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View Poll Results: Browser of the Year
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Firefox
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999 |
75.91% |
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Konqueror
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50 |
3.80% |
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Opera
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135 |
10.26% |
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lynx
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3 |
0.23% |
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links/elinks
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8 |
0.61% |
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Epiphany
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17 |
1.29% |
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Dillo
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8 |
0.61% |
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Galeon
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2 |
0.15% |
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SeaMonkey
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32 |
2.43% |
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Flock
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2 |
0.15% |
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IceCat
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6 |
0.46% |
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Chrome
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38 |
2.89% |
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Midori
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12 |
0.91% |
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w3m
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4 |
0.30% |
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01-07-2009, 12:34 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,618
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Browser of the Year
What browser do you prefer when browsing LQ?
--jeremy
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01-07-2009, 11:29 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Gurgaon, India
Distribution: Cent OS 6/7
Posts: 4,638
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Chrome's available on Linux?????
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01-08-2009, 02:33 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: pl_PL.lodz
Distribution: FreeBSD
Posts: 406
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I would also add Midori (webkit/gtk2 based) and Arora (qt4/webkit based).
About text based browsers w3m is a must here.
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01-08-2009, 03:29 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: xUbuntu 20.04 currently
Posts: 311
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Kasehakaze?
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01-09-2009, 12:51 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: $RANDOM
Distribution: slackware64
Posts: 12,928
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Quote:
Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya
Chrome's available on Linux?????
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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. |
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01-09-2009, 01:43 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
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.
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agreed |
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01-09-2009, 02:57 PM
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,562
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Firefox.
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01-09-2009, 11:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Gurgaon, India
Distribution: Cent OS 6/7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
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.
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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. |
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01-10-2009, 01:50 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.1
Posts: 879
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Firefox, but looking very much at the Midori development. Interesting.
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01-10-2009, 10:06 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,618
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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
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01-10-2009, 11:22 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: London
Distribution: PCLinuxOS, Salix
Posts: 6,228
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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.
Last edited by DavidMcCann; 01-10-2009 at 11:23 AM.
Reason: Typo corrected
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01-11-2009, 01:44 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 6,042
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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.
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01-11-2009, 02:17 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
Posts: 2,247
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People should try Opera 10 alpha. Way faster and better than 9.
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01-11-2009, 04:21 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, Debian testing
Posts: 5,019
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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.
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01-11-2009, 07:27 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
Posts: 6,553
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Firefox 3 and NoScript addin does all I want in a no nonsense fashion.
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