Alternatives web browser list

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-10-08 08:33pm

Please sticky- includes browsers not available on windows
All platforms means *NIX, MacOS, and Windows for conveniance.

Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird- all platforms - www.mozilla.org

K-Meleon- Mozilla(Gecko) based browser, behaves like IE, try if you want to dump IE, but hate NutScrape - Windows only - kmeleon.sf.net

Opera- From what I've heard, good, but can't stand 2 minute of using it with banner ads on a small monitor - all platforms - www.opera.com

Galeon- Similar to K-Meleon, requires GNOME libraries and Mozilla, but for *NIX- http://galeon.sourceforge.net/

Konqueror- *NIX and variants only, requires KDE libraries - www.kde.org
Safari- Konqueror(KHTML) based browser- MacOS(X?) only - www.apple.com

Amaya- All platforms, does editing, however substandard CSS, probably bad scripting, and looks crappy - http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html

Elinks- Don't know what other platforms available on other than *NIX- Text mode browser, better than lynx -http://elinks.or.cz/

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-08 11:42pm

I like Konqueror for its speed and small size. However, certain websites make it choke while Mozilla works perfectly, so it's nice to have both Konqueror and Mozilla installed.

Mind you, anyone who develops for the web has to keep a copy of an old Netscape 4.X install around too, just so he can see how it will look on that fucking piece of shit.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-09 09:15am

Grr. NS4 is evil.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-10-09 12:33pm

Yes, Safari is Mac OS X-only. It requires 10.2 or later.

OmniWeb for Mac OS X - www.omnigroup.com/omniweb
NOTE: This is a nagware browser.

OmniWeb uses Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore for its rendering engine, so basically it's another KHTML browser. This would be my browser of choice, but it doesn't have tabs ... yet. 5.0 promises to be the be-all and end-all of browsing experience.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-10-09 03:06pm

Durandal wrote:Yes, Safari is Mac OS X-only. It requires 10.2 or later.

OmniWeb for Mac OS X - www.omnigroup.com/omniweb
NOTE: This is a nagware browser.

OmniWeb uses Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore for its rendering engine, so basically it's another KHTML browser. This would be my browser of choice, but it doesn't have tabs ... yet. 5.0 promises to be the be-all and end-all of browsing experience.

Then what's the point? Might as well get Safari if it uses KHTML.

What about chimera (something like k-meleon for MacOSX?)?

Note- I despise KHTML- it blows at progressive rendering on slow dialup, and chokes on complicated pages, and not only that, some advanced JavaScript functions behave in a nonstandard way. However, for simple locally installed HTML documentation, it's nice, since Firebird takes about 20 seconds to load.

NS4 is dead. Screw it. I haven't seen an NS4 installation in a long time, except on a school computer with a monitor with 640x480 res. Most computers have IE installed anyway.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-09 04:43pm

Pu-239 wrote:NS4 is dead. Screw it. I haven't seen an NS4 installation in a long time, except on a school computer with a monitor with 640x480 res. Most computers have IE installed anyway.

You'd be amazed how many corporations still use NS4 on the desktop.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-10-10 10:12pm

Sticky or no?

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-10-12 06:09am

I like Safari, but it's annoying how some website's don't display correctly on it. Overall, I prefer Firebird over pratically anything else - mininalist enough, and has tabs.