Preferred Web Browser - Distrowatch Poll

[gold_finger]

Chromium has improved since 2 years ago.

You're probably right and I will give it another shot, especially since I liked Slimjet which is based on it.


Thanks to Jerry's pointing out of the poll I learned of another browser that I didn't know about before -- Vivaldi.  I installed and tested that and really like it.  For past couple of weeks I've switched to that as my go-to browser on two of my backup/testing machines that I recently installed new OS on.  Purged Firefox completely and just put Vivaldi, Slimjet, Qupzilla and Dillo on those machines.  Whenever I get around to upgrading the OS on my main systems I plan to use Vivaldi on them now as well.

[Carney]

In my opinion Chrome and Chromium should not be lumped together, especially in polls targeting Linux and other free software users, because some may specifically prefer Chromium over Chrome due to licensing and software freedom issues.  Others might prefer Chrome because it has more features (such as Netflix capability) and tighter integration to the Googleverse.  Regardless of the merits of either side of the case, the point here is that if you're polling people over which browser they use, you should make distinct browsers distinct.

[sweetloraine]

I am sad to see Opera with only 4%. Opera has always led the pack with new features and innovation. And if you have a question or comment they actually respond. Try that with Google.

All the browsers are memory suckers these days. (At least on the Windows side). I am running LL under VirtualBox right now. Virtualbox is costing 98meg. Nothing! One tab on Opera is 177 meg and one tab on Chrome is 149meg. And I like to keep about 5-15 or more tabs open in Opera and usually a few in Chrome. Adds up,but I don't sweat it with 16 Gig.

Firefox was a sweet,fast browser when they first started,but became to bloated and the addons screwed me one too many times. I would depend on a bunch of addons and then FF would upgrade from ver 2.0.2.05 to ver 2.0.2.06 because someone misspelled a word in the EULA and all of my addons wouldn't work! It could take days to never to get them to work again. Luckily Opera came on the scene and now FF is used occasionally.

BTW,thanks for the post. Interesting.

[Teddy]

Firefox has seen better days, I agree. 10 years ago when I started with FF 2.0, it was quick compared to IE 6 & IE 7 of the day. Now though, it's kinda lost its way. I used to use Pale Moon, which is a lighter, forked unbloated FF. That project is still around I believe, if anyone is interested. It's better than FF in a lot of ways. Hell, even SeaMonkey is less bloated than Firefox, and SeaMonkey has Email, IRC and more features built-in, kinda like Opera used to be in the Presto layout engine.

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[bfb]

I think it is "horses for courses". Firefox is fine for me on my most powerful machine, but on an old netbook which runs LL 2.8 easily it gobbles up memory to an extent that it freezes the system.
On that Slimjet and Midori are better for simple admin tasks.
I have Chromium on all of them.

[R.Timeos]

Since Firefox is the default for Linuxlite, I used that
--adding in the extensions I like

• Https everywhere
  
• Https nowhere
  
• webrtc (Disable, Control)
  
• Ublock oriogin
  
• Download youtube Videos as MP4
  --some others..

However, I have also used Vivaldi (I like their speeddial option and the colored TABS) and Chrome, and did use Midori and Slimjet for a short time..

[darknetmatrix]

always been a fan of firefox, since a few months also using PaleMoon

[bayoubooger]

used Firefox at first, after updating to 64 bit back to Chrome.

[bonnevie]

Heavily tweeked FF as my go-to browser, because it's so easy to set it to my liking.  Chromium for videos.

[paul1149]

I've used Slimjet for two years now, and consider it to be the best browser available. But it doesn't do .mp4's on Linux due to licensing, so I've now switched to Vivaldi, which isn't far behind SJ and is coming on strong.