Linux: Browser Wars

Anderson Silva writes "LinuxToday has an article doing a pretty basic comparison on some of the major linux browsers. Although a nice article, and with a fair result, I still think Opera is the best browser available for Linux." I prefer knoqueror, although recent builds seem to have random hangs on images.google.com.

CmdrTaco and I finally have something in common

[opeuga]

We both like 'knoquers'.

telnet

[Nastard]

Telnet in on port 80 and do a manual get.

Anything else is for wussies.

Spellchecker

[Ford Fulkerson]

I prefer knoqueror

I guess slashcode still doesn't include a spellchecker.

hello

[Anonymous Coward]

I strictly use only MS Internet Explorer becuase that's the only browser that doens't try to steal my flamberge.

Re:telnet

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd just noticed that myself. Bizarre.

% echo "GET / HTTP/1.0" | nc slashdot.org 80 | head | grep '^X-' | grep -v '^X-Powered'

X-Bender: Oh, so, just 'cause a robot wants to kill humans that makes him a radical?

X-Bender: OK, but I don't want anyone thinking we're robosexuals.

X-Fry: Nowadays people aren't interested in art that's not tattooed on fat guys.

X-Bender: Honey, I wouldn't talk about taste if I was wearing a lime green tank top.

X-Bender: Bite my shiny, metal ass!

Re:loading slashdot?...

[mmcshane]

For this test, I took a 370kb page from Slashdot page. I saved the page out, rather than use it on the site, since comments could be added on the site which would skew the results.

It's even worse than that - it took him that long to render pages off his own disk. Apparently he was rendering Shrek in the background.

images.google.com

[Skynet]

*CmdrTaco loads images.google.com*
*CmdrTaco types in "tux the penguin nude"*
*Penguin loads up in goatse position*
CmdrTaco: hmmmm....
*CmdrTaco types in "RMS nude"*
*Google locks...*
CmdrTaco: ^$%$#@!

Re:telnet

[Nastard]

Being a programmer does not make you intelligent.

The inverse is also true.

Your wish is granted

[Anonymous Coward]

Lynx [browser.org] is a good browser that works under Linux, and is more stable than IE in my experience.