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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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I just installed Midori 0.1.0 and Dillo 2.0 - I will be testing them between now and the first of the year.
Initial thoughts: Dillo loads blazingly fast - within the blink of an eye. Midori takes longer to load - about half a second. Firefox takes anywhere from 1-4 seconds to load (longer on loading the first time after bootup) - just for comparison. Dillo still has no support for JavaScript or HTTPS - big drawbacks for usage. It also doesn't render some pages correctly (i.e., FreeBSD and NetBSD homepages) - I think CSS still isn't fully implemented - and many others are rendered sub-optimally (i.e., Google). Images don't always display (even when IMG ON is selected). Midori renders pages nicely - it appears to support both JavaScript and HTTPS. Images appear as they should. One bad thing about Midori's UI - no HOME button. Midori is half the size of Dillo (~260K vs. ~540K) - but Midori relies on libraries that take up more space (at least on Slackware, where I'm testing them). I will be interested in comparing memory usage between the two.
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That's an unfair comparison.. as Oko has mentioned, Midori uses Webkit for rendering.
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btw, Webkit is far more than just a "very promising web-engine". It's probably the most advanced engine on the planet right now with neck-to-neck pacing with Opera for the lead. It has bleeding edge standards compliance and leads the way in new advancements. It's used by Safari and Chrome. Using Webkit is a very good thing.
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I really wish that Dillo would provide JavaScript/SSL/CSS to make it more usable. One thing I need such a capable browser for is signing into my Universities wireless network - which requires a login (Cisco something) to access the internet (as opposed to their intranet). After that, I can go back to any browser or other internet program for use.
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dillo now has tabs. (version 0.- now /dillo2/ ) One news site
works rather well with it. (If you right click, you can open a tab in the background. Seamonkey, however, opens it in the foreground. I prefer the former) |
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With Firefox and Chrome coming out with javascript engines up to 40x faster, and other web methods relying heavily on javascript, not having js support could be a serious blow for those browsers. A lot of functionality is being transfered to the browser and I'm seeing more of that talked about in the web dev world right now.
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You can make seamonkey open tabs in the background by default.
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firefox
1. I realy need some of the add-ons (such as all-in sidebar, colourfulTabs, ...) 2. It do what I need. 3. I've opened about 150 page concurrently, sometime ago, without any problem ! ....
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Hey, I found out that links (links-2 as found in NetBSD's pkgsrc) comes with javascript and ssl support!!! Why I didn't know that before?
O happy days! Now I don't need to install Firefox in order to access the wireless at the University.
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Has JS support in links improved much?
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It's not perfect by a long shot. Rudimentary may be an apt term to describe it. And it doesn't seem to play nice when coupled with mysql or php. But still, what support there is does what I currently absolutely need it to do.
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