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Other BSD and UNIX/UNIX-like Any other flavour of BSD or UNIX that does not have a section of its own. |
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Firefox | 36 | 50.00% | |
Mozilla | 0 | 0% | |
SeaMonkey | 2 | 2.78% | |
Netscape | 0 | 0% | |
Opera | 20 | 27.78% | |
Safari | 0 | 0% | |
Internet Explorer | 0 | 0% | |
Amaya | 0 | 0% | |
Lynx | 3 | 4.17% | |
Links | 0 | 0% | |
Elinks | 1 | 1.39% | |
Dillo | 0 | 0% | |
w3m | 3 | 4.17% | |
Konqueror | 2 | 2.78% | |
Galeon | 1 | 1.39% | |
Epiphany | 1 | 1.39% | |
Flock | 1 | 1.39% | |
Camino | 0 | 0% | |
Skipstone | 0 | 0% | |
Other | 2 | 2.78% | |
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Here are some myths that is more up to date and by someone respected in the industry:
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This one is not the test I saw but I can't find the ArsTechnica one with the best graphs. This one shows 4x over IE8. John Reisig has some good graphs. As do others if you google for browser javascript.
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Also, I don't believe it's been worked on in some time... compat_freebsd(8) still mentions FreeBSD 5.0.. |
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Me thinks it doesn't really matter whether your Firefox is better than my Opera. What matters is that we have good browser alternatives.
If everyone were to use IE then that would give MS the freedom to churn out mediocre, bug-ridden, non-standard/non-compatible, insecure by default crap ... and in this MS utopia we would all be running the same browser along with the same spyware/worms/viruses. |
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As far as Opera goes, it was Firefox that was brought up but Opera is an excellent browser; as is Safari and Chrome. I mostly use Firefox because of its developer tools but also some other add-ons I like. Last edited by drhowarddrfine; 22nd October 2008 at 11:32 PM. |
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To each their own, be it telnet or FooBar6000
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Another thing on the seamonkey front - xkcd's long tooltips. Last I checked, firefox still cuts them off, seamonkey doesn't.
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They work fine in FF for me.
Interesting what he's doing. He's going through the whole XHTML thing, with xml stylesheets, declarations and so on, yet serves it as html which negates everything he's done and he uses the wrong doctype. |
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Linux compatibility layer might have very soon the similar faith. As more and more software is ported to OpenBSD and as the Linux is moving completely towards 2.6 kernel and ALSA there is little interest among developers to catch up with those changes. Linux compatibility layer was important because of Flash for instance but as Flash 9 for Linux requires ALSA there is no real interest in keeping compatibility alive. Linux-Opera 9.6 is ported thanks to the efforts of Nikolay but I am not sure how long will that last. The major kernel work will be needed to make Linux binaries compiled on 2.6 kernel run on OpenBSD. As you saw from couple comments most OpenBSD users share my sentiment when it comes to turning on existing Linux compatibility layer (It is off by default and that how it should stay:-) ) Personally, I would really like to see Midori stable and Dillo2 taking off. Dillo2 with working OpenSSL and possibly JS engine would be an ideal browser for people who use OpenBSD on their desktops. Last edited by Oko; 23rd October 2008 at 03:04 AM. |
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It is trivial to detect the browser capabilities and use text/html or application/xml+xhtml appropriately. `IE compatibility' and text/html is often used as an excuse to hide the fact that the document is not 100% valid XHTML ..
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The modern browsers don't have any problem parsing XHTML if it is written correctly. |
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I just want to let people know that I have been using the latest Midori 1.0 (it is still in alpha stage) for the past week or so on the OpenBSD 4.4 current (it is actually in the snapshot of the packages). I personally have not have any troubles although some people had troubles with starting OpenSSL. IMHO we might be just a months away from the release of another major stable browser. Hopefully this would be a motivation for Opera to come out finally open source.
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There also arora browser (something like Midori but QT4 based): http://code.google.com/p/arora/
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I played around with Vimperator a bit today, it's nice, too bad the crappy firefox backend shows so often through the neat Vi(m) UI.
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Does that work like a Firefox plugin - or is it a separate application?
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It's a firefox extension.
Although in this case `extension' is something of a understatement ... More like a firefox UI makeover.
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GTK, Qt, and WxWidgets are what? Like the most popular gui toolkits that are _not_ platform specific! I don't count AWT/Swing/SWT since I rarely see these used outside Java; things like the common Windows and OSX gear are more popular, but less portable ^_^. Personally, I don't care whether a program is GTK or Qt based, unless it sucks in a lot of Gnome-related or KDE libraries. What render the web browser uses, and how well the java script engine (if any!) deals with common surfing -> is important ;-)
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Firefox's javascript engine, coming out in the soon to be released version 3.1, will be up to 40x faster than IE8's engine and the fastest of all. Google's Chrome is only slightly behind that.
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