For Linux users: What browser do you use? and Why? [closed]

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What is your default web browser and why?

I use Ubuntu and as a standard web browser I use Firefox. I have an Intel video driver that's not well supported so Flash isn't great for me in any browser, but I've been checking out alternatives including Opera and Chromium.

What web browser is your defacto portal to the world-wide-web? Does it perform better on Linux for you? What are other reasons?

Answer 1

Firefox - Its nice and easy to use

Answer 2

Opera as default browser, I've been using it since v5 on Windows, so it's also on my Linux boxes. FireFox is also installed, in case some website is too crappy to work decently with Opera... (yes, FaceBook, I'm looking at you!)

Answer 3

Firefox, it depend on the plugins now - yes it takes more memory than the other browsers, but for the features it provides it's worth it.

Just to list some of the addons I use:

• adblock plus
• noscript
• firebug
• hide menubar
• tab mix plus
• foxyproxy
• autopager

Plus Firefox comes loaded by default on Ubuntu!

Here is a nice picture summarizing the major browsers (without Chrome):

Answer 4

uzbl

Uzbl follows the UNIX philosophy - "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

• very minimal graphical interface. You only see what you need
• what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, ... are handled through external scripts that you write
• controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more
• advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)
• focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats
• Uzbl keeps it simple, and puts you in charge.

It's certainly not for everyone, the readme on github explains this well:

THIS PROJECT IS NOT FOR:

• people want a browser that does everything
• people who want a browser with things like a built-in bookmark manager, address bar, forward/back buttons, ...
• people who expect something that works by default. You'll need to read configs and write/edit scripts
• people who like nothing from this list: mpd, moc, wmii, dwm, awesome, mutt, pine, vim, dmenu, screen, irssi, weechat, bitlbee

Answer 5

I also like Opera as a browser. It is simple to use and the mouse gestures is a decent feature. I keep opera as my standby browser as I prefer Firefox like Krish.

Opera is a great Plan B for me.

Answer 6

Dillo (bleeding edge of the mercurical repository).

Might be worth noting that my linux boxes are all more than a few years old at this point.

Answer 7

I use Firefox on Linux, Windows, and even sometimes Mac, so that I can share my settings, bookmarks, RSS feeds, and browser history between all the machines I wind up using

Answer 8

I use Konqueror for most browsing - it shares resources with KDE, my primary desktop environment, so it's significantly faster and lighter than any other Linux browser I've seen. (That would not necessarily be the case if I weren't already using KDE)

The downside of Konqueror is its lackluster Javascript support, and for that reason I fall back on Firefox for browsing sites in which Konqueror doesn't support the scripts - like the StackOverflow family, and Facebook. (I think that's about it, actually) Note that I use an old version of Konqueror, 3.5.10; the Javascript support is much better, but still imperfect, in the cutting-edge 4.2.x series.

Answer 9

Firefox of course! I also use it on windows. Why? It's the best browser out there, plus I've gotten used to it and dependent on several plugins such AdBlockPlus and tons others.

If there was a chrome for linux I'd also try it out, but it wouldn't be my main browser.