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View Poll Results: Which is the fastest and most user friendly browser?
Netscape 7 7 3.68%
Netscape 6 2 1.05%
Netscape 4.x 0 0%
Opera 37 19.47%
Konqueror 11 5.79%
Mozilla 47 24.74%
Internet Explorer 14 7.37%
Galeon 31 16.32%
w3m 3 1.58%
Zen 1 0.53%
Links 10 5.26%
Lynx 19 10.00%
dillo 7 3.68%
amaya 1 0.53%
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Old 09-06-2002, 11:16 PM   #1
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fastest browser


According to you which is the fastest and most friendly browser ?


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Old 09-06-2002, 11:22 PM   #2
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I don't see Galeon on there ??
 
Old 09-06-2002, 11:32 PM   #3
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Oh Sorry I forgot it .... Will you please add it for me. I think i dont have perms to add it myself..
 
Old 09-06-2002, 11:36 PM   #4
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Oh Sorry I forgot it .... Will you please add it for me. I think i dont have perms to add it myself..
I don't either but when Acid see's it, he'll add it cause that is the browser he prefers as well.
 
Old 09-06-2002, 11:47 PM   #5
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Lynx! We are talking about straight speed, so I would say Lynx. Out of the choices provided, I go with Opera since it most resembles Galeon

COol
 
Old 09-07-2002, 02:37 AM   #6
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My opinion:

Fastest - Lynx
User Friendly - Opera

I use Opera most of the time, but if I want to see a site quick without the fancy smancy graphics, I use Lynx.
 
Old 09-07-2002, 04:49 AM   #7
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Re: fastest browser

Quote:
Originally posted by sandy
According to you which is the fastest and most friendly browser ?
Thats a tricky question. How do you weigh both "fast" and "freindly" against each other.... Konq feels fast, althought mostly an illusion. Konq starts rendering with less of the page loaded when compared with Mozilla/Opera/Galeon. Mozilla/Galeon are spot on speed wise, Opera is also fast so long as the network is up to it (Opera does suffer page loading problems on some sites).

For my money Galeon is the clear winner, but then again I am biased. I have Galeon, Mozilla, Opera, Konq and Lynx all at my beck and call, but Galeon is my daily browser of choice. How can you live without tabs? I use IE in the office occasionaly, what a pile of carp!!!
 
Old 09-07-2002, 04:57 AM   #8
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Who voted IE Man...

Yeah, for both speed, and user friendliness, Galeon. Other's have tabs now, and opera had them for a while, but Galeon came boxed with most of the distros I tried, so out of pure laziness, I would use Galeon instead of installing Opera. Now that I am not lazy, I still use Galeon because I have grown used to it's short keys, and like it's speed. My vote went to Galeon

Cool
 
Old 09-07-2002, 05:15 AM   #9
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Who voted IE Man...

Yeah, for both speed, and user friendliness, Galeon. Other's have tabs now, and opera had them for a while, but Galeon came boxed with most of the distros I tried, so out of pure laziness, I would use Galeon instead of installing Opera. Now that I am not lazy, I still use Galeon because I have grown used to it's short keys, and like it's speed. My vote went to Galeon

Cool
Add to that Galeon renders nicer than Mozilla (well font sizes anyway, Galeon uses the Mozilla render engine Gueko). I juts love the Galeon "Portal". I save this often then push it to my host, gives me my bookmarks wherever I am....

http://dnaresearch.com.au/portal.html
 
Old 09-07-2002, 05:22 AM   #10
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Damn that's a lot of bookmarks! I see you have all the right ones though
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Google
 
Old 09-07-2002, 05:31 AM   #11
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This is prolly the best Linux bookmark you could have (ok, 2):

http://www.distrowatch.com/
http://www.yolinux.com/
 
Old 09-07-2002, 08:43 AM   #12
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Although still in it's infancy, Dillo is very small and fast. On my AMD 1.45Ghz w/station it loads in sub-second time frame.

http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...hp?query=dillo

Note: I used the PLD RPM package for Dillo 0.6.6 and it is missing the ~/.dillo/dillorc config file. I extracted dillorc from the tarball package available on the main site... dilllorc is the only way to configure Dillo, lots to tweat...

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Old 09-07-2002, 02:39 PM   #13
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Microsoft IE all the way!
Go ms go!!!
 
Old 09-07-2002, 03:46 PM   #14
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My vote goes to Lynx. But when I'm going to view pictures - Mozilla.
 
Old 09-07-2002, 04:05 PM   #15
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Microsoft IE all the way!
Go ms go!!!
And you are gone along with it. Oh well, everybody finds his/her paradise after going through hell. Bye-bye. Just FYI there is no http://windowsquestions.org that dedicated to windows - it still points here
 
  


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