[Liverpool] What's your browser?

[Richard Smedley]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 22:18 +0000, David Watson wrote:
> This week I switched back to Epiphany after a couple of years of Firefox
> and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I
> had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had
> stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would
> instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time
> it started.

If you use Galeon - which was default in GNOME before epiphany came
along - restarting gives you the option of restoring your session,
or making a bookmark of all the sites open the previous
(interrupted) session.

> It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with
> the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I
> switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know
> about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each
> bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a
> bookmark hierarchy is built automatically.

If you use more than one machine, you're still better off with
something like del.icio.us

> So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?

To read a site I've been sent a link to I use either links2
or w3m on my main machines, lynx on others. To read a page
on my filesystem I usually let MC open links.

For graphical browsing I usually have Icewesael open for
Firebug, and Galeon on a few tabs waiting to be read, due
to the session persistence feature mentioned earlier.

If I don't have a graphical browser open, and need one
quickly, I'll use Dillo - which has recently added tabs 
at last.

If I'm using KDE, I'll have Konqueror open - and very good
it is too :-)   (PWM is my default desktop, but I've started
rotating through different ones for variety in screenshots, 
as I'm doing a couple of HotPicks columns for LXF).

I've recently installed Netsurf and Midori, but haven't 
found a reason to use them in anger.

> (And don't mention IE, unless you want to upset Vladimir)

On my Debian desktop(s) I have IE6, 5.5, and 5.0, through
IEs4linux [1] - in order to check workarounds for MS's
buggy CSS implementation :-/

Cheers,

 - Richard

[1] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page