Anyone on Linux probably has their opinion of their favorite browser. Without the choice of IE, you have much safer browsers to use. But which one is the best? I’ll take a look at what I think are the top three: Firefox (and Mozilla), Konqueror, and Opera.
Firefox: This is probably the most popular browser among the Linux world. The advantages of Firefox include good compatibility with most sites, and stability (it hasn’t crashed on me yet, but I don’t use it that heavily)
Konqueror: Konqueror is probably the most versatile and feature rich browser on Linux. It has tons of great features, complete compatibility with KDE themes and such, a fast loading interface, and arguably the fastest rendering engine out, KHTML. KHTML isn’t as widely compatible on the web as Gecko (for example, WYSIWYG doesn’t always work, AJAX doesn’t work as well) but it’s blazing fast
Opera: I haven’t used Opera that much, but I do like some of what I see. I really like it’s default theme and button styles, and it starts up pretty quick, but I’m not sure if it is actually that good of a browser in general. Some javascripts don’t work properly, and is not as compatible with sites as Gecko. One odd thing I noticed was that it was set to identify itself as Internet Explorer by default.
So, which one wins? I think the winners are Konqueror and Firefox. I don’t think I’ll use Opera until it gets more compatible, but I am already using both Firefox and Konqueror for my normal web browsing. I try to use Konqueror for everything I can, but for things like Netvibes and GMail, Firefox is the next icon on the Kicker.
October 12, 2005 at 5:50 pm |
I use gnome on linux and almost exclusively use Firefox. It is very good. I have got into the habit of using Konquerer as an Ftp client due to the fact that when I did use KBear I thought it was awful.
November 20, 2005 at 4:06 am |
opera is rulez! give it some time!