Linux Browsers

[Devari]

I suppose this could be a nice central topic for the sporadic discussions of Linux browsers (mostly, it seems, between Beatles and I).

So, anyway...

I ran some tests on the browsers on my computer. The following ranks (roughly) the performance levels:

Top-Notch: Opera, Konqueror, and Galeon
Middle: Epiphany
Er...: Firefox
WTF?: Mozilla (Seamonkey)

Konqueror is actually, surprisingly, very good. KHTML actually appears somewhat faster than Gecko in quite a few areas. Galeon is by far the best Gecko browser.

Firefox does an awful job, compared to what I would expect. On Windows, it is the best I have tried. But, on Linux - ug.

KDE Wallet is a very good system. On the flipside, my Firefox Password Manager is seriously borked.

I have faith for Firefox 1.1 (seeing as it has the new Gecko and all...), but it seems it has some catching up to do - even compared to its cousins!

[The Beatles]

You forgot the fastest and my favorite: elinks. It's even got rudimentary javascript support, and man, is it blazing over X! Plus it means you can get nice formatted tables to paste into text fields later. I used it for testing today; what with the colors and all it's almost indistinguishable from mainstream browsers on simple sites; and is pretty amazing at even more complex sites.

But: great review otherwise. Galeon and Konqueror are the only two that will complete local URLs for you too.

[Devari]

Yeah, Galeon and Konqueror are great.

I'm a graphics whore. Can't read webcomics in (e)Links.

Firefox also runs really poorly with other programs running. Konqueror takes a minimal hit, but FF crashes and burns.

[windhound]

Konqueror works like IE with FTP.. which is really really appriciated..

Firefox is still one of the better browsers, I just like its user interface..

yay for webcomics..

[The Beatles]

Yes, Firefox certainly has the best UI of them all. Konqueror is just unappealing, Opera is way overdone, Galeon and Epiphany are quirky (Galeon has a horrid icon... Epiphany uses the site's icon as the browser icon... gah). Elinks lacks a solid URL bar.

Konqueror in general will behave very nicely with a multitude of protocols, due to kio_slaves, and because it's also a file manager.

[Devari]

Yeah, the only point FF scores is over the fact that Konq, Opera, Galeon, and Epiph are really, really ugly.

[Floppy_Drive]

No internet on my linux computer.

[Slasher]

Dunno about the others ~I always tend to use the default one for some reason...