![]() ![]() ![]() The browser is very performant and polished, offering more features with each release. These include ad filtering, Greasemonkey support and mouse gestures.įeatures include: HTML4, CSS1 and XHTML support including support for HTML5 and CSS3, inbuilt plugins of Adobe Flash and IcedTea, bookmark and "smart bookmark" feature which allows easy search in find-in-as-you-type manner, full integration with GNOME features including GNOME Network Manager, GNOME printer etc, and other features supported by most browsers. More recent versions have dropped support for user extensions, but a number of the most popular add-ons have become a core part of the browser. It is a WebKit-based browser which adheres to the design tenets of the GNOME project, offering a clean, simple interface and tight integration with the desktop environment. The official browser of the GNOME project, Web was previously known as Epiphany. On the other side, Chromium does not feature Google's tracking software.įollowing its main competitors, Chrome ships with only the most basic functionality, but it is very extensible, and the number of add-ons has risen dramatically over the years. With Chrome you get few potentially useful features, such as H.264 support and Google's version of the Flash plugin, and Google cloud sync. Apart from Google Chrome, Chromium also forms the base for a large number of other Web Browsers.Ĭhromium and Google Chrome both have few differences between them. It is designed with a minimalistic user interface so as to make it lightweight and fast.įeatures of Chromium include a tabbed window manager, support for Vorbis, Theora, WebM codecs for HTML5 Audio and Video, Bookmark and History and Session management. It is mainly written in C++ with the latest release being in December 2016. You will find that there is a split between a host of distributions as to whether they ship with Firefox as the default web browser or Chromium. ![]() Chromium / ChromeĬhromium is the open source project that forms the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Mozilla is currently in the process of switching to WebExtension framework and it may get a new Web Engine called Quantum and a new UI called Photon by early next year, which might change the game field in its favor. Still, a lot of users love it, and there is a reason why it is the default browser on most major Linux distros. Previously it was battling it out with Internet Explorer for market share and just as it looked like it was beginning to win the battle a new player came onto the scene and now it is not even the best browser on Linux. Unfortunately, it is destined to always be the bridesmaid and never the bride. However, the performance is a bit clunky, the extension landscape just is not as good as it once was. It is one of the most customizable browsers, and the ocean of user add-ons and themes created for it will likely never be surpassed by other projects. Mozilla Firefox is the third most popular browser in the world, and likely the most popular Linux browser since it ships with many Linux distributions by default. Well, you cannot have a list of Linux web browsers, without Firefox. ![]()
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