Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Chromium are not, by any means the only Web browsers in the world, nor are they necessarily the best browsers for every situation. Some of the other alternative browsers may be better at some things and inferior in other areas, but there are plenty of choices these days.
Alternatives in the Mozilla "world": Firefox,
Alternatives in the Mozilla "world": Firefox,
Iceweasel
(this will probably be disappearing; Firefox is once again available on some Debian-based distributions).
SeaMonkey
Seamonkey is an original descendant of the Mozilla browser family. If you remember Netscape and the early Mozilla replacement, Seamonkey descends from that.
Pale Moon
"Pale Moon diverges from Firefox in removing accessibility and parental
control options, while modifying the default interface settings to be
similar to earlier versions of Firefox — it has a bookmark toolbar and
status bar by default. It also uses its own configuration directory,
unlike Waterfox." Version: 27.6.2 (64-bit) is the current version I happen to have installed and I am using it now.
Waterfox
Until recently, Mozilla didn’t provide official builds of Firefox compiled for 64-bit systems. I just checked; this is no longer true; I just re-downloaded the latest Firefox. Waterfox is available on multiple platforms, including 64-bit Linux systems. All of these are decent Web browsers. Waterfox is quite a bit similar to Firefox and seems to have equal or superior performance. It is not updated quite as often (nor are the others, so be careful if you are concerned about the latest security fixes.
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I was using Pale Moon since its inception, but now use Vivaldi-Snapshot on all my machines. It is very highly configurable, and written by the same guy was wrote Opera, which I was using since 1998. Try Vivaldi, I'm sure you'll like it.
I have tried Vivaldi, but I have not (to my knowledge) been using a snapshot version, nor have I given it as full and complete trial as several other browsers.
On the Chrome and Chromium side of alternative browsers, I've been having a lot of success with FlashPeak Slimjet.
I've also used Chromium and Slimjet, but still prefer Vivaldi-Snapshot above the rest.
That's cool, Tony. What is it about Vivaldi-Snapshot that you prefer above the rest?
So far in my experimentation, both Vivaldi (not necessarily in snapshot form) and FlashPeak Slimjet have been stable, faster than most other browsers, and capable of handling the daily workload.
I did find it easy to import my existing bookmarks, passwords, and configurations into FlashPeak Slimjet. Vivaldi has a lot of built in pages; I have not yet imported bookmarks or other capabilities of Vivaldi and I've not yet explored it as much as Slimjet.
What's your favorite capability and reason or reasons that it has risen to be your favorite Web browser?
Where Vivaldi is stable,until a new release, the Snapshot is updating almost daily. This offers me no problem, nor time wasted, as I am a Linux user. For instance, last week or so, a website for their email was added, as was Sync, which is very useful to me, as I have many machines in use. They do take the users suggestions under serious consideration.
Sounds good, Tony. I often use nightly builds of Firefox and Seamonkey. It's good to know that Vivaldi Snapshots is solid enough to use on a regular basis.
Do you just use the default bookmarks provided by Vivaldi Snapshot, or do you have a convenient means of importing or adding your existing bookmarks?
I tend to have a lot of my own bookmarks, so having a good way of either importing them from another frequently used browser or at least pulling them in from a bookmark.html file is an important feature for me.
In the "Settings" you have a choice from where to import your "Bookmarks".On the "Start" page, you have Speed Dial, where you can place a multitude of Favorites, etc.
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