Which web browser do you use when using Linux?
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue 28 Feb 2006
| Konquerror |
   9% | 99 votes |
| Lynx |
2% | 28 votes |
| Mozilla Firefox |
71% | 754 votes |
| Opera |
6% | 71 votes |
| Mozilla |
8% | 86 votes |
| Links |
1% | 14 votes |
| Total 1052 votes |
I use Konqueror or Opera, mostly for page testing purposes, not for regular browsing. Now that Konqueror (in Etch) has built in "AdBlocK", it's a much nicer user experience than previously.
I've not used the full Mozilla Suite/Sea Monkey in months, though I did use it as my primary browser for most of the past 5 years on Linux/Windows.
I use Links or Lynx now and then from the command line, for alsorts of quick web tasks but not as a regular browser.
I don't recall using any of the other Gecko based browsers on Linux, though I did use K-Meleon on Windows to see what it was like.
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Top 15 of 1697 Total User Agents # Hits User Agent 1 1654617 59.81% Mozilla/5.0 2 314183 11.36% MSIE 6.0 3 85703 3.10% Akregator/1.2.1; librss/remnants 4 70076 2.53% Opera 8.5 5 47197 1.71% Konqueror/3.5 6 38768 1.40% Konqueror/3.4 7 34402 1.24% Google Desktop) 8 31840 1.15% rss2email/2.54 9 26644 0.96% Konqueror/3.3 10 26193 0.95% Yahoo! Slurp 11 21348 0.77% KNewsTicker v0.2 12 13226 0.48% Googlebot/2.1 13 11865 0.43% Opera 9.0 14 10580 0.38% rss2email/2.55 15 10180 0.37% Googlebot/2.1
Thats for February, total hits 2766565, total files 2096352, total visits 226728.
(These were previously public stats, but I was persuaded to hide them...)
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On linux/bsd/winblows I use firefox, except at work, where we have a manditory use of IE in place. :(
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(These were previously public stats, but I was persuaded to hide them...
Out of curiosity: Why ?. I can imagine a few reasons, but I'd like to hear yours :-)
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Several people believed that showing the IP addresses of the visitors was in some way violating their privacy.
I considered this information to be mostly public, and not anything to be concerned about, but was then asked "If you believe IP addresses are public why do you mask them when people are viewing comments?".
(The answer to that is that they're not masked for me as site admin, and the idea of displaying them was copied from the interface used on osnews.com.)
To be honest I don't feel strongly one way or another, but keeping the stats private seemed like a simple enough way to appease the strongly concerned, and so I figured I'd do it.
I look at them every now and again to see referer information, search keywords etc, but more than that they don't really get used too much. (It isn't like I have to inflate my rankings to sell advertising, or anything like that!)
So .. they're hidden for the moment .. they may come back if somebody makes a persuasive arguement .. and if people are curious on numbers / stats / etc then I'm certainly happy to share the details as I have done above.
I hope that satisfies your curiousity?
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Just google your IP, in quotes, like "192.168.0.0" and see for yourself.
First time I did that, I found a message I'd posted to a debian list had been forwarded to another public list... but WITH the complete headers. So, now my IP address mapped directly to my name and email address.
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Just an artifact of me tidying up the stats by removing the trailing URLs from after the spider names.
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You Can find it @ http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/.
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Nonetheless, I vote "links", as it has proven extremely useful over the years (although admittedly I started with the classic "lynx").
The ability to read any properly-formatted webpage over a simple SSH-secured terminal in total privacy is something that I couldn't live without anymore. Later "links" incarnations (e.g. the links2 package) even support some basic JavaScript functionality, which can be very helpful.
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About 1/3 of my browsing is done via text browsers (lynx -> links -> elinks [switch to utf-8] -> lynx/w3m).
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Very good.
Regards: Saynos
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