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So it seems like Firefox is having problems and everyone has been complaining about it a lot. I sure hope they fix it quickly. It's crashing on me constantly when I indulge in my YouTube addiction, and it uses up an ever-increasing amount of memory. A lot of my friends are enjoying Opera, but I just can't bring myself to install a proprietary browser.
I decided to give KDE and Konqueror another shot. I'm actually pretty pleased with it. Although Konqueror doesn't support two of my favorite Web sites, GMail and YouTube, it is very stable and very snappy. Even better, it uses half as much memory. It has a menu option to open the current page in Firefox, which is helpful for the times it doesn't work. This matches what a lot of Mac users do: they use a mix of Firefox and Safari.
On the other hand, something strange happened when I was installing KDE. I accidentally uninstalled the Ubuntu flashplugin-nonfree package. Today, when I went to YouTube, Firefox asked me to install the Flash plugin locally (i.e. not system-wide). Since all I had to do was hit OK, I did. Voila, Firefox stopped crashing all the time. Weird.
I decided to give KDE and Konqueror another shot. I'm actually pretty pleased with it. Although Konqueror doesn't support two of my favorite Web sites, GMail and YouTube, it is very stable and very snappy. Even better, it uses half as much memory. It has a menu option to open the current page in Firefox, which is helpful for the times it doesn't work. This matches what a lot of Mac users do: they use a mix of Firefox and Safari.
On the other hand, something strange happened when I was installing KDE. I accidentally uninstalled the Ubuntu flashplugin-nonfree package. Today, when I went to YouTube, Firefox asked me to install the Flash plugin locally (i.e. not system-wide). Since all I had to do was hit OK, I did. Voila, Firefox stopped crashing all the time. Weird.
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Anyway I was using konqueror a while ago, and it was a good experience. As I'm a KDE user, it's well integrated with the KDE emailer, you can use it as a file browser, put a terminal (konsole) at the bottom of the screen for file browsing. I don't really remember why I switched, maybe for gmail and for flash probably. Spent some good time with Opera, but my distro upgrade screw the fonts, so I'm back on firefox now...
Sorry for the senseless fanboying. I just couldn't resist. ;) Use whatever you like!
While I'm a loyal Firefox user on Debian, I must admit its been quite unstable in the past, and the performance and memory usage is pretty annoying.
Hopefully WebKit will give us Gnomers a non-Gecko, non-proprietary option!
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Later, rock musicians, such as Pete Townsend of The Who, took on this tradition after getting in touch with their rebelious 'classical' side. After a while, the guitar was substituted because of the high cost of violas and the guitar being so readily available to the rock musician.
Please note that, "Cello!" is a perfectly good exclaimation too. It carries more weight and sounds better as well.
bimone, please get your facts straight before exposing your foolishness in public and on a blog.
/me gasps!
Thanks for telling me. I just fixed it.
Yeah, it was working for me too. I think I messed something up. Thanks!
Interesting!
> Hopefully WebKit will give us Gnomers a non-Gecko, non-proprietary option!
I'm just glad the www isn't just about IE anymore!
rofl!
Epiphany's UI sucks wrt firefox but at least is much more stable.
Of course if you want solid rock you should use opera. You know, flashplugin-nonfree is... non "free" :)
Yeah, I know. It irritates me.