Linux Web Browsers Compared

Rob Valliere writes: "The best Linux Web browsers have dramatically improved in the past few months: they are all stable, standards compliant and loaded with solid feature enhancements and additions. Using Red Hat 7.2 and the KDE desktop, the premier Linux browsers are Galeon 1.0.3, Mozilla 0.9.8 and Opera 6.0 TP3. The best Web downloads and installs were from Opera and Mozilla, which have minimal dependencies. Galeon is a small download but can be difficult to upgrade due to its Mozilla and GNOME dependencies."

Comments

The most important choices are missing

[Krapangor]

• lynx
• netcat with less
• vi
• emacs
• ed
• telnet

Graphics is just for banner ads.

Re:Using mozilla

[Spankophile]

It's curious to see how netscape 4.x isn't even included [...]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

KDE needs a porn browser...Kunnilingus?

[Ukab the Great]

Despite what people say about Konqueror, you haven't really made it in the open source browser world until you have a fork like Pornzilla that's truly devoted to surfing the forgotten 20% of the traffic on the internet.

Re:Table rendering performance

[Simon Brooke]

One area where IE simply trashes Netscape and Mozilla is rendering huge tables. I'm talking about the 1 meg of text variety. Has anyone tried putting the various browers through the paces on this kind of test?

If you've got 1 meg of text in a table, you've solved the wrong problem. That's more than a full-length novel.