By Popular Demand: More Linux Browsers

Chris Halsall writes "Based on the great feedback generated by the posting of my Web Browsers under Linux article on /. and LinuxToday last month, WebReview has published an unplanned follow-up article covering four more browsers.

By Popular Demand: More Linux Browsers "

Comments

Mozilla and Browser Competition

[Maul]

The more browsers the better. There is no way you're going to make every single user happy with just one or two major browsers. Right now, most Linux users probably use either Lynx or Netscape 4.x. Lynx is great for text only browsing, but if you want the graphics, you need something within X.

There are a good deal of browsers coming into the picture though. Opera, Konqueror, etc.

And let us not forget that Mozilla is shaping up nicely. M13 is actually useable in most cases, and it renders pages rather nicely (and in most cases doesn't actually crash as much as Netscape 4.x). If they can stamp out the expected development bugs, get rid of the debug code (which slows it down a bunch), and get the thing released, I don't think Linux users will have too much to complain about.

Even if Mozilla ends up ruling, I think we need as many browsers as possible on every platform. This will prevent any one browser from becoming too dominant, and also force web designers to actually write HTML according to W3C standards (something that is often ignored even by "major" web pages). I think the increase in browsers will be a good thing, overall.

"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"

If you like 'w3m', try 'links' too...

[egnor]

... though it doesn't get nearly as much press, it has a lot of interesting features in its own right (like asynchronous table layout, background downloading, and a UI which I much prefer to w3m's).

It still lacks some things (like cookie support), though. See the home page for more info.