Browser Wars Part II

[robinturner]

Well, I now have four browsers on my system: Netscape, Opera, Konqueror and Lynx, and am finally closer to reaching a decision.
Lynx - I haven't used this for ages, but if you just want text and no irritating graphics, lynx goes like greased lightning.
Opera - its claim to be the fastest browser on the web is not true, since lynx is faster. However, that's not really fair competition. Opera does seem to be the fastest graphic browser. While this is a sizable advantage, and for many people a deciding factor, it doesn't have an awful lot else to put it ahead of the competition.
Netscape - Lots of features and plugins which I never use. If I didn't already have an email client and an HTML editor, I might consider it, but as it is, I only keep it because it's the only browser that can connect to my bank (Opera, ironically, is too secure, and rejects my bank's malformed certificate!).
Konqueror - doesn't work well with some IE/Netscape-optimised sites (may they rot in Hell) and not quite as fast as Opera, but a good all-round browser with a good feature/bloat ratio. It reads postscript and PDF files and is also my file manager, so the end result is ...

Konqueror wins the browser wars. Congratulations to the good people at KDE.

Comments

[arya.livejournal.com]

I use WellsFargo, and Konqueror has no problems connecting to the site. I set my prefs to identify as Netscape and it works like a charm.

[solri.livejournal.com]

I'm using an old version of Konqueror, which doesn't ahve that option. When I can get hold of the CDs I2ll update to Mandrake 8.2 and then download KDE 3.

[rodneyorpheus.livejournal.com]

I'm using Galeon right now, since I recently defected to the other side and started using Gnome after years on KDE. I actually prefer Galeon. Konqueror does weird shit with my fonts. My fave is still Opera, but that doesn't seem to want to play nice with my Yellow Dog 2.2 installation....

Gnome 1.4 is really quite fabulous...

[solri.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough I went the other way. With my first Linux installation (RedHat 6.0, or maybe it was even 5.2, I don't remember) I had GNOME with Enlightenment (a very sexy Window Manager) but changed to KDE largely because I installed it at work to give my Windows-addicted colleagues something that looked familiar, then decided I liked it. When I get round to upgrading to Mandrake 8.2, I'll install both and see what gives.

[rodneyorpheus.livejournal.com]

Yeah KDE is certainly more like classic Win95 crap, but Gnome has now leapfrogged ahead, both graphically and in user-friendliness IMHO. Gnome 2.0 is in beta as well, should be even more interesting when that comes out.

And Gnome comes with Evolution, which is one of the most useful apps ever...

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

Galeon is so good at silencing the pop-up ads