Which browser do you use?

[stowpirate]

Been playing with this Skipstone browser and found a slight bug in the tabbed view so have switched it to windowed view and it now works fine. The problem was that you have to toggle between the tabs when opening a new link to get the new page to load/display. It is 0.9.7 release so there are probably still a few small bugs in it. With the whole point of Skipstone in being a super lightweight browser I do not understand why they have even bothered with tabbed view as if you use windowed view you get the same result albeit the tabs are then located in the OS system tray.

 

[bmd]

Is that an image from a Puppy desktop, stowpirate?

 

[Sunray]

Firefox lost my bookmarks, which really annoyed me (I'd saved most of them) and then it just seemed to want to use loads of ram. I tried Opera but it won't work on on my work pc (pages won't load and when I try them in another browser they do) so I've got rid and am trying Safari. My bank is Nat West, which will work with Firefox and IE but seeing as I don't use FF atm I'm using IE.

I'm still faffing about with Ubuntu but it won't work with my Xfi card so I don't bother with it much. Someone is donating an old Pentium 4 based machine to me soon though, so I'm gonna have another go with it on that.

I use foxmarks which syncs all my bookmarks on all my machines totally transparently. So if I add one on this machine I add it to all the machines I use.

Not lost a book mark ever.

I would use FF3 as it looks nice, but too many extensions I use for work don't work on it yet.

 

[jæd]

Been playing with this Skipstone browser and found a slight bug in the tabbed view so have switched it to windowed view and it now works fine. The problem was that you have to toggle between the tabs when opening a new link to get the new page to load/display. It is 0.9.7 release so there are probably still a few small bugs in it. With the whole point of Skipstone in being a super lightweight browser I do not understand why they have even bothered with tabbed view as if you use windowed view you get the same result albeit the tabs are then located in the OS system tray.

If you want a fast, light wight browser just use Epiphany or Galeon...

 

[stowpirate]

Is that an image from a Puppy desktop, stowpirate?

It is from my Puppy 4 desktop

I have added a lot of software that does not come as standard with Puppy 4 including an overkill number of browsers installed:

Seamonkey 1.1.8 and 1.1.9 plus a windows version of 1.1.9 running under wine
Opera 9.26, 9.27 with 9.5 somewhere on the hard drive!
Firefox 2 and 3 plus a windows version of 3 running under wine
Skipstone
Netsurf
Amaya

Maybe a few more I have just installed and left unused on the hard drive!

 

[stowpirate]

If you want a fast, light wight browser just use Epiphany or Galeon...

Whats wrong with Skipstone apart from a few little bugs?

Or even maybe Netsurf

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

 

[jæd]

Whats wrong with Skipstone apart from a few little bugs?

The bugs...? Some people have to use browsers professionally...

 

[stowpirate]

The bugs...? Some people have to use browsers professionally...

I think all browsers have some degree of bugs in them even IE and Firefox?

 

[jæd]

I think all browsers have some degree of bugs in them even IE and Firefox?

I'd be interested on how you intend to demonstrate that...? IE has huge security issues with it, particularly the ActiveX fiasco. And if you're going to go by bug counts, these are a very misleading indication of software reliability...

 

[stowpirate]

I'd be interested on how you intend to demonstrate that...? IE has huge security issues with it, particularly the ActiveX fiasco. And if you're going to go by bug counts, these are a very misleading indication of software reliability...

You could try something like its ability to display html, css and look for obvious flaws. I have tried all my browsers except for IE7.

http://acid2.acidtests.org/

I tested this lot:

Firefox 2 fail
Firefox 3 passed
Opera 9.26 and 9.27 passed - no blue nose!
Seamonkey 1.1.8 and 1.1.9 failed
Amaya passed
Netsurf failed - this one was a real mess!
Skipstone failed

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Tried the acid3 test and they all failed first time with the best being

Firefox 3 getting 71/100
Firefox 2 52/100
Skipstone 51/100
Seamonkey 50/100
Opera 46/100

Redid the tests by accident on reload and Opera passed with a blue nose and 100/100.

So this suggests Opera is the best browser?