Chromium
 

I really like the speed of Chrome, but the open-source nature of chromium is going to make it better in the end.

Hey, uzbl's not on the list =(. Uzbl's my current favorite... It's still not quite ready for full production use (no SSL cert validation, and you gotta hit refresh whenever a redirect fails), but it's blazing fast, multi-process, and very lightweight. Looking forward to the new features being merged into the next release.

Firefox is my backup browser, as it works better in general, though slower run and startup times. And when I visit certain poorly-programmed blog sites, firefox slows all my tabs to a crawl. Uzbl and Chrome don't do that.

If you want to have a nice uzbl setup, get privoxy to block ads and squid or wwwoffle to cache web pages.

I'm reserving my vote for uzbl; firefox gets enough votes as it is =P

Firefox crashes most of the time on redhat based systems, opera is the best.

I use Fedora and FF has never crashed. FF all the way!

No browser trick question
 

Dear crazypenguin,

I don't quite see what you are trying to say.
You agree we all change browsers.
My original point (in case anybody missed it) is:
- Whenever I see a questionnaire which asks the question:
"What browser are you using?"
..it always occurs to me that the person creating the questionnaire has included that question in order to exclude unreliable people from their results - or liars who aren't too clever!
Well, this time, I am sure that isn't the case because most Linux users are too clever for that. However, Jeremy's wording was unfortunate - "What is your favourite browser for browsing LQ?" - in that it hinted at being the trick question I referred to. I jibed him about it and I thought everybody else understood. Sorry.
Perhaps we might a poll on how many of us stay up at night changing our browser User Agent IDs?

Steve

Chrome's User tracking and Flash
 

Kenny,
You forgot these:
Google's brand, auto-update mechanism, click-through licensing terms, usage-tracking, and bundling of Adobe Flash Player.

That's why I prefer Chromium.
FWIW
Steve

All time...........Firefox

The poll, however, poses the following query:



Which fails to make any mandates about running on Linux. Moreover, since LQ offers "Other *NIX" Forums:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nix-forums-15/

and OSX is essentially Unix, perhaps you should include it :)

Firefox

Which all adds up to a big NO for me to EVER use Chrome.

Additionally, I don't know what the folks running Google are thinking these days, but if the goog doesn't get back on the side of right real soon now, I'm going to be ditching my Android at my next upgrade.

And don't even get me started on their about face on the net neutrality issue :(

I think that Chome and Chromium should be listed as one item like 'Chrome/Chromium'.

Regardless, I voted for Firefox ;)

I had the same sentiments about Chrome and Chromium. Essentially they are the same browser.

Similar names and UI but different at heart.!!
 

No because Chrome is basically the closed source version of Chromium. Chromium would technically tend to be more unstable because it is what they called bleeding edge of the development and is usually the most up to date version to the point of not being tested to much before being released. but I have not noticed any hiccups. I am not sure if Chromium is dropping support for viewing H.264 video through HTML5 or not, but I know Chrome is dropping it with out a doubt. But Chromium is a different team and is focused on being very open source so I would think that it would want to support open source HTML5 as much as possible. But I don't know.

I'm so glad that this debate is finally happening!
Steve

@ Clem11388,

Using your logic, the following developmental versions should be labeled: Firefox should be called Firefoxium, Seamonkey should be called Seamonkeyium, Opera should be called Operaium. Just because one is a developmental version of a final product does not make it a separate and unique browser. The underlying code of both Chrome and Chromium is for all practical purposes the same browser.