS) and like synchronizing my bookmarks with the foxmarks-plugin.

I do not know how but I somehow managed to disable vimperator and uninstall it as well. Thank god!

Just another case of you didn't RTFM ;)
Parhaps it wasn't for you anyway.

Yeah I did not like it. Just saw something here and wanted to give it a try. But wasnt very happy the way it works. The simple yet powerful and secure FF is good for me.

Chrome for Windows, Firefox for Linux. I'm not sure which I should vote for.

I love Firefox

I voted IceCat because its Firefox but instead of only being 75%75%-85% free its 100% free. After all whats the point of the Free Software Movement if we do not support 100% free software. Thats like buying somthing that is only 75%-85% Organic its all lies and deciet!

neither, all suckz, safari is #1 (sorry, but is the true)

What??

No Iceweasel???

Yes it is. I am a big of Opera. It got my vote.

IceWeasel was renamed IceCat and is in the poll.

--jeremy

The browser I prefer to use when browsing these forums may or may not be what I would call the "browser of the year", whatever that means.

Firefox 3.0.x for all the OSes including Windows!

First there was the Navigator.
Then there was the Explorer.

I use Konqueror. :P

Firefox 3 on my desktop but Firefox 2 with my older laptops. So I voted for Firefox

Opera is always first choice, and lately, test driving Epiphany

Firefox!

http://www.firefox10.com/images/firefox-crop-circle.jpg