[TriLUG] Firefox behavior

[Jason White]

* Paul McLanahan (pmclanahan at gmail.com) [091009 10:36]:
> The dev builds of Chrome are now more stable on my Ubuntu Jaunty box
> than Firefox, and a whole lot faster. Still missing some features, and
> the flash support is definitely more buggy, but it does work.
> Especially cool is the ability it has to kill a failing tab, rather
> than the whole window. The Chromium dev site has the download for
> Ubuntu/Debian if you're interested, and installing the .deb adds the
> google repo to your sources.list for updates.
> 
> http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Linux
 
With so many browser choices on a Linux desktop, I tend to take
advantage of them all.  

On my Ubuntu Jaunty desktop:

Firefox: main browser, usually have 10-20 tabs open and it can
certainly slow down from time to time.   Since $WORK requires
Kerberos for most web activity, FF is a must-have.

Chromium: used for Google Reader and other heavy Javascript sites, but
don't do much browsing with it since my precious FF extensions aren't
avaialble or as good as FF.  Example: if I read something via Google
Reader that I want to bookmark with delicious, I'll open up a FF tab,
bookmark it, and close it.   Not the most convienient, but it works.
Once Chromium gets Kerberos/Negotiate support, things will get
interesting.

Ephiphany: used as a backup to FF if FF is just really running slow on
a particular day, and I'm just not patient enough to restart all my
FF tabs.  (Also supports Kerberos, which is handy).

Also use Konqueror and Opera occasionally...

Jason