suggestions for alternative to firefox

[Adric Mitchell]

Swiftfox is good, you could also give Opera a try. I've never cared  
much for Opera, but I know a lot of people who enjoy it. There's also  
Epiphany, and Konqurer (sorry if I misspelled something, I've been  
swimming and the chlorine has gotten to my eyes).

On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:

> I don't have any suggestions really.  I use swiftfox
> (http://getswiftfox.com/) and have been happy with it.  I'm wondering
> what are the things that are annoying and what if anything have you
> tried to do to remedy them?
>
> Bob
>
> On 6/21/07, Brandon Blackwell <ubuntunews at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just been getting slowly annoyed with Firefox over that last  
>> several
>> weeks and have finally decided to look for an alternative. The  
>> problem is
>> I've become dependent on some extensions and a few other things in  
>> Firefox.
>> I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for browsers  
>> that can do
>> all in the list I created below.
>>
>>
>>
>> spell check
>> tabs. Even IE has them now so surely there aren't many browsers  
>> that don't
>> unless they are really light weight.
>> ad blocking capabilities as easy and good as the adblock plus  
>> extension
>> a good download manager. I use the DownThemAll! extension. I don't  
>> need one
>> just like it but one that works at least better than the default  
>> Firefox has
>> with no extensions.
>> open source preferably
>> A bookmarking system at least as good as what Firefox has and the  
>> ability to
>> put bookmarks in a toolbar.
>> something that works like that showcase extension. This one isn't  
>> a must but
>> it would be nice.
>> good JavaScript control. I don't know if there is anything like  
>> the noscript
>> extension for anything else but that's what I'm looking for. So  
>> JavaScript
>> isn't just on or off for everything but where I can choose which  
>> sites can
>> use it.
>> A spot for me to search Google with. A figure most everything has  
>> this
>> anyway. But I do know I don't like how seamonkey does this so I  
>> don't won't
>> something that handles Google searching like that.
>> flash support(basically youtube and homestarrunner support)
>> still actively developed
>> Not a must but an undo closed tab feature. And just having history  
>> won't
>> work because I often don't remember the name of what I was just  
>> looking at
>> when I want to undo.
>> As fast or faster than firefox.
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>> oracle5
>>
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