Jeff91 Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I like firefox 4 (for the most part) but it is still good old heavy weight firefox... Lately I've been using Midori a lot (0.3.2 is really a solid release). What is your browser of choice?~Jeff Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Well for many years I only used Firefox but for the last 6 months of so, I have been mostly using Chromium and I like that I can sync my google accounts between machines. I also sometimes use Uzbl for web browsing. Uzbl is a bit different than most web browsers as it uses Vim-style shortcuts and only does one thing and one thing only, web browsing. Everything else uses scripts like bookmarks, cookies, etc. It is a pretty neat project that uses webkit. One of the developers on the Archlinux forums started this project last year. http://www.uzbl.org/That said, I still use Firefox for certain things. Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Here is the original thread:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70700The developer of Uzbl also is the one that paid for the email domain I use (@archlinux.us). It is a gmail-branded account and he has it paid for until 2017 so it should be fine for awhile. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52058 Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 OK, is this thing rigged? I plainly clicked Chromium but it voted for Firefox. Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I use many browsers for specific things, but as a general use browser, it's mostly Firefox ... and I use it across all OSes for consistency.That way, it doesn't much matter what OS I use, I always know where I am and what I am doing and what to expect from my browser.Plus I use some addons that I like to have available no matter what OS I am in, and mainly that is only available through Firefox in a cross-platform way. Quote
ChipDoc Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I was a Chrome guy back in the Windows days, and I still set it up on every Windows machine I touch. When I came over to Linux, I used Chromium, which I still use even though Chrome is now available. I love the way it integrates with all the Google stuffI've used many different browsers over the years - Netscape Navigator, Firefox, Opera... even Internet Explorer. But I generally use only one at a time and I use it for everything. Quote
saturnian Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Former Firefox guy, now using Chromium for everything. But I haven't removed Firefox from the distros that come with it. Quote
Frank Golden Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Chrome\Chromium and Firefox, mostly Firefox. Quote
ichase Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Firefox here only because I have not attempted to use anything else. Firefox works great for me and I have not found a reason to move on. Now for W1nD0w$ I only use Pale Moon. For those of you that still use W1nD0w$ I HIGHLY recommend it. ;)Ian Quote
onederer Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I use FireFox. I also like Opera. I have to use Internet Explorer, because CitiBank prevents me from accessing my credit card account if it detects that FF or any other browser, except Netscape, to enter the account. It automatically sends me back to login again, and again. I can't get past that point, unless I'm using MS Internet Explorer.NOTE: CitiBank has made some changes to it's web site. I can now login to my account, as long as I don't click on the "allow" button on top of FF's browser, to allow my page to be forwarded. It's then I can finish my business. If I do click on the "allow" button, then it brings me back to the login page. At least that's progress! For years, those simple and single minded programmers have filtered out people who don't use Windows, and who don't use Internet Explorer. They said if I don't like it, then use Netscape to get in. They know that Netscape is a dead browser. However, I don't know if they made a mistake or not. And I hope that they don't find out about their "mistake"! At least I can finally take care of my on-line credit card business without having to activate Windows. I guess that in our days, the customer is always wrong. All other banks allow the use of FF, except for that CITIBANK. I wish I had the means of shaming them into doing the right thing! Quote
frapper Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Firefox. IE only for WinUpdates. I did use Opera and even SeaMonkey for a while. Haven't tried the FF 4 beta yet. Will wait until it's ready for prime time. Quote
réjean Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) I find that if I use ff 4 with half the desktop running Livestation ( either Al Jazeera, France 24 or BBC ) while playing Sudoku online in the other half it has the tendency to crash so what I do now is run one in FF and the other in Chrome.Like this; Edited March 1, 2011 by réjean Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I run FF in Linux primarily, but I usually have a Seamonkey (for HTML editing) and Opera installed, too. Actually, I even have buttons for them in my FF. (see Fig. 1)Figure 1Oh, and I run IE 8 in my Win 7 installation on the laptop. My XP installation was a moot situation because it did not have networking installed (no I-net access). Quote
ichase Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Speed dial??? I really need to unleash the power of FF. Mine don't do anything but search the web. Well, I was able to inport my favorites from IE very easily. Quote
abarbarian Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Namoroka in Enlightenment or FF as it it usually called both in Arch and Windows 7. It is a bit of a biased poll after all where is IE7/8/9 ?? Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Speed dial??? I really need to unleash the power of FF. Mine don't do anything but search the web. Well, I was able to inport my favorites from IE very easily.Yup... SpeedDial GOOOOOOD! Quote
Urmas Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 It is a bit of a biased poll after all where is IE7/8/9 ?? .debs, .rpms... or [shudder!] from source? Quote
tforsman Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) Formerly FFox user, using only chromium now. Specially chromium 10.*** version.like how fast it starts and easy it is to sync everything from my google account. using pass/bookmarks/feeds and alot of other weird stuff in chromium :)Also html5 and Webgl works just great, like demo like: http://webglsamples.googlecode.com/hg/aquarium/aquarium.html :thumbsup:Edit: it's not my fault if your browser cant handle Webgl he he he (probably some users dont have that feature) Edited March 1, 2011 by tforsman Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I've sold nearly half my soul to Google already. I'll be d***ed if they get the rest of it. No Chrome for me. Quote
Eggdog Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I use Firefox for some things: my state library catalog, for instance, likes it. And there is a real cool extension called It's All Text! that allows me to type forum responses (like this one) in Emacs.I've been using Rekonq in Kubuntu. There are some things I like about it. I think it has a ways to go, but I'll be keeping a watchful eye on it.Chromium's interface kind of eludes me. That no doubt says more about me than it does about the developers of Chromium, who are universally smarter than I am. H***, their houseplants are smarter than I am!I don't currently have Midori installed anywhere. I did have more rendering problems than I did with other browsers. I liked its back-to-basics style, and will look at it again in a version or two.Epiphany has considerable virtues, but I'm 1 of those who tends to accumulate lots of bookmarks, and Epiphany's system of organizing bookmarks is not to my liking.Which brings me to my default. Opera isn't perfect, and I had considerable trouble with the 9.x series under Linux. Sometimes, pages don't look quite as nice as they do in Firefox; out-and-out misrendering is rare, but sometimes colors look a little less warm or lush.But Opera, blessedly, allows me to set customizations on a per-site basis. For instance, when I'm at my favorite weather site, I can turn animated .gifs on for the radar, and can leave them off everywhere else; the rolling smileys on this site, for instance, send me running to the vomitorium: yea, even making an offering at the porcelain altar: yea, even...yik, never mind!! In Firefox, .gif animation appears to be an all-or-nothing proposition. (There may be an extension for it, akin to the noble Flashblock for the Web's other reigning visual nuisance, but I can't find it. At one point, I used Epiphany for the sites that required .gif animation, and Firefox for almost everything else.) Rekonq, unfortunately, doesn't appear to let me turn them off at all.Opera manages to have an email/news client (a pretty darn good one, too), a Post-it note taker, a synchronizer, and some social media jazz, yet still remains fast and relatively uncluttered. (Though that is a matter of opinion. Some people just hate the interface.) It is also predominantly keyboard-driven.Opera is closed-source, and extensions are in their infancy. I doubt that Opera will ever have the developer ecosystem that Firefox has in abundance. But for now, it does most of what I want. Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 Wow, Eddy... and here I was thinking I was the only soul in the world who uses It's All Text. Quote
abarbarian Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 Formerly FFox user, using only chromium now. Specially chromium 10.*** version.like how fast it starts and easy it is to sync everything from my google account. using pass/bookmarks/feeds and alot of other weird stuff in chromium :)Also html5 and Webgl works just great, like demo like: http://webglsamples.googlecode.com/hg/aquarium/aquarium.html :thumbsup:Edit: it's not my fault if your browser cant handle Webgl he he he (probably some users dont have that feature)Yup Chrome sure has a load of stuff othere browsers ain't got http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/19-...le-1199922.html Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 Yup Chrome sure has a load of stuff othere browsers ain't got http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/19-...le-1199922.html Heh! Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 Yup Chrome sure has a load of stuff othere browsers ain't got http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/19-...le-1199922.html Yep, it's a browser all right. :hysterical:Haven't seen one that is perfect ... ever. That's why I love FF, security extensions like NoScript, FlashBlock, Adblock Plus, WOT, etc. Have to help the browser be more secure because they will always find holes in the browser world of swiss cheese. Quote
Frank Golden Posted March 2, 2011 Posted March 2, 2011 .debs, .rpms... or [shudder!] from source? OT here Urmie, but I was getting ready to send out a search party.Haven't heard from ya in awhile.How be ya. Quote
Cluttermagnet Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Firefox. I like to run it with AdBlock Plus and especially, NoScript.I've used Chrome and thought it OK. No issues in particular.So far as that 'integration with Google' stuff, am I the only Ludditein here when it comes to Google? I use their search, but I hatewhat they are doing with selling me out on the collected data.I don't have a Google account. No gmail, etc. Am I the only one?I just don't trust those guys to 'not be evil'. All my emails in abig, searchable box for them and their affiliates to rummage aroundin? I don't think so... Quote
ChipDoc Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 I just assume that they'll be evil sooner or later and don't worry about it. Anything I want to keep private, I don't put on the computer in the first place. As for Google, I accept that I'm trading info for convenience. It was ever thus... Quote
saturnian Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Anything I want to keep private, I don't put on the computer in the first place.That's precisely why I don't worry about Google. Someone at one of my jobs, some time ago, said something like, "If you wouldn't want it on the bulletin board in the break room, don't put it in an email." Since then, I've had a similar outlook even on my home computer. I don't know if Google is or will be "evil" or not, but I feel like it doesn't matter to me.As for GMail, I do use it but I certainly back up anything that I don't want to lose.As for Chromium, I use it because I like the extra space for viewing web pages, and because I like the way the tabs work. Also because it opens up so quickly. But I do use a modified Google search engine URL that doesn't include the RLZ part.However, it wasn't so easy for me to decide to switch from Firefox -- I've been using it for so long, and always loved it. When I started seeing add-ons for Chromium that worked about as good as the add-ons I used in Firefox, that was enough for me to give Chromium a serious look. I think I mentioned before that I've kept Firefox installed in distros that come with it, but gradually I noticed that I was using Chromium most of the time, and then all of the time.I have a soft spot in my heart for Firefox because it and Open Office were my introductions to the open source world, back when I was using Windows. Those apps eventually led me to Linux. Quote
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