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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Replacement for firefox?

pfft, you're all overstating the effect of deps on epiphany.

You've got ram... use it. For 512mb ram and over and the gnome deps are irrelevant in terms of ram usage.

The deps will be insignificant compared to the amount of ram used by Gecko or Webkit.

smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 420

Re: Replacement for firefox?

F3 here with out any issues that some have said?

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Replacement for firefox?

conkeror: xulrunner based, handled with emacs shortcuts. git-version only.

dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: Replacement for firefox?

Midori: kind of unstable, currently lacks cookie support. Currently under heavy development, git version may be more useful or more crashy depending on the day.

Kazehakase: stable, ugly, buggy; needs to be recompiled against current Gecko but supports Webkit.

Epiphany: Gnome-only.

Galeon: Yes, it's been updated and compiles against current Gecko!

Netsurf: sloooooooowwwwww.

Dillo: doesn't support enough stuff to be remotely useful.\

Icecat: GNU Firefox clone. Needs Gnome libraries for some stupid reason.

Skipstone: ugly, low on features. Works.

Useful nutshell roundup, Gullible. Thanks.

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ST.x

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 363

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Re: Replacement for firefox?

I went from the spookyet-firefox build to the firefox-optimized to now swiftweasel-intel64-pgo (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20878) and im really liking this one.

Last edited by ST.x (2008-10-25 13:29:35)

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blackbeast

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 4

Re: Replacement for firefox?

I use Arora sometimes. Not still finished, but I like it... It is pretty fast...

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Replacement for firefox?

Opera wins the day, it's fast and stable ( I usually have 10+ tabs open)
Many features built-in with no extension:
Mouse Gestures
Mail client + RSS feed
IRC client
bittorrent client (though I don't use it at all)
the way opera manages download is non intrusive, and resume actually works
support all mozilla plugins
there is a nice adblock in the aur
the content blocking of opera is really nice ( otherwise on internet it's like christmas every day)
easy to manage/edit cookie, site preference
support of custom css and custom javascript

Edit: I forgot to write about the possibility to edit the source code of a page and reloading it on the go
and the possibility to load and save in .mht (web archive format that allows the page + images to be saved in a single file)

Some things that could be improved though
an equivalent of the scrapbook extension
a download manager/accelerator like downthemall (I got around by adding an option "open with kget" to opera menu)
Javascript and Ajax could be somewhat faster
sometimes flash doesn't load all on websites like deezer (well it's adobe fault, on windows it works)

Last edited by ChoK (2008-10-25 21:40:48)

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