Beyond Firefox: 10 Other Great Linux Browsers

by: Matt on: May 5th, 2009

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Firefox has been a reliable browser for me for many years and it still continues to be so to a certain extent. However, over the last few releases Firefox has become bloated and slow in performance that same way IE used to be before we switched to Firefox. The only thing that is stopping me from switching to another browser, is the large number of extensions available for Firefox. Specifically firebug. Since I spend most of my time on a Linux system, over the last few days I have been looking for an alternative Linux browser. Here are 10 of the best Linux browsers out there that can be a decent alternative to Firefox:

1) Opera

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2) Konqueror

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3) Galeon

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4) Epiphany

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5) Arora

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6) Midori

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7) Seamonkey

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8) Netsurf

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9) Amaya

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10) Kazehakase

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You might also want to try out early builds of Chrome for Linux, which is not quite ready yet. If you are in to terminal based browsers, check out lynx and links.

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Comments:

Kevin
05/06/2009

Might I suggest adding at least a little bit of detail for each? Maybe what rendering engine it uses and when development started if nothing else…

Otherwise great list, at least 1 new one for me :-)
Jimmie
05/06/2009

I agree with Kevin. Nice list of browsers, but maybe add some features of each one or what you like about them.
Robert
05/06/2009

May I suggest arora http://code.google.com/p/arora/
My main browser aside from firefox for the essentials such as online banking.

It’s a lightweight QT browser based on QT-Webkit which is similar to rekonq http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/.

(In case you haven’t guessed it, yes I am running the latest tree builds of QT/KDE4)

Main reasons I like this browser are that it is Webkit, lightweight. This also means it’s not as extensible as some but for running 20+ tabs in multiple windows I don’t want added plug-ins slowing me down.

And soon should be getting a hack that each tab is a seperate process which will help for overall stability, (similar to chrome I believe)
CdeMills
05/07/2009

May I also suggest to indicate the status of those browsers ? Galeon is just plain dead, the latest version is from 2006. And on Midori Web site, it’s stated that the development is in an early stage.
harrykar
05/07/2009

@CdeMills You’re right Now Epiphany is on streamline. IMHO a decent GTK browser. Is my second browser. The FF add-ons is like LOL a narcotic thing
Keith
05/07/2009

Is this what passes for an article about “10 great linux browsers”?
Screenshots of 10 different browsers, and links to their sites?
Why are they great? Why are they good alternatives to firefox?
This is really a waste of anybody’s time.
Even a sentence or two about them would have been nice.
All filler, no killer.
Sertse
05/07/2009

Yea, I believe Galeon is not developed anymore, and a lot of it’s features remade as extensions for Epiphany. So the placing makes no sense at all.
zero
05/09/2009

Who is the best releasing security patch <>
Relst.nl
05/28/2009

For the console I like elinks better, and if you want a very lightweight browser then you could try dillo. That is really fast, but it doesn’t load stylesheets so some website’s could look a bit weird.
Cim
02/09/2010

this is a fail post, you need to do some research and add your opinions on why the browsers deserve to be on this post.

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