Thread: What Web Browser do you use and why?

I wonder if chromium will ever be an actual competitor against FF, Chrome, and Opera.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Use wget

Wget isn't really a browser. He should get links or lynx.

Originally Posted by Xedan

I wonder if chromium will ever be an actual competitor against FF, Chrome, and Opera.

I use chromium

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

I use chromium

Is it as glitchy as people say it is?

It works pretty well. I went to checkout acid3 with it earlier and it didn't have javascript in that one window for some reason. I just went and checked it out again and it scored 100/100 as promised. Occasionally flash will crash but on the whole, it's good enough for my purposes.

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

It works pretty well. I went to checkout acid3 with it earlier and it didn't have javascript in that one window for some reason. I just went and checked it out again and it scored 100/100 as promised. Occasionally flash will crash but on the whole, it's good enough for my purposes.

what about style? That's a big point with me. Is it as sleek as chrome?

it's essentially indistinguishable from chrome aside from the default style.

I was checking out a site to download Chromium from, but my computer wasn't on the list of compatible systems.

try

Code:

you@your-machine:/~$ sudo apt-get install chromium

. This (or a variant involving pacman instead of apt-get) should work on all real operating systems.

Firefox. Cause Internet Explorer sucks on so many different levels and Chrome seems to make my laptop cook itself.

On Linux, I use Firefox too, and Konquer is the Linux version of IE.

I used Epiphany on Linux for a bit because it was the fastest browser I've ever used (GC, IE, Safari, and FF all being taken into account), but I went back to FF because of the addons I've become so reliant on. That's why I use it: addons, RSS feeds in my bookmarks toolbar, and overall familiarity.

Google Chrome... Everything else in comparison feels like slugs on my computer...

I hated IE for a while since it just sucked so bad, but lately they've been uping there game.. But it still can't beat Chrome...

My previous browser was Mozilla Firefox.. It was awesome at the time, but Chrome came out.. So that went.. Plus Chrome looks awesome aswell, so...

I use Firefox with the Vimperator extension so I don't have to reach for a mouse. It does more for productivity than pretty much anything besides a tiling window manager. I'll probably use Chromium with the Vrome extension when the latter matures a bit. It doesn't feel very responsive to keypresses right now.

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

This (or a variant involving pacman instead of apt-get) should work on all real operating systems.

It's refreshing to see that Arch Linux is gaining popularity.

Chrome/Chromium all the way these days. Whether I'm using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx or Windows Vista (ugh, only for the necessities like Photoshop), Chrome is my main browser. With the advent of extensions and a few carefully selected bookmarklets (I freakin' love Quix, all hail Yoast!), Chrome does everything I need it to, and faster than Firefox at that. I still use Firefox for FireFTP, Web Developer Toolbar (the Chrome version is not nearly as good, not sure why) and of course, FireBug, but for anything outside of web development, Chrome wins.

Originally Posted by Xedan

I wonder if chromium will ever be an actual competitor against FF, Chrome, and Opera.

Chromium is like a developers version of chrome.. The only difference between it is that in chromium they are testing things that might be buggy or haven't been definitively chosen to go into the stable version of Chrome...

It goes like this:
Chromium (Experimental) ---> Google Chrome Dev (Buggy and testing) ---> Google Chrome Beta (More stable then dev, but still not perfect) ---> Google Chrome Stable (For the general public who don't care about having the latest stuff, plus it's completely polished)

In other words, quite alot of the stuff in Chromium end up in Google Chrome.. It's an open source project that result in the stable releases of Chrome.. I guess it is a different browser, but I doubt Google would let it actually compete with other browsers.. Since it's buggy and experimental..