Firefox Vs Opera Vs Chrome Vs Chromium

[Brahim]

Hi guys! I have a slow EDGE connection and I want to know which browser is best for me. I kinda like Firefox but Firefox 18 is a snail and I want something faster! Does anyone know the difference between Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Chromium

[xenion]

You have a slow computer? I can't give you exact details, but I can tell you what I know from experience. Chrome is semi-fast, built in flash, etc etc. In other words, its alright. If your looking to develop or design, go with chromium, its open source and you'll really be able to do what you want with it. I use firefox just because it comes default with my mint 14 distro. The browser I truly recommend though, is Midori, as my friend was able to run it on a terrible school computer that had 1.4GHz processor with 512 RAM~without installation. Midori is good, I guess just do a "sudo apt-get install Midori" in your terminal and it will give you the standard browser and the private browsing instance of it; enjoy whichever you pick! And if there is an inaccuracy please feel free to correct

[Brahim]

You have a slow computer? I can't give you exact details, but I can tell you what I know from experience. Chrome is semi-fast, built in flash, etc etc. In other words, its alright. If your looking to develop or design, go with chromium, its open source and you'll really be able to do what you want with it. I use firefox just because it comes default with my mint 14 distro. The browser I truly recommend though, is Midori, as my friend was able to run it on a terrible school computer that had 1.4GHz processor with 512 RAM~without installation. Midori is good, I guess just do a "sudo apt-get install Midori" in your terminal and it will give you the standard browser and the private browsing instance of it; enjoy whichever you pick! And if there is an inaccuracy please feel free to correct

Sorry but I'm runnig Firefox on a dell inspiron i3 with 4 GB RAM and so I guess I have enough resources . The problem is with Firefox 18. It's slow to load websites. I have just installed Opera and the difference is dramatic. Opera is twice as fast

[mmix]

hi, try firefox nightly.(latest firefox version).
https://nightly.mozilla.org/

chrome kinda fast, but all your information belongs to google.
if you like chrome style but want more privacy,then try chromium
http://www.chromium.org/

[ultraviolet]

i would like to only use Opera, but, for now it just doesn't cut it speed wise. perhaps when they implement the webkit engine things might change.

i've found that sometimes FireFox completely crashes when playing 1080p youtube videos and i can't have that.

as i'm not a fan on google, so Chrome is out of the question, so i'm just in the process of migrateing all of my bookmarks to Chromium. although i'm well aware that on a smaller system with tight resources it can be a memory beast

[raymerjacque]

Opera for Pure speed and Comfort level. Of the 3 its most customizable, comes with most of the daily used addons built in and its by far the fastest of the lot.

[Brahim]

Opera for Pure speed and Comfort level. Of the 3 its most customizable, comes with most of the daily used addons built in and its by far the fastest of the lot.

I totally agree!! Opera an out-of-the-box browser! It is the fastest and most elegant browser I have ever tried! I realized when writing this article that it even has a spell checker preinstalled

[bigj231]

FYI, Chrome has a pre-installed spellchecker, as does Firefox. I do agree about opera though. It is a great browser that seems really unappreciated. I don't use it since I never really got into it. I tried it but never set it as my default, so I always migrated back to Firefox.
EDIT: Opera mini does some amazing stuff on mobile devices. If there's away to port it to Linux, it would definitely be the fastest.

[bazarov]

Opera is a beautiful browser and imo is fast and smooth. The turbo function is really great if you've a slower connection. It raises some privacy concerns but I'd trust the loveable Norwegians at Opera not to snoop.

[bigj231]

All of the secure stuff (https) doesn't go through opera's server at all. So there really isn't too much to be worried about (unless you use the same password for everything, which is stupid anyway.)
Anyway after trying opera again for a night, I remember why I don't set it as my default. It's a little too quirky for me. The autologin does weird stuff sometimes, and the entire feel just isn't "right." I do agree that it is nice and smooth, but I still don't care for it. No idea why. I'll keep using it, maybe it'll grow on me.

[excollier]

If I try to use Opera for YouTube on LM13 Mate, the Shockwave Flash plug in crashes, so I'm sticking with Firefox.

[xenion]

You have a slow computer? I can't give you exact details, but I can tell you what I know from experience. Chrome is semi-fast, built in flash, etc etc. In other words, its alright. If your looking to develop or design, go with chromium, its open source and you'll really be able to do what you want with it. I use firefox just because it comes default with my mint 14 distro. The browser I truly recommend though, is Midori, as my friend was able to run it on a terrible school computer that had 1.4GHz processor with 512 RAM~without installation. Midori is good, I guess just do a "sudo apt-get install Midori" in your terminal and it will give you the standard browser and the private browsing instance of it; enjoy whichever you pick! And if there is an inaccuracy please feel free to correct

Sorry but I'm runnig Firefox on a dell inspiron i3 with 4 GB RAM and so I guess I have enough resources . The problem is with Firefox 18. It's slow to load websites. I have just installed Opera and the difference is dramatic. Opera is twice as fast

Opera uses compression techniques to make a difference in speed. Opera is a good recommendation. I completely forgot about this, thank you Brahim

[DrHu]

For low resources the fastest browser would be a text based one; but you would definately have to get used to a different way of operating (text style, vs GUI/desktop style)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linu ... b-browsers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we ... ng_systems

Other than that, it is purely a matter of choice
--although I have always found firefox slow to start and a bit slow to grab pages..

I use Opera and find it the most customizable and pretty fast

If I did use google browser, I would probably pick Chromium, which is the OSS version of Chrome..

[raymerjacque]

For low resources the fastest browser would be a text based one; but you would definately have to get used to a different way of operating (text style, vs GUI/desktop style)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linu ... b-browsers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we ... ng_systems

Other than that, it is purely a matter of choice
--although I have always found firefox slow to start and a bit slow to grab pages..

I use Opera and find it the most customizable and pretty fast

If I did use google browser, I would probably pick Chromium, which is the OSS version of Chrome..

Chrome in windows is pretty nice, in linux it sux tho. Opera is best choice if you looking for speed and customisability.

[grizzler]

Hi guys! I have a slow EDGE connection and I want to know which browser is best for me. I kinda like Firefox but Firefox 18 is a snail and I want something faster!

Whatever you do, take Firefox 18 out of the equasion. It had a serious bug which has been fixed in 19. Try that before you decide.

Before the problems with FF18 were acknowledged, I looked around for a replacement as well. The only one that would have made a chance would have been Opera, if I had been able to get it to stop ignoring my font settings. I'm not sure I like the current direction Opera's development is taking, though.
Anyway, I'm sticking with Firefox, as 19 doesn't have the speed problems 18 had.