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1 Firefox
2 Chromium (BBC web site videos (pepperflash) as I don't like having flash installed)

3. QtWeb - stand alone 12MB

ruffwoof wrote:3. QtWeb - stand alone 12MB

omg! a .zip, that runs by itslef (in other words, a portable browser for linux)!
is it safe?

debiman wrote:

ruffwoof wrote:3. QtWeb - stand alone 12MB

omg! a .zip, that runs by itslef (in other words, a portable browser for linux)!
is it safe?

Ummmm---you mean like Firefox or Pale Moon can come in an archive file and can be run portably from the extracted folder? Or the "hot" new Electron or Appimage browser ones (see Min)?

QtWeb is as safe as any browser that hasn't had any security fixes in at least a couple years.

Qtweb 3.8.5 I've in my collection since XP-W10 till move to Linux.
It's nothing new for me.
I was amazed with built-in torrent downloader though

Rildebai wrote:Hi.

What is your favorite web browser.

Mine is Firefox.

I also use Firefox, more precisely I use Ice dragon from Comodo https://icedragon.comodo.com

rickman wrote:

Rildebai wrote:Hi.

What is your favorite web browser.

Mine is Firefox.

I also use Firefox, more precisely I use Ice dragon from Comodo https://icedragon.comodo.com

I wouldn't touch anything from Comodo with a ten-foot pole: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/03/chromo ... ty-issues/

stevepusser wrote:

rickman wrote:

Rildebai wrote:Hi.

What is your favorite web browser.

Mine is Firefox.

I also use Firefox, more precisely I use Ice dragon from Comodo https://icedragon.comodo.com

I wouldn't touch anything from Comodo with a ten-foot pole: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/03/chromo ... ty-issues/

They don't make any deb package anyway.

In other hand Brave seems to get a more good feedbacks & attention
even though it's just some another chromium based browser.

My favourite is Seamonkey. It is a complete Internet Suite with browser, email-client, address book etc.

For everyday regular use,
I prefer performance and funcionallity to security..> Im using for so long Chromium 35 (since Jessie), now im with Stretch and still using it, it give much gains over the rest new chromium versions derivades. its really pretty fast and smooth..

To install Old versions of chrome i got it with this trick:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=129904


For virtual bank or sensible operations,
im using Firefox ESR

I like Mothra, 9front's browser.

http://man2.aiju.de/1/mothra

No problems with FlashPlayer on that

EDIT: and edbrowse!

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/edbrowse

I can't believe I forgot about that...

I recall that RMS said in an interview that he uses wget to browse the net...

A bit of a dilemma between w3m and elinks. w3m integrates nicely with Vim, though I remember the elinks hotkeys better. Oh well...

Since the poll lists neither, I chose Firefox/Iceweasel. Yay!

I've been trying Qupzilla lately, since a couple of months version 2.0.2 is in Sid and it uses QtWebEngine instead of WebKit.

sjukfan wrote:I've been trying Qupzilla lately, since a couple of months version 2.0.2 is in Sid and it uses QtWebEngine instead of WebKit.

what is this qtwebengine? is it any good a) for the web of today and b) security-wise?
i heard so much bad about webkit on debian...

debiloo wrote:My favourite browser is Opera and I am shocked that only 2% of people here are into this browser. Why don't you like this?

One reason why people won't like Opera is because it's proprietary.

debiman wrote:

sjukfan wrote:what is this qtwebengine? is it any good a) for the web of today and b) security-wise?
i heard so much bad about webkit on debian...

Qt WebEngine is "based on the Chromium Project". I assume they just use Blink for Qt stuff and widgets. Should hopefully be a bit more secure than webkit.

I dont like any of the browsers - its the extensions that make them usable.

I disliked paleMoon least for a while till it ran into extension problems.

Now my least disliked is Tor-Browser. it can simpley access more sites.

Firefox always runs in the money, and chrome dead last in this race...

Isn't Tor Browser only for browsing onion network?

pawRoot wrote:Isn't Tor Browser only for browsing onion network?

Not at all.

Tor-Browser is basically a modded Firefox, that will call up any normal website PLUS those with TOR url's. A site with a Tor onion url can be accessed even when its DNS is being heavily blocked.

Its only downside is that it is *slower*. This doesnt apply to P2P though, as while the browser itself is proxied, the rest of the system is not, unless it is fully configured to use the Tor proxy. In short the browser itself will show up as originating from random countries, but other apps, such as bittorrent will display your actual IP address. Ideally to avoid such problems one would use a VPN with it. The VPN itself uses normal DNS, so the addition of the Tor browser with it gives additional access, as well as added security.

Google wont work with Tor, but duckduckgo works just fine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2 ... iki_is_up/

but most websites won't work in Tor browser anyway unless you enable Javascript, Tor Browser isn't really alternative to normal browser imo