Just ran across this image, couldn’t resist posting it.
(from http://www.greghughes.net/ )
When will the darn thing get better ? Right now, firefox is winning on linux solely due to lack of a better competitor. I swear to god that I would use IE7 in Windows! Hoping to see Safari on Linux soon!
I agree. I find firefox to be really slow and still clunky looking. I’m a real die-hard free-software guy, but I am spoiled by using opera -even thoug I don’t have KDE or Qt on my box -I use the statically compiled version.
To me the classiest looking and functioning gecko-based browser was galeon. If only the guy had gotten rid of the gnome-libs dependency and just used GTK. I think development finally stopped completey about a year ago.
I use dillo for viewing webpages locally -if it would render most pages better I would use it all the time. I’ve done some work on other small browsers like skipstone and cheetah, but my coding skills are not good enough to get anywhere near to doing what I’d like to see. And, even if they were, maintaing a browser is a big job that needs at least a few really good coders.
I’m pretty sick of all the moz-based stuff as it is a nightmare to configure and compile the way you want -much less hacking it. Still, I did a couple of small hacks to the mozilla GTK embedded borwser to create a small low-featured browser with very good rendering and also patched the minimo browser to run under GTK-1.2. Either one of these will load in about 3 seconds as compared to 9-12 seconds for moz/monkey/fox. Dillo starts and loads a page in one-half of a second on the same box…