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riddlebox · Post by **riddlebox** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:16 pm

I have had issues with firefox lately mostly the fact that all of a sudden I cannot log into my banks website in linux using firefox, but from firefox in windows I can! I tried epiphany and galeon as well, none work, but I installed opera and boom it works!

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:00 am

I have semi-hated Firefox for a while now. My opinion of Firefox is that it's a slow and unstable browser. It doesn't surprise me though, Mozilla don't give a sh!t about us Linux users, one example: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefo ... rm_Support.
Also, look at the memory requirements for Firefox on Linux and compare it to Firefox on Windows: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefo ... quirements.

I mostly use Konqueror these days, and been VERY happy with it.

I know that GNOME is working towards using WebKit as the HTML rendering engine for Epiphany, maybe they too hate Gecko!

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:03 am

I honestly rarely have issues with Firefox, and I use it way more than any other browser. It's faster than Konqueror, renders better, is more intuitive, and supports a ton of great extensions.

Opera is fairly nice. It's speedy, but the user interface is retarded in my opinion.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:14 am

Wally Balljacker wrote:It's faster than Konqueror, renders better, is more intuitive, and supports a ton of great extensions.

Might have something to do with the fact that you're running it under GNOME, because this is far from what I experience. Say I have 10 tabs open, which I do quite often, then it takes almost a second to switch between them, and it takes like three to five seconds to start up. With Konqueror, even with 25 tabs, when I change tab, it snaps over like instantly. Also, even when I start it for the first time, it rarely takes more than a second to start. I once ran it under Fluxbox, and it only took two seconds to start.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:40 pm

I don't believe I have ever had 25 tabs open...

I use Konq for 99% of my browsing, and FF for the other 1% on linux. I use FF for 99% of my browsing and IE for the other 1% on windows. I have never cared much for Opera - back when I would have considered it, I preferred Mozilla.