Best WebBrowser

ripp3r · 2010-07-25 09:23:32

hi all

I just wanna know which is the best web browser.

I used Firefox for a long time and I'm happy with that, this under Windows, but with linux I'd like to use something else. Epiphany is not what I like, you cannot delete (easly) your personal data.

So according to this page:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … #Graphical

What do you use? And... why?

EDIT: I use ARORA

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Allan · 2010-07-25 09:42:49

links

jasonwryan · 2010-07-25 10:02:36

...etc...

lman · 2010-07-25 10:13:02

I used to use Firefox for a long time, but last week I made the switch to chromium, since the adblock in chromium is not only an element hider, but real adblocker.
It's faster in almost every way. The only hiccup I found that youtube sometimes defaults to html5 video instead of flash and the playback won't work
On extensions side I think it's on par with firefox now. It's probably because much more development is going into chromium and chromium plugins than to firefox...

Edit: I use chromium-browser-bin from aur + AdBlock, FlashControl + other less important plugins
Edit2: cleaning your private data -> main menu->tools->clear browsing data...

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vi3dr0 · 2010-07-25 12:49:33

Chromium + Vimium plugin.

wonder · 2010-07-25 13:06:54

lman wrote:

I used to use Firefox for a long time, but last week I made the switch to chromium, since the adblock in chromium is not only an element hider, but real adblocker.

are you joking no?:P

since now adblocker along and flashblock WAS only an element hider. Now adblocker can only block certain ads but not all compared with firefox. Flashblock is still a hider and can't actually block any flash. If you see, flashplugin is running and the content is only hidden.

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splittercode · 2010-07-25 13:11:59

vimprobable with tabbed(from suckless), started with this script

TID=`tabbed -d 2>/dev/null`
vimprobable -e $TID

bernarcher · 2010-07-25 13:16:54

Midori + VimNav user script for keyboard navigation (partly) similar to vimperator.

In future most probably jumanji (provided it evolves well).

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lman · 2010-07-25 13:32:38

wonder wrote:

lman wrote:
I used to use Firefox for a long time, but last week I made the switch to chromium, since the adblock in chromium is not only an element hider, but real adblocker.
are you joking no?:P
since now adblocker along and flashblock WAS only an element hider. Now adblocker can only block certain ads but not all compared with firefox. Flashblock is still a hider and can't actually block any flash. If you see, flashplugin is running and the content is only hidden.

quoting adblock description:

New in version 2.0: Ads are actually BLOCKED FROM DOWNLOADING now, instead of just being removed after the fact!
Note that Chrome doesn't actually support this all the way, so a few resources might still load before AdBlock can get to them, in which case we'll remove those as usual. AdBlock does block resources flawlessly in Safari -- get it at safariadblock.com.

Flashblock is blocking the content of the flash, So it's true it's still there, but it eats much less memory. Look at the screenshots at flashblock, the second one:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/de … caignabnl#

Edit: I said "not ONLY on element hider", but partly a real blocker. Partly was missing though...

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xenobrain · 2010-07-25 13:34:33

Be sure to give Opera a spin. It's a bit of a love-it or hate-it browser, but those who love it (like me) really love it! Any way that you look at it, there's nothing quite like it. Firefox with a dozen addons or so can match features but not the cohesiveness nor does it have all the nice little touches Opera is famous for.

schen · 2010-07-25 13:54:59

I use chromium and uzbl, although I'm looking at jumanji right now.

Army · 2010-07-25 14:21:10

IMHO the best browser for most people is chromium. But not for me, I am currently somewhere between uzbl and jumanji, they are both great, but jumanji is more actively developed and right now I like them both the same, so ... right now I use jumanji and it's really a pleasure using it!

alexandrite · 2010-07-25 14:26:25

I've been using conkeror recently, and it's really quite nice. It has the same minimal, keyboard-driven interface as uzbl or surf or whatever, but with the xulrunner backend, which imho is far more reliable and mature than webkit.

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wonder · 2010-07-25 14:37:25

lman wrote:

wonder wrote:
lman wrote:
I used to use Firefox for a long time, but last week I made the switch to chromium, since the adblock in chromium is not only an element hider, but real adblocker.
are you joking no?:P
since now adblocker along and flashblock WAS only an element hider. Now adblocker can only block certain ads but not all compared with firefox. Flashblock is still a hider and can't actually block any flash. If you see, flashplugin is running and the content is only hidden.
quoting adblock description:
New in version 2.0: Ads are actually BLOCKED FROM DOWNLOADING now, instead of just being removed after the fact!
Note that Chrome doesn't actually support this all the way, so a few resources might still load before AdBlock can get to them, in which case we'll remove those as usual. AdBlock does block resources flawlessly in Safari -- get it at safariadblock.com.

Flashblock is blocking the content of the flash, So it's true it's still there, but it eats much less memory. Look at the screenshots at flashblock, the second one:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/de … caignabnl#

so everything that i said is true in big words

toxygen · 2010-07-25 15:43:29

i'm using firefox on both windows (at work) and here (arch). same extensions (noscript, request policy, greasemonkey, userstyles, etc), keep bookmarks synchronized with xmarks (using own server), same about:config settings (as many as windows can handle anyway), same hosts files. works for me

bananaoomarang · 2010-07-25 17:14:48

I flit bettween firefox and chromium because of NTLM proxy issues. i think chromium is better though. It feels lighter and faster.

drcouzelis · 2010-07-25 17:58:23

I use Firefox for ideological reasons. It is free and open source and it has a great plugin system. Sometimes I consider using something like Chromium because it feels a bit faster and lighter, but I think those benefits of Firefox outweigh the drawbacks.

Inxsible · 2010-07-25 19:18:19

1) jumanji !

2) chromium for some odd cases when jumanji doesn't work.

anonymous_user · 2010-07-25 22:05:00

Firefox as my primary browser and Chromium as secondary.

Foucault · 2010-07-25 22:22:37

drcouzelis wrote:

I use Firefox for ideological reasons. It is free and open source and it has a great plugin system. Sometimes I consider using something like Chromium because it feels a bit faster and lighter, but I think those benefits of Firefox outweigh the drawbacks.

My thoughts exactly. Firefox is a beast but I can't live without it (vimperator+adblock/flashblock+greasemonkey=luv!). According to my experience, Chromium is indeed quite faster, no doubt, but I don't think it's much lighter than (vanilla) firefox, memory-wise.

tuxador · 2010-07-26 20:59:25

1) opera, like it a lot (i have sadly some issues with forums registration, like tihs one )
2)chromium, to log in my favourite forums (archlinux.fr, ubuntu-fr.org and a medical forum ^_^ )

if anyone can help me to resolve this problem, i would be glad

milomouse · 2010-07-28 17:15:24

i've tried all the webkit browsers I could find (hoping they would yield faster results than each prior) but i guess it's a webkit thing since they're all slow as hell for me. an optimized firefox pgo build loads almost instantaneously for me. i guess if i knew how to "optimize" webkit i would but i really haven't found a reason to dislike firefox or the gecko engine in general, regardless of how "ideal" i find jumanji, surf, dwb, uzbl, etc. also, i can't reproduce every add-on i use (among others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … 6a37d3e341 seeing as i'm no network specialist so firefox is my vote.

edit: fixed link..

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tzervo · 2010-07-29 01:29:28

I cycle between conkeror/jumanji/uzbl (all of them great browsers) and cannot decide which to keep.

1) conkeror. I find xulrunner more fast/reliable than webkit (like alexandrite), webjumps/hints work, great hinting copy mode. not as modular/light as the other two (although it _is_ light)

2) uzbl. great integration with dmenu, very fast startup, the most modular, but webkit rendering is very slow at times, and uzbl fails at some sites with javascript when conkeror does not (eg. wiggle.co.uk when you try to buy something, that was the last but not the only one I've found, I havent filed a bug report yet as I want to search it a bit more in case I did smething wrong). Also wget is sometimes PITA to use when the site has php redirections etc

3) jumanji. same as above regarding webkit/wget, no dmenu integration (this is good and bad since dmenu has no copy/paste but is excellent for chossing an item from a list ie bookmarks) but it feels to me as more stable/reliable than uzbl (which uses webkit as well) even though it is a much newer project.

The result is me switching between them and not be able to decide which is "the one". :-)

shetland_breeder · 2010-07-29 08:14:38

ripp3r wrote:

hi all
I just wanna know which is the best web browser.

It depends what value of 'best' you are using. All browsers are 'best' for some value of best.

Pete

archtaku · 2010-08-02 03:44:46

Chromium, dev channel. Been using Chromium for about 3-4 months now and love it. So much faster than Firefox.

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