Free Software Alternatives to Browsing the Web from Linux
Seems that the world doesn’t end with Firefox and Gecko (its rendering engine). There are other options, and two that I didn’t know and look promising are:
- Arora: QtWebKit based, with the WebKit rendering engine. It’s stable and supports, among others, the Flash plugin (that is as clumsy as running with Firefox). It uses the Qt toolkit.
- Midori: WebKit rendering engine again, but this time using GTK+ toolkit. Maybe it’s not as mature as Arora, but looks pretty good and definitely it’s worth keeping an eye on it.
I’m using Firefox 3.5, and since the memory consumption it’s not an issue for me, I’m fine with it. Arora looks and feels great, but I’m staying with Firefox by now.
At the moment my only issue with Firefox 3.x is that Zimbra 4.x doesn’t work with it, and I need to have a backup installation of Firefox 2.x. Neither Arora nor Midori works fine with Zimbra 4.x (both use WebKit, remember).
