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Hipster browsers - Corile - 08-06-2014
Just a quick question that I was wondering about. Currently most of the marketshare in terms of browsers is attributed to Chrome, Firefox, Safari, (like it or not) Internet Exploder, and to a lesser extent Opera. There's a lot of great other browsers though. I have personally tested four and you can see the results below.
Comodo Dragon and Comodo IceDragon - These are pretty much exactly the same as Chrome and Firefox, respectively. Dragon is done on Chromium, IceDragon is done on Gecko. I like their design more and also they have a very useful feature that allows you to take an image or highlight a bit of text and then drag it to the side of the window for either sharing on social networks or searching (on Google, Wikipedia etc.). Besides, with Comodo being pretty much an internet security company, these also have a few security tweaks. Also IceDragon keeps the tabs square. Would reccommend to everyone who doesn't like radical changes.
Maxthon - My least favourite of the group. It's very lightweight and looks very nicely, true, but it also lacks a lot of extensions since it's not built on any of the preexisting engines. If you like to have your browser run smoothly, take Maxthon, the problem is what it will compensate in its speed will lose with the lack of adblock.
Sleipnir - I'm using this one currently. They put a lot, and I mean A LOT work into designing this, making sure it looks perfect and has a very quick workflow. It has one feature that I liked from newer Internet Explorer versions - grouping tabs by relation and many other nice features. I believe it's built on its own engine, but it has Chromium support which means you can easily install extensions meant for Chrome. It also has built-in font antialiasing which is something everyone loves from Linux and Mac browsers (despite the fact that Mac users are peasants).
This is the difference between fonts in Sleipnir and IceDragon: http://prntscr.com/4a9n0i
tl;dr: Do you use any of the non-mainstream browsers? If yes, why? If no, why?
Let's be real, this thread WILL cause a flamewar.
RE: Hipster browsers - dirmaster0 - 08-06-2014
No Opera? Probably haven't heard of it ;3
RE: Hipster browsers - Corile - 08-06-2014
(08-06-2014, 11:12 PM)dirmaster0 Wrote: No Opera? Probably haven't heard of it ;3
Quote:and to a lesser extent Opera
I just never thought about using it. I remember I did a long time ago, but it didn't have anything it could offer me.
RE: Hipster browsers - dirmaster0 - 08-06-2014
(08-06-2014, 11:13 PM)Protégé Wrote:(08-06-2014, 11:12 PM)dirmaster0 Wrote: No Opera? Probably haven't heard of it ;3Quote:and to a lesser extent Opera
I just never thought about using it. I remember I did a long time ago, but it didn't have anything it could offer me.
My apologies I just briefly skimmed it.
Anyway I always thought the chat function in the program was pretty neat (this was a few years ago before Mozilla Firefox was popular, prior to the days of Chrome). Not to mention there was a built in search feature that would search through multiple search engines (before Google was Uber Master Supreme of all things everything). I still use my operamail email address actually, but I have not touched the browser in years. For an enthusiast it's nifty, but for the average user it won't do much different than what you could get with Firefox or Chrome.
RE: Hipster browsers - Corile - 08-06-2014
I don't really consider Opera 'hipster' because everyone knows about it but nobody uses it. It just eventually didn't have much to offer.
RE: Hipster browsers - Chuba - 08-06-2014
(08-06-2014, 11:20 PM)Protégé Wrote: I don't really consider Opera 'hipster' because everyone knows about it but nobody uses it. It just eventually didn't have much to offer.
i actually use it sometimes
RE: Hipster browsers - Corile - 08-06-2014
very few people use it as a main browser*
RE: Hipster browsers - Error - 08-07-2014
Does Lynx count? I do actually use that on my laptop from time to time; it works perfectly when I just want to read something (e.g. Wikipedia) with little screen space left over for a full browser window. It's not like you need CSS and HTML5 support for reading a bit of text, after all...
RE: Hipster browsers - Panzer - 08-07-2014
![[Image: netscape-5.png]](http://icons.iconseeker.com/png/fullsize/windows-icons-v2-programs/netscape-5.png){kind=icon}
Nafff sed.
RE: Hipster browsers - KruShaK - 08-07-2014
http://info.fenrir-inc.com/us/privacy/
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