[Poll] What is your favorite Web Browser?

[sunrat]

I now have six themes to choose from, but only two toolbars, no statusbar, wtf?

Statusbar is one of the first things I put back in a new install.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... us-4-evar/

[edbarx]

But, fairy tales are on a second floor

You are right, it is now a fairytale. However, there were times, two or three years ago, when this was reality.

[chrissywissy]

I also occasionally use Firefox, but it sometimes seems slower and isn't available to sync on all my devices - iOS, BB10 etc

[day]

But, fairy tales are on a second floor

You are right, it is now a fairytale. However, there were times, two or three years ago, when this was reality.

Pale Moon. It is a forked firefox 25.0, with updates + more.

[stevepusser]

I had never heard of Maxthon, though it seems they have 32 and 64-bit deb packages, but certainly won't test it after this revelation.

It's probably no worse than a Microsoft browser, though.

I'm mostly using the Slimjet variant of Chromium, because of its default included goodies, but Firefox comes in a close second.

[cpoakes]

I prefer chromium as devs seem to take Linux seriously...

Debatable as they don't take Debian Stable seriously. In wheezy, chromium hit end-of-life/no security support in January 2015 months before jessie went stable. You either had to move from stable (wheezy) to testing (jessie) before it was ready; download and use Google's version of Chrome; or move to another browser.

With wheezy at EOL April 2016, those of us who 1) only use stable, and 2) use the year overlap between stable and oldstable to transition systems were hung out to dry.

So Firefox it is.

[KBD47]

I prefer chromium as devs seem to take Linux seriously...

Debatable as they don't take Debian Stable seriously. In wheezy, chromium hit end-of-life/no security support in January 2015 months before jessie went stable. You either had to move from stable (wheezy) to testing (jessie) before it was ready; download and use Google's version of Chrome; or move to another browser.

With wheezy at EOL April 2016, those of us who 1) only use stable, and 2) use the year overlap between stable and oldstable to transition systems were hung out to dry.

So Firefox it is.

That is useful info. And it makes a strong case for staying with Firefox if one uses Stable.

[Innovate]

Slimjet
I've throw away download manager softwares away because of turbocharged download manager is damn fast enough.

[Rildebai]

I prefer chromium as devs seem to take Linux seriously...

Debatable as they don't take Debian Stable seriously. In wheezy, chromium hit end-of-life/no security support in January 2015 months before jessie went stable. You either had to move from stable (wheezy) to testing (jessie) before it was ready; download and use Google's version of Chrome; or move to another browser.

With wheezy at EOL April 2016, those of us who 1) only use stable, and 2) use the year overlap between stable and oldstable to transition systems were hung out to dry.

So Firefox it is.

Hi cpoakes.

I hope the same thing doesn't happen with Jessie.

[stevepusser]

Here's a new minimalist browser called "Min":

The Min browser, short for ‘minimal’, is a streamlined web browser built on the Electron framework (no groaning at the back). Written entirely with CSS and JavaScript, the app is fully open-source.

It describes itself as “a smarter, faster web browser”.

I tried their 64-bit deb, and it installs and run in Jessie, and even played HTML5 Youtube video.

[JLloyd13]

Here's a new minimalist browser called "Min":

The Min browser, short for ‘minimal’, is a streamlined web browser built on the Electron framework (no groaning at the back). Written entirely with CSS and JavaScript, the app is fully open-source.

It describes itself as “a smarter, faster web browser”.

I tried their 64-bit deb, and it installs and run in Jessie, and even played HTML5 Youtube video.

I saw that on omgubuntu. Very interesting... it's electron/chromium based, should be fast...

Trying it now. Definitely not as full featured but very fast and much lighter than Chrome or Firefox.

[swirler]

My favourite would be a browser that uses system resources efficiently, doesn't interfere with what I do, works on older hardware, is responsive, is not designed like a magnet for advertisements, and finally and is intelligently designed to render pages legibly when script is disabled.

That, every group of developers worth something could do: the real trick is to instead put together a browser that is (ever increasingly) nothing like that and then force-feed it to end users as something that "adds value" , "promotes personalized content" , "enhances your browsing experience" and so on - whatever that may mean.
Usually, which I'm sure is no surprise to you, that is corporate lingo for "spying on you" - relentlessly.

The usual excuse would be that the "web is changing", which is kinda backwards as they are indeed trying to change it into a global spying/advertisement operation with an eye on the so called "internet of things", which I'm not sure a browser should have anything to do with.

[Bulkley]

Here's a new minimalist browser called "Min":

The Min browser, short for ‘minimal’, is a streamlined web browser built on the Electron framework (no groaning at the back). Written entirely with CSS and JavaScript, the app is fully open-source.

It describes itself as “a smarter, faster web browser”.

I tried their 64-bit deb, and it installs and run in Jessie, and even played HTML5 Youtube video.

I'm typing from Min now. It is fast but could sure use some basic features such as the ability to set minimum font size. Maybe it has it but I haven't found it yet. When I logged in to Debian User Forums Min warned me that this site might steal my password. That could get rather boring. Anyway, it is fun to play with and easier to use than some other basic browsers. Thanks for posting about it.

[Nili]

Pale Moon

[JLloyd13]

Here's a new minimalist browser called "Min":

The Min browser, short for ‘minimal’, is a streamlined web browser built on the Electron framework (no groaning at the back). Written entirely with CSS and JavaScript, the app is fully open-source.

It describes itself as “a smarter, faster web browser”.

I tried their 64-bit deb, and it installs and run in Jessie, and even played HTML5 Youtube video.

I'm typing from Min now. It is fast but could sure use some basic features such as the ability to set minimum font size. Maybe it has it but I haven't found it yet. When I logged in to Debian User Forums Min warned me that this site might steal my password. That could get rather boring. Anyway, it is fun to play with and easier to use than some other basic browsers. Thanks for posting about it.

I'm currently typing from Min now as well. I have two biggest gripes: can't hide the menu bar (I've opened an issue on the github page for that, had some people agree with me, but no word from the dev yet- I get the feeling the dev is primarily concerned with MacOS) and the open in new tab doesn't open the new tab in the background like in chrome or firefox, but moves you to the new tab. Very annoying. It is very fast though, I haven't done any measurements so it's entirely subjective but I find it faster than both chrome/(ium) and firefox.

Also, well I'm using min at the current moment I've recently just switched from chromium (which I voted for in the poll) to firefox. It's definitely much slower to start up, which chromium ready to get in like 1-2 seconds and firefox taking almost 10 full seconds to fully load (to be fair, I have a ton of addons, but mostly the same as chrome). This is very annoying as I have an SSD and was used to chromium and kind of expect things to open immediately now. BUT, once it's opened, it's just as fast. The actual reason I've switched though it very noticeably uses less battery life than chrome, and it easily increased my battery from 4-5 hours to more like 5-6. That alone makes it worth to switch, I just need to remember not to actually close firefox and just minmize it or someday I'm going to throw the computer out the window waiting. Debian itself boots almost as fast as firefox.

[GarryRicketson]

My favorite was not listed
Lynx, also maybe the oldest,

[JLloyd13]

My favorite was not listed
Lynx, also maybe the oldest,

If we're talking text-based I'd vote for elinks

[GarryRicketson]

Thanks, I am going to try it and see, I have never tried that one.

[JLloyd13]

Thanks, I am going to try it and see, I have never tried that one.

It's a lynx fork I believe, so pretty similar, but I've had problems with text formatting on lynx, never on elinks.

[tomazzi]

Voted nothing.

I've recently discovered that Firefox ESR v45 (wheezy), which was adopted by Debian is simply a spyware - not much different from Chrome.
Geo-location works even if You will disable it.
Lots of hidden services, which are causing relatively high CPU usage and memory consumption.

Possible solution (other than just removing the Firefox package):

1. Enter the about:config
2. search for "https"
3. replace all the links with spaces (You can exclude some addresses related to health reporting, updates, phishing addresses reporting, etc)

After I've removed all that crap, the memory usage dropped from 300MB to 195MB (single page opened - Debian Forums), and the CPU load have dropped from around 7-10% to 1-2%. Now the Firefox starts in 0.x seconds (it needed about 3-5 seconds with the default configuration)
All the standard tweaks applied.

Regards.

edit:
If You're using the NoScript add-on (which is really great), search for "wanIpCheckURL" and replace it with a space...