Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

[Mick]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:30, Fabian Hackhofer wrote:
> Jorge Almeida schrieb:
> > I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing
> > doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless
> > Brazilian links.
>
> Ever tried to type site:uk or site:us after the search-phrase?

I suspect that this is a google not FF issue.  When I change countries I get 
responses relative to the (geographic) IP that I logon from.  If you use a 
http proxy from another country do you still get Brazilian links? (google for 
public proxies to test this).

Browser-wise I use Konqueror and Opera.  I prefer Opera for speed (despite the 
fact that I am mostly connecting with ADSL) and for privacy - unlike gecko 
and Khtml engined browsers Opera does not divulge Referrer headers, unless 
you set it to do so.  I have been using Opera for around 6 years and have 
found that they continuously develop this browser and it's features, while 
retaining a smaller footprint than any(?) other browser.  They have developed 
a sometimes buggy mail client which along with a multitude of other clients 
(news, IM, SMS, etc) is integrated in a non-intrusive manner with the Opera 
browser.  The Opera mail client database principle and its filters was 
effectively copied by Google after a few years and was implemented as the now 
well known Gmail.  Every now and then I see one of Opera's features or 
functionality e.g. tabs being copied by other browsers.  Opera continue 
development for many different platforms (I first came across Opera on a 
Psion 5mx!).  Other than the sometimes buggy releases although Opera comes 
free for Linux, it is *not* open source.  That said it has a big community 
following and great support through forums and ng.

Konqueror has come in leaps & bounds over the last few years and is now the 
best stds compliant browser than the all the rest (check acid test 2).  Since 
it integrates nicely with Kmail I tend to use it a lot when I browse links in 
messages, or when I have already launched other KDE apps and the associated 
kdeinit and kio-slaves are already running.

Finally, I use FF when I come across websites that won't render properly in 
the other two browsers - invariably on stupidly designed internet banking 
sites which discriminate against anything other than M$IE & Netscape!!!

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick