Poll: What Internet Browser do you use in Linux?
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RedRooster
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I kinda like the newest build of Mozilla. It has custom skins(which I know doesn't make a performance difference), and they look quite good. 
Also, Netscape is a piece of crap to develop web pages for, so I have been using Mozilla the most lately. It runs just as fast, if not faster than Netscape anyways.
Also, Netscape is a piece of crap to develop web pages for, so I have been using Mozilla the most lately. It runs just as fast, if not faster than Netscape anyways.
Mozilla's new release of course.
I was using Opera for a while, but I am not so happy with it's interface. Konqueror is okay, but kinda slow and it doesn't render all the pages as well as Mozilla does.
Netscape 6 wouldn't even install on my machine. I tried the version that downloads from the web as well as the complete version. Neither worked. So, off to Mozilla I went.
Oh, and the 4.x versions always seemed to like crashing or becoming completely non responsive. Ick. I wish IE would be ported to Linux. Sorry, super Linux fiends. I love the features of IE.
I was using Opera for a while, but I am not so happy with it's interface. Konqueror is okay, but kinda slow and it doesn't render all the pages as well as Mozilla does.
Netscape 6 wouldn't even install on my machine. I tried the version that downloads from the web as well as the complete version. Neither worked. So, off to Mozilla I went.
Oh, and the 4.x versions always seemed to like crashing or becoming completely non responsive. Ick. I wish IE would be ported to Linux. Sorry, super Linux fiends. I love the features of IE.
What's the different between Netscape 6.0 and Mozilla 0.6??? Interface and everything else looks the same except the logo. The only othe thing I noticed was that I was able to install Mozilla and Netscape 6.0 wouldn't the day and time.
I could be completely off base here, but from what I can tell, there are differences.
Mozilla's bar is different as far as I can tell. Uh.. you can also send bugs right to Jan Tinder (the Tinderbox as it were. She is the former SQA director at Apple back in the Gil Amelio days). I don't believe AIM comes with Mozilla..
Of course, the installer is different as well. I also think that the newest point release is in fact newer than Netscape 6 which would mean, in theory, less bugs.
Anyhow, Netscape 6/Mozilla can finally display nested layers correctly (yay!). So, if you only use Netscape, it seems like a must download to view www pages in their true form. No more making separate pages for IE and Netscape people just because the old Netscape 4.x sucks so badly.
Mozilla's bar is different as far as I can tell.
Uh.. you can also send bugs right to Jan Tinder (the Tinderbox as it were. She is the former SQA director at Apple back in the Gil Amelio days). I don't believe AIM comes with Mozilla..Of course, the installer is different as well. I also think that the newest point release is in fact newer than Netscape 6 which would mean, in theory, less bugs.
Anyhow, Netscape 6/Mozilla can finally display nested layers correctly (yay!). So, if you only use Netscape, it seems like a must download to view www pages in their true form. No more making separate pages for IE and Netscape people just because the old Netscape 4.x sucks so badly.
Galeon-Feels like it loads faster than Mozilla even though its using the Gecko engine. Also, I like the ability to use the GFM download manager. Pretty cool if you are downloading multiple files from sites. galeon.sourceforge.com
Jim
Jim
Latest version of Konqueror (version 1.9.8 - KDE 2.1 beta-1) or Lynx.
The version of Konqueror I'm using is fairly stable and hasn't crashed in a while. I update KDE regularly using CVSup. I've also got the anti-aliased extensions to XFree86 installed, so it actually looks good as well... It can't render some pages very well and Javascript support isn't complete yet but it's very usable. Unlike Opera on Windows, it doesn't keep crashing.
The version of Konqueror I'm using is fairly stable and hasn't crashed in a while. I update KDE regularly using CVSup. I've also got the anti-aliased extensions to XFree86 installed, so it actually looks good as well... It can't render some pages very well and Javascript support isn't complete yet but it's very usable. Unlike Opera on Windows, it doesn't keep crashing
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SUOrangeman
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Me too, the only gripe I have about it is the fact that it takes forver and a day to load. But that seems to be the case for all my Linux programs.
nexus9...
You can use CVSup to make sure you've got the latest (and greatest?) version of KDE by downloading it directly from the developers' CVS repository. The one flaw is that you're dealing with development versions so they might not compile or will crash more than a release version, but I can live with the crashes and my C++/QT/KDE skills are sufficient so that I can fix some of the compile problems.
The advantage of using CVSup over downloading daily snapshots is that it only downloads the bits that have changed! Which saves a lot of time. It usually takes me about 20 mins to update it every weekend using a V90 modem; plus 5 or so hours recompiling on my 850Mhz Tbird/128mb. Using conventional CVS is too slow for me, which is why I use CVSup.
If you want to know more, go to www.kde.org and click on the "Development versions" link on the left of the window and scroll down a bit. It tells you how to get hold of a CVSup client and to set up the CVSup file (there are various mirrors - UK, US and Germany (which I use)). CVSup is quite intelligent; if you have some KDE-2 sources already which you've downloaded or got on a CDRom, you can update using these as the basis for the update - you don't have to go from scratch.
You can use CVSup to make sure you've got the latest (and greatest?) version of KDE by downloading it directly from the developers' CVS repository. The one flaw is that you're dealing with development versions so they might not compile or will crash more than a release version, but I can live with the crashes and my C++/QT/KDE skills are sufficient so that I can fix some of the compile problems.
The advantage of using CVSup over downloading daily snapshots is that it only downloads the bits that have changed! Which saves a lot of time. It usually takes me about 20 mins to update it every weekend using a V90 modem; plus 5 or so hours recompiling on my 850Mhz Tbird/128mb. Using conventional CVS is too slow for me, which is why I use CVSup.
If you want to know more, go to www.kde.org and click on the "Development versions" link on the left of the window and scroll down a bit. It tells you how to get hold of a CVSup client and to set up the CVSup file (there are various mirrors - UK, US and Germany (which I use)). CVSup is quite intelligent; if you have some KDE-2 sources already which you've downloaded or got on a CDRom, you can update using these as the basis for the update - you don't have to go from scratch.
CVS is Concurrent Version System. It's a way of keeping a central repository of files for use by many and keeping those files all the same. CVSup, is actually shorthand for the command cvs update, or cvs up, which, once you've created the proper directories and fetched the files will update any changes since the last you updated.
Quite a nice system. We use it at work our DNS.
Quite a nice system. We use it at work our DNS.
I use Konqueror in the latest CVS of KDE2 and Mozilla 0.6 when Konqueror doesn't render the pages correctly or refuses to load the page.
The difference between Mozilla 0.6 and Netscape 6 is "bloat"; Netscape 6 is to be avoided at all cost because of blatant banner ads, etc., and it installs a huge amount of cruft that simply does not need to be there. Galeon is excellent, but I'd rather just stick with Mozilla, thank you. The latest Opera beta for Linux isn't too bad, either, but there's no word yet on whether, like its 5.0 siblings, it will be _free_, so I'm not using it as my browser.
Why Konqueror? 1) It's free; 2) it works, by golly, on a majority of pages I visit; 3) it's quite fast, even faster than Mozilla 0.6 on my machines (Celeron 550 and a Sparc2).
Why Mozilla? 1) It's free; 2) it loads practically everything out there; 3) it's decently fast.
AFAIK there is no IE for non-Windows/Macintosh OSes.
My rule of thumb is that if a browser won't build under Linux-2.4.0-test12, Solaris 8, and NetBSD 1.5, then I'm not even going to consider it. =P
The difference between Mozilla 0.6 and Netscape 6 is "bloat"; Netscape 6 is to be avoided at all cost because of blatant banner ads, etc., and it installs a huge amount of cruft that simply does not need to be there. Galeon is excellent, but I'd rather just stick with Mozilla, thank you. The latest Opera beta for Linux isn't too bad, either, but there's no word yet on whether, like its 5.0 siblings, it will be _free_, so I'm not using it as my browser.
Why Konqueror? 1) It's free; 2) it works, by golly, on a majority of pages I visit; 3) it's quite fast, even faster than Mozilla 0.6 on my machines (Celeron 550 and a Sparc2).
Why Mozilla? 1) It's free; 2) it loads practically everything out there; 3) it's decently fast.
AFAIK there is no IE for non-Windows/Macintosh OSes.
My rule of thumb is that if a browser won't build under Linux-2.4.0-test12, Solaris 8, and NetBSD 1.5, then I'm not even going to consider it. =P
Konqueror and Lynx work well for me,just depends on my mood.Nutscrape isnt installed and never will be on my box.Never tried Mozilla because what I have already suites my needs.
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