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What Web Browser do Linux users use?



Mark J Dulcey wrote:
> I use Firefox (primary) and Chrome (secondary, mostly when I need two 
> browsers logged into the same site as different users).

Likewise. (I often end up using Chrome or Epiphany when I run across
sites with buggy cookie handling code. Using Chrome provides a clean
slate without clearing my FF cookies.)

Chrome is nice, but I prefer the FF UI. I'd probably learn to live with
Chrome, if the performance difference was really noticeable (I don't
find that it is), and they interoperated with FF's bookmark manager (you
can drag-and-drop bookmarks from FF to Chrome, but not Chrome to FF; I
have 10+ years of organized bookmarks that I don't want to import into
Chrome (I'm not ready to commit to it) or export to Xmarks.)

Chrome is steadily increasing its stable of extensions, but what's
available is still tiny compared to FF. As others have mentioned, I've
come to rely on extension for critical bits of functionality. It helps a
bit that Chrome can run Greasemonkey scripts natively.

At the moment, Flash seems to work better on Chrome, so I tend to use it
when I run across some Flash video. But this can change with every
browser or OS update.

 -Tom

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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
"Enterprise solutions through open source."
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