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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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I think the best browser is firefox.
I hope that in the future are available minimal browser based on Webkit. I saw some projects on the network but are still in experimental phase. (I have tried Arora on Ubuntu Hardy). I would like a minimal browser with few dependencies but complete for X. |
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There is more to web browsing then just the rendering engine drhowarddrfine.
A web browser also provides the user interface and niceties of surfing the web. While the rendering engine takes care of the formating and layout of the content. Even if Gecko comes in shape usable to compile and surf with, I doubt using it and nothing else would be very much fun for most people ;-) PS Lynx forever.
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Am I the only fool who has been perfectly happy enough to live without need of flash for the last 10 years :-P
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Well, duh. I was just pointing it out.
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I have not used Flash/Java, They're a horrible disgrace to the Internet, as are sites that use Javascript excessively.
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It's, um, not very attractive to many, but if it helps take humans off the IE/Win horse, then it pays off, or such is the hope. There is of course no reason to not customize it to tailor one's own wishes, even on systems where "native skin" doesn't really mean anything e.g.: http://files.myopera.com/Moose/files/recent.png Ultimately, it's the core rendering engine that matters to many, and 9.2x is far behind 9.5 in that regard... |
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The nothing-on mode makes for truly fast browsing. |
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I've been using Opera since version 5 on BSD exculsively.
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First page at my ISP is Flash. So I either have to grap a Windows machine or I can't for support or billing info. Note that, tech supports goes no futher than asking you to run winipcfg or guide you clicking through the connection icon. But, with my subscription I am entitled to 1/2 day of "free" Intermet hands-on. I was happy. Also happy to get my Windows installation CDROM. Need it to correct the level of my terraxe wooden tiles.
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Why does every discussion even vaguely related to the WWW turn in to an anti flash/java discussion?
Anyway, here are the browser stats for DaemonForums ... seems firefox is by far the most popular ... Code:
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent Firefox No 442207 59.7 % Opera No 117979 15.9 % MS IE No 92265 12.4 % Safari No 24795 3.3 % Mozilla No 24712 3.3 % Konqueror No 19892 2.6 % BonEcho (Firefox 2.0 development) No 4850 0.6 % Unknown ? 2887 0.3 % OmniWeb No 2249 0.3 % Galeon No 1852 0.2 % Others 6388 0.8 % Code:
Camino No 1554 0.2 % Epiphany No 1290 0.1 % K-Meleon No 1093 0.1 % Links No 577 0 % Akregator (RSS Reader) No 191 0 % Plagger (RSS Reader) No 154 0 % Dillo No 149 0 % NewsGator (RSS Reader) No 140 0 % NetNewsWire (RSS Reader) No 92 0 % LibWWW No 92 0 % w3m No 87 0 % Liferea (RSS Reader) No 64 0 % Phoenix No 39 0 % RSSOwl (RSS Reader) No 34 0 % Firebird (Old Firefox) No 34 0 % Lynx No 28 0 % iCab No 26 0 % Acrobat Webcapture Yes 12 0 % MultiZilla No 12 0 % FeedDemon (RSS Reader) No 4 0 % NetPositive No 4 0 % Wizz RSS News Reader (RSS Reader) No 2 0 % Code:
Firefox 0.5.6 No 25 0 % Netscape 4.0 No 108 0 % Msie 2.0 No 12 0 %
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Yes, Off topic, sue us Carpetsmoker
People who send me Youtube links are instantly removed from my contact list... |
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Netflix online movies and now Hulu, along with the occasional YouTube stuff, forced me to put Win on my notebook; but I'm really hating it. But I like to watch movies sitting in a chair or in bed.
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Flash is also a practical necessity if one wishes to keep up with the current US presidential campaign. Much of the rhetoric, pointy elbows, slime and (yes!) interesting stuff comes out as flash videos. You can see the memes developing from the original incidents. I grant that not everyone is a junkie of political campaigns like I am, but if you are, you need Flash.
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Hello,
There is some good and interesting stuff on youtube (but you really need to search for it, most of it is just plain junk) - but yeah, I agree that flash is way too overrated.
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Hello,
Thanks for the stats!
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That said, I do read five papers a day and a couple of weeklies (like the Economist). I don't have much use for television and their terrible reporting (with a very few exceptions). |
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