suggestions for alternative to firefox

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Fri Jun 22 09:04:37 UTC 2007


On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
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

You can do this yourself - Open up Synaptic and search for Browser

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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