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[q9c9p]

Pardon me for reviving such a old topic, if you are on ubuntu try out "Midori" web browser, is based on WebKit.
If you do web development you can also get Internet Exploder 6 to run with wine for testing websites you might be working on.

Ciao
q9c9p

[Vistz]

q9c9p, on 18 January 2011 - 10:06 AM, said:

Pardon me for reviving such a old topic, if you are on ubuntu try out "Midori" web browser, is based on WebKit.
If you do web development you can also get Internet Exploder 6 to run with wine for testing websites you might be working on.

Ciao
q9c9p

I've been experimenting with different browsers and I've come to enjoy Arora and SeaMonkey as well. I noticed that Google Chrome leaks memory like anything and Firefox is starting to get clunky. Arora and SeaMonkey are both simple and lightweight.

[danielhep]

I'm using Google Chrome on Windows right now, and I use the same on Ubuntu. Google Chrome is fast, efficient, and safe. I once did a full on, isolated browser test (I reinstalled the operating system image every time I tested a browser), and Google Chrome came out on top. Not only is it fast, it's also open source and expandable. It has a huge extensions gallery where you can add on to the browser as much as you want. It also has artist-made and Google-made themes for you to use which are also all free. A newer added feature is Apps, which let you open a new tab and have a bunch of web-apps that you can choose from. It's like Google Chrome OS in an application! It also scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test.

As a web developer and application developer, I suggest you use Google Chrome.

Edited by danielhep, 14 July 2011 - 02:34 AM.

[soniat]

sure its chrome..............but am sing the firfox for easy and variety of add-ons...

[Iniyila]

For Ubuntu my favorite one is always FireFox, installing apps is easier in windows than linux but linux gives you more professional and customizable environment, so what firefox do here is providing you tons of extensions which you need in Ubuntu, a browser with lots of extensions is a must when you are using a linux distro and firefox is a lot faster in ubuntu than linux specially in its start time which takes 3 times less to come up for the first time compared to win7 in my machine. Firefox is a lot customizable rather than any other web browser currently available, i even use it as a semi-os and i think we can expect soon to see a firefox OS with extensions as it applications.

But when you are in ubuntu, don't firget Opera too, it is more lightweighted than firefox and renders images faster and with help of its opera turbo you can view pages faster. opera is not very extension friendly and you can barely find usable widgets for it but it comes with many features built in that you don't get in firefox like the Inspect Element functionality which you can get in firefox using FireBUG extension. the adblocking system in Opera is not as powerful as Adblockplus of firefox but there are some ways to use the same database ADBlockPlus uses in opera too. i've found opera to be more friendly with the new looking of gmail compared to firefox because when i open my mail using firefox the scrolling is a bit laggy and the attachement popup comes up slowly but in opera all is very fast without any lag.

I haven't tested chrome in Ubuntu because i don't like it in windows either, i prefer to use opera and firefox together for getting performance and functionality and i have tested chrome in windows and it seems to be something between opera and firefox so i will still try to use FF and opera both at the same time instead of going for Chrome.


@workout : don't put only a link to a browser which you are saying it is the best, put at least the name of it and say a little about the experience you had with it.