What is the fastest RELIABLE browser for Linux

[wpshooter]

What is the fastest browser that can be used with Ubuntu Linux (Dapper Drake) O/S that is also on the VERY reliable/stable side ?

Thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

elinks or lynx

 

[Nothinman]

I use Galeon, FF is a hog on any OS.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

What n0cmonkey said unless you prefer a browser with a gui. In that case Opera is very fast and its always been reliable although its not open-source. If you don't mind that, its not bad.

I always thought Konqueror was a great browser too. I ran into a problem when I tried to get a plan online with Sprint. Firefox and Opera wouldn't correctly change my plan or cell phone when I tried to choose them (it involved a popup, selecting an option from a checkbox, and clicking submit or whatever; the submit wouldn't work with both of them). I tried Konqueror and it was able to choose it without a problem. While I'm in linux, I always fall back to Konqueror whenever I run into a problem.

 

[stupidkid]

Hmm Konqueror in Ubuntu requires a lot of extra packages since it's a KDE program. And elinks/lynx aren't really fun to use to be honest. You can also try epiphany, it's the Konquerer for Gnome.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I use Galeon, FF is a hog on any OS.

Not on my OS. I ran one or two tweaks and my memory usage is currently 60 megs. I've had firefox running all day and I have it with 13 tabs open right now, and they all pretty much have a history (I can hit back with them)..

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: stupidkid
And elinks/lynx aren't really fun to use to be honest.

Speak for yourself. I use them all the time.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: stupidkid
And elinks/lynx aren't really fun to use to be honest.

Speak for yourself. I use them all the time.

I always keep a copy of links installed just in case. Very useful if you're messing around with xorg..

 

[Nothinman]

Not on my OS. I ran one or two tweaks and my memory usage is currently 60 megs. I've had firefox running all day and I have it with 13 tabs open right now, and they all pretty much have a history (I can hit back with them)..

Not all of the memory is accounted to FF, run xrestop and see how much pixmap memory they're using. Obviously it'll vary depending on how many images FF has to keep in memory.

 

[sourceninja]

you guys know you can run links with -g to get a gui as well right?

I usually have it installed to test sites with in both text mode and gui mode.

Personally firefox is good enough for me though. I have no complaints.

 

[wpshooter]

Originally posted by: stupidkid
Hmm Konqueror in Ubuntu requires a lot of extra packages since it's a KDE program. And elinks/lynx aren't really fun to use to be honest. You can also try epiphany, it's the Konquerer for Gnome.

I have seen many positive postings and comments regarding Epiphany.

If it is superior to Firefox, can you tell me what are your thoughts as to why it is not the default incorporated/installed browser on Ubuntu Dapper Drake ?

Thanks.

 

[stupidkid]

I don't really use Epiphany and have nothing against Firefox, which is my default browser. It's just that Firefox does use more system resources than epiphany and since you asked for fast browsers, I just pointed Epiphany out.

@ sourceninja
Are you sure?

user@localhost:~$ links -g www.google.com
ELinks: Unknown option -g

Or am I missing something?

 

[sourceninja]

sounds like your version of links was not compiled with X support. You can see screenshots of links with a gui here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser).

Not sure what distro you are using. In gentoo you have to have X in your make.conf or in /etc/portage/package.use in order to get gui support for links.

I've actually used links after installing X, before installing gnome as a web browser while I wait for everything else to compile.

 

[stupidkid]

Oh, I'm in Ubuntu right now. I'll test it in Gentoo when I get home.

 

[sourceninja]

I just remembered there are a lot of flavors of links. Gentoo uses this flavor of links http://links.twibright.com/

 

[n0cmonkey]

-g works with the OpenBSD links package. :evil:

 

[xtknight]

SwiftFox is very fast, and it has the security of FireFox. I run it on Dapper Drake and it's much faster than anything else I've used. Opera, despite my love of it, is quite slow/ugly on Linux vs. in Windows. While not speedy, Opera is rock solid and it's easy to tell they spent time multi-threading it, because one tab doesn't freeze up the others.

SwiftFox is compatible with FF plugins like StumbleUpon and AdBlock Plus. I'm not sure about themes but SF is basically a repackaged/optimized FF. You get all the compatibility and all the speed. True, some command line browsers may be more compact (not necessarily faster), but you didn't mention if you wanted media playback/Flash support.

 

[silverpig]

I was about to second the links -g option. It's pretty sweet

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: xtknight
SwiftFox is very fast, and it has the security of FireFox. I run it on Dapper Drake and it's much faster than anything else I've used. Opera, despite my love of it, is quite slow/ugly on Linux vs. in Windows. While not speedy, Opera is rock solid and it's easy to tell they spent time multi-threading it, because one tab doesn't freeze up the others.

SwiftFox is compatible with FF plugins like StumbleUpon and AdBlock Plus. I'm not sure about themes but SF is basically a repackaged/optimized FF. You get all the compatibility and all the speed. True, some command line browsers may be more compact (not necessarily faster), but you didn't mention if you wanted media playback/Flash support.

Isn't swiftfox just firefox compiled for specific CPU archs (P4, P3, AMD64, AMD-xp, etx)? If thats the case I dont see how it solves the problems most people have with firefox (memory usage). My firefox is compiled for my arch, so I would gain nothing by using swiftfox.