On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:01 -0500, Paul Fierro wrote: > I use Linux on the server end but not much on the client end. What are the > better Web browsers Linux users use? I guess I'm weird in using Galeon [http://galeon.sf.net/], though I think development has kind of stagnated on it. Galeon started off as a "lightweight" Gecko-based browser back before Firefox got going, and added a number of features I like. I like being able to type in "www.whatever.com", press Ctrl+Enter and get it to pop up in a new tab (in Firefox, this prepends "www." and appends ".com", which is often pretty silly, since the browser normally appends ".com" if it can't resolve an address anyway). The tabbing behavior is more configurable, though there are various Firefox extensions that make this easier these days. Galeon also has smart bookmarks built in, so you can have one or more search field right in your toolbar (I have one for Google and one for Wikipedia -- er, a Google search in site:en.wikipedia.org), or create a bookmark elsewhere with "%s" somewhere in there and use a keyword to search. For instance, I have a keword bookmark named "news" that searches Google News, plus others for Netflix and IMDB so I don't have to browse to the site to use their search engine. Type in "imdb back to the future", and there you go.. (Firefox has a few keywords built in, such as "map" and "news", but I haven't figured out where they're configured -- I don't like their default behaviors). But, Galeon isn't compatible with the pile of extensions Firefox has now. I really wish I could use AdBlock, for instance, so I might end up switching over to Firefox fairly soon. -- Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050912/4c1f1ca2/attachment.pgp