Difference between revisions of "Web Browsers for Linux"

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This is NOT an exhaustive list. Here are some of the more common web browsers or particularly useful web browsers available to Linux users.

Chrome

Google Chrome, part of the vast Google Monopoly and forces you do things the Google way. Chrome version for Linux is the same as Windows version with same support of extensions. The Google sync feature synchronizes all your browser’s data as you sign into the browser. You can select what data to sync when you sign into your browser.

Chrome consumes excessive memory and starts slowing down your computer when you create many tabs and keep them open for long, sometimes your clicks work after some time. Chrome sometimes does not render page correctly. You may find some buttons missing from the web page.

The Chrome interface is inefficient and just weird. The "hamburger menu" is rubbish and disorganized. The browser control buttons like minimize and close are a strange size that doesn't fit well into the operating system desktop.

Chromium

Recommended over Chrome. Works well with Youtube. Chromium actually works better with some google apps, like Google Voice than Chrome does.

There is a fork called "Ungoogled Chromium" which has promise!

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox tends to be installed and set as the default browser on most Linux Distribution. It is recommended to uninstall Firefox and replace it with Pale Moon. There was a time when Firefox was a great web browser, but that was before politics, poor developer decision making, and bloat. Now this old ship anchor needs put out to sea with Netscape and all the other rubbish of the past.

Opera

Opera is a closed source web browser. It has recently released stable version for Linux that has taken Opera back into the competition. The recent stable release came with some new features. Opera is a good browser when it comes to integrated features. No need for extensions or plugins for some very interesting features.

Pale Moon

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and customization.

It Looks like the classic version of Firefox (before all of the awful changes in Firefox).

GNOME Web

Ghome Web, Epiphany Browser, or simply called "Web," this is a very basic lightweight, small memory model web browser that is extremely compatible with most web content including Google apps. It works surprisingly well considering how efficient and lightweight it is. This is a recommended browser are a fall back when the primary browser fails, or for use on and older computer with limited memory.

GNOME Web (referred to on this page by its codename, Epiphany) is the default web browser for the GNOME desktop environment. If you are using Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop, you will need to install the browser if you wish to use it. In Synaptic it is listed as "epiphany-browser" or you can use apt-get.

sudo apt install epiphany-browser

No fumbling around to install extra extensions. Essential features like ad blocking that are relegated to extensions by other browsers come built-in and enabled by default in Web.

Vivaldi

The stable version is available for Linux. Vivaldi is actually very similar to most of the competing web browsers. It’s built on the Chromium platform that powers Chrome, so uses the same rendering engine.