[Liverpool] Iceweasel

[oscillik]

Sorry, I have to agree with Simon on this with regards to any web browers'
speed running under a Linux based system.
I've used Firefox (3.0 and 3.5.2), Opera (v9 and 10), Midori (can't remember
version number) and Chromium. FIrefox is terribly slow compared to the
Windows version of Firefox. The only browser that seems to perform anywhere
near it's Windows counterpart is Chromium. And even then, its still not as
good.

And this is running under Ubuntu.

2009/9/5 Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com>

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> 2009/9/5 Simon Johnson <simon.johnson at gmail.com>
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>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>> Iceweasel was mentioned at the last meeting and there seems to be a
>>> continuing meme that the browser is somehow behind Firefox and was
>>> branched off from on an old version (I shall mention no names as to
>>> where this meme resides ;-)
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>> One of the things that really lets desktop Linux down is the browser
>> experience.
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> what? Opera, Chrome and Firefox are far more superior browsers to MSIE.
> superior in security, page rendering speeds, general usability, etc.
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>> It was so bad that I ditched my Debian install and went to Windows 7.
>>
> install debian, then apt-get install firefox. job done.
> firefox is the fastest growing browser in the world.
> is your bald statement suggesting that millions of lemmings are wrong (
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
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>> The browser is probably the single most important application in a modern
>> operating environment*. Yet Debian has just about the worst browser of any
>> modern OE.
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> use firefox then.
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>> The Windows version of Firefox is much more stable and requires fewer
>> megabytes of memory than the Linux version.
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> numbers, please!
> they r not that significant.
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>> It uses less memory, it's faster, and has many features that are included
>> as standard that would require extensions in Firefox.
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> what is wrong with using extensions?
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>> It's sad, because I enjoyed every *other* part of the Linux. But Linux
>> without a half decent browser is practically useless.
>>
> calling Opera and Firefox (and soon, Chrome) *even not a half decent
> browser* is at least stupid (no offence)
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> vladimir
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