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Sunday 23 December 2007

Stable web browser for GNU/Linux

Firefox is the web browser that comes on nearly all GNU/Linux distros, and often is the sole one (i.e. there is no other preinstalled web browser). But the truth is, firefox under GNU/Linux is still very buggy, and I reckon it should be considered a beta. But GNU/Linux users: don't dispair! There are two other web browsers that aren't so buggy (and alot more if you use google 8-0); namely Epiphany and Konqueror. Konqueror comes with KDE as part of the package, so if you use KDE and haven't tried out Konqueror for web browsing, give it a go. I can tell you it's one of the best out there. For GNOME users, try out epiphany (most users will have to download and install the package as it doesn't come with many (if not any) GNOME distros). Epiphany is very stable, but it's not nearly as feature rich as Firefox. Use epiphany if you want a good, stable web browser that doesn't crash all too often (in fact I am typing this under epiphany right now ;D), but isn't too feature rich either. Both Epiphany and Konqueror run on either platform (GNOME or KDE) but generally, Konqueror will run better on KDE and Epiphany will run better on GNOME (that goes for lot's of other apps too). For Xfce/Fluxbox/[insert obscure desktop environment here] users, you probably know what you're doing! ;)

4 comments:

TheguywholikeselectronicsandLinux said...

Unless FF2 is realy buggy on Ubuntu i think i will stick with it.

Being a web designer and programmer i like some of the features on FF2 notably FireBug (realy cool!)

Colonel Panic said...

Yeah well future versions of firefox will probably iron out most of the crashes/bugs.

TheguywholikeselectronicsandLinux said...

Hopefully

Colonel Panic said...

Yeah well firefox under windoze is wicked. What you could do if you really don't want any bugs is install Wine in ubuntu, then install the windoze version of firefox.