Linux: Browser Wars

Anderson Silva writes "LinuxToday has an article doing a pretty basic comparison on some of the major linux browsers. Although a nice article, and with a fair result, I still think Opera is the best browser available for Linux." I prefer knoqueror, although recent builds seem to have random hangs on images.google.com.

Comments

Re:no text only browsers (and why?)

[isorox]

really how much information (I am intrested in )is presented in pictures on the web
not much I am sure

No, just a few million terrabytes of pr0n!

Re:Explorer?

[yooden]

You did notice that the article is about browsers under Linux, right?

Yup.

Suggesting a browser not available for Linux is as silly as a Windows magazine including reviews of MacOS and Linux software.

The magazine's name is 'Linux Magazin' so can be sure that they are not suggesting MSIE. It is not, however, good journalistic practice to ignore stuff related to the realm at hand. If MSIE running on Windows is a superior browsing platform than Linux running Whatever, this is worth mentioning, especially if lacking adherence to standards by the Free contenders is the reason.

Free software should win on merits, not on misinformation.

Re:credit where credit is due.

[ncc74656]

How I hate these MSIE troll posts.

Learn the definition of "troll" before you start slinging that label around. Just because you can't figure out how to get NT and/or IE to run reliably doesn't make someone who can a troll. (It's really not that difficult...start with a clean, vanilla install, apply SP3, install IE 5.5 to replace the IE 2.x that comes with NT, and apply SP6a. Or something like that...it's been a while since I've needed to reinstall NT on a box.)

Besides, in what way does a positive comment on IE under Windows reflect negatively on Linux? Did I say anything against Linux? The last time I checked (which was several months ago), FWIW, Konqueror was getting to where it would be usable. I think the only page on which it choked was MSN, which is (somewhat) understandable. Maybe that's been fixed since then; I don't have a system right now on which I can check it. If I need to browse within Linux, I normally use Lynx, but that's because I run Linux headless on a server (no X). As for Nutscrape, it's caused me no end of grief as a website developer (its level of support for HTML and CSS is horribly behind the times) and I've heard more than a few complaints of crashes under multiple OSen. I won't let it come anywhere near any of my computers...whether they run Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, or whatever (yes, I have systems running all of those).