What browser is good for ubuntu/debian linux? is it as good as Windows?
Monday, July 6th, 2009 at
05:05
Sorry, Gomez – ‘the only decent browser’ is fascist and untrue. Firefox is supported by Google resources and money, so it has good reason to be ahead of the competition.
Claudia’s advice about high virus/spyware protection is most interesting to linux users I’m sure!
Is it possible to get virus or spyware on linux?
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Wow, big question. Whilst I’m answering this question I have Yahoo Answers open in Epiphany browser – it remembers my password for login, and as my original account was deleted this is a useful function which keeps the account from interfering with Opera browser – this is my first choice. My favourite function of opera is the say I can select it (using alt-tab switch) or open it (alt+space, type ‘op’ hit enter) then type a single letter to select a search, and type in a query. (example ‘g debian’ gives google search, ‘gi gnome’ gives google image search gnome. ‘sc virus’ gives a Scirus search – and different engines have different strengths.
Mouse gestures and general operation of Opera are really top notch, and it handles web pages within the window (resizing, rearranging) better than Firefox – resizing the whole thing, not just fonts.
Firefox is next, version 3 with the venerable Gecko is a powerhouse – light and fast (a Ferrari maybe, but I think Opera is the Aston Martin) and with some cool heavyweight toolkit!
Firefox is up front now with theming, opera lagging – but still I found one amazing theme that suits me.
Next up is Midori – very small, renders perfectly, but with no advanced functions – that’s good to keep handy. Chrome works, as does Safari, if you need a webkit browser, but my question is ‘why?’.
Extra speed doesn’t improve the browsing experience – I keep them all open, and regularly do the same thing with all of them, and always prefer to stick to the native applications.
One more thing – if you use a Virtualbox, you can have XP Opera, XP firefox, XP chrome. If you install Vista there, you can also have the three Vista versions running – so really the question is how many browsers can you possibly use?
Just be sure that you have 2GB or more of RAM before you start to try that! You need 1.5GB for Vista, and XP is crappy with much less than 700MB.
Flock works, but didn’t play much yet. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and 8 are installable under WINE, and under VIRTUALBOX . . .
It’s crazy man! Sometimes I fill up so many workspaces I get lost! Good to have a fast cube switcher! (the ‘scale windows’ thumnails just get too tiny when you have more than 20 windows open).
FireFox is very functional in Linux and comes with Ubuntu right off the install. I find that it is faster under Linux than it is in Windows.
firefox comes installed with ubuntu
Definitely FireFox, the runs very very well on ubuntu, fast and safe.
if you are gonna try linux then try linux mint also. and by the way firefox is the only good browser in linux platforms….
Firefox.
Also, good luck finding an operating system that’s actually worse than Windows. Linux and OS X both kick the crap out of anything Microsoft has ever put out.
Mozilla Firefox browser is best for ubuntu/ debian breeds, by windows im guessing you mean internet explorer? in which case any browser that isn’t built on the IE architechture is the best option, as IE collect virus’s like a stamp collector.
Ubuntu OS is a very good choice for the novice looking for a windows alternative and even on laptops is a painless installation.
But back to the browsers, mozilla firefox is the recommended choice, easy to use, intuitive, high virus/spyware protection, control your cookies and script activation on webpages as so on, is designed largely by linux/unix community programmers and is updated very quickly if a bug is found.
One LARGE reason that Firefox is ahead of the competition has nothing to do with Firefox – it’s that "the competition" refuses to come out with a browser that’s compliant with web standards. And some of us just don’t want to write special code to make one browser look good, when every other browser in the world works just fine with compliant code.
Any open source browser that can render pages properly, follows the web standards and receives updates (that is its still supported by the developers) is good for Ubuntu/debian or any other Linux OS.
Use whatever you like, the rest depends on you — kind of interface you like, addons etc.
My personal preference is Firefox, but when Google Chrome for Linux comes out I might switch.
Konqueror, Firefox, Epiphany, Opera.
I have used all 4 and still do.
Opera is the simplest to use and the faster one as well.