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Distribution: Slackware & Slamd64. What else is there?
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Originally Posted by 311Sam
i have always liked firefox in the windows world and was happy when i found out that it came standard with slack. however it is the older 1.0 version and it seems pretty slow. scrolling on websites with lots of pictures seems to chug along and plus the browser itself has a slow load time. i might update it to another version to see if it helps, right now i am using version 3alpha on my windows box and it is very nice and almost bug free.
what all is everyone else using?
I used mozilla pretty much since the beginning and I stayed on 1.7 from when it came out until 1.7.11 which started behaving badly for me on a couple of machines. I hated firebox from the beginning and don't use it. Also hate opera. A lot of good ideas implemented badly. Mozilla is the only one that handles cookies like I want. Now I'm running seamonkey which is just another name for the same old mozilla. Dillo is great and fast but doesn't render 80% of pages correctly so it's pretty worthless except for text browsing. I use links and lynx sometimes. There you have it
I find it faster (ok, maybe not the first run LOL) and more stable than Fireferret
Tabs are better handled, lots of skins and are nice, quasi-perfect cross-platform support, widgets (aka plugins), customizable as hell, a lot of panels available, mail client integrated (which I use a lot), mouse gestures (which are pretty comfortable and more user friendly than anything), lots of keyboard shortcuts that are well placed and handy... did I forget something?
Anyway, if something doesn't display or flash/video support becomes odd, FF is always there as a backup
You ought to try to see it yourself
I run Firefox on windows, and linux, as well as a PortableFirefox(windows usb). I prefer the adblock functionality in firefox, and that's what's kept me away from opera. I do like the standards compliance of opera 9(passed the Acid2 test), but adblock and the web developer toolbar are the two things that keep me on firefox.
Latest Seamonkey (the new Mozilla 1.8.x) without Calendar/Mailnews/Composer/Chatzilla and compiled for my architecture. Mozilla's Download-Manager sucks, though. I don't know why it sucks up the CPU. Konqueror is fine, but it segfaults sometimes when I delete a folder or unmount a CD. Latest Firefox when GooglePages doesn't recognize any of the two above.
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