what browser to use, if not firefox?
January 1st, 2009
What if I don't need firebug, and I just need a browser, and I am in linux.
- Flock is a good option: so you still can have firebug or other web development tools. But it's still Firefox.
- Prism - this is really not a browser, but it's really good as I am using its webapps like Gmail, Google Reader heavily, and I almost have no complaints except one: by default, Gmail doesn't support navigation key (like Alt + "<-" as back). But I can change that through the .prism/yourkey.default/webapps/google.reader@developer.mozilla.org/webapp.ini file, by setting navigation as yes. And probably I can define a lot of webapps in prism, so it could be considered as browser. Maybe I will test it out later. However, you sort of lose the 'Tab' ability, which goes back to the multi-window era.
- midori - as I am searching webkit related solution, this offers a clickable installation solution in ubuntu. Seems not bad if I just want to browse, though feel like some javascript don't work properly (might be a problem for webkit in general). After I have more experience with it, I can report back.
- Google Chrome - still out of reach for linux.
Then really, why not firefox, it's frequently crashing for me now. I guess because some of the data (sqlite) file for my firefox is too large now, (e.g., urlclassifier3.sqlite is 51M). And I am afraid if I keep use Flock, it will go to that size as well, then the same problem. Hopefully there will be some nice solution for this, or Google Chrome will be around.
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