There’s always uzbl, the new browser that embodies the Unix philosophy. It started by Archers and it’s trickling down to other distros now. It uses Webkit and the interface/keybindings are whatever you decide they should be. Basically if you’re using dwm, awesome, or some other tiling window manager you’re probably already running it.

@Pranav Shah:
You mean like “What does your browser say about you – the sequel”?
Well, wait for “The Revenge of What does your browser say about you” !

@Luke –

I remember the earlier post on browsers, back in the day. That was the post that made me subscribe to your blog in the first place. good work with the blog, keep it up! That post was such a superlative in awesome that like all sequels this one although awesome doesnt quite cut it without the previous ones! That one made me laugh, this one makes me just look at the browser scene.

Any readers who have read the previous post on browsers share the same opinion?

To lazy to download Chrome so you run Chromium that’s available via apt.

Well, the Chromium available in apt is not the browser! It’s an arcade space shooter! The browser needs to be downloaded as deb or installed from PPA for daily builds (and subsequently updated via apt…).

This is probably a good place to point out that Iron, is a chromium based web browser with out all of google’s helpful tracking features, for those of us who are paranoid but sill like google.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_faq.php

A very nice and amusing post :) Your predictions of the user’s personalities seems to be spot on! I am a Firefox addict too. The net seems a different place without it :( My favorite feature is Add-ons. No Fox should be without it! :)

Nice article, made me laugh. Just thought I’d point out two things though:

1. Konqueror is still (by default) KHTML and not WebKit.

2. Epiphany recently switched from Gecko to WebKit.

:)

When I stopped using Opera, I was surprised at exactly how many ads the internet had. I was also surprised that I ever waited forever and a day just for my browser to open. For now I use Kazehakase, but if Midori ever stabilizes, I’ll jump ship just to have adblock back. Of course, I keep FF around for when a website bawks at my choice of browser and I’m too lazy to change my useragent string. And DownThemAll.

I was actually surprised that Midori didn’t make your post — I thought it had a decent amount of popularity, and it passes acid3.

I sometimes fire up IE (7) to see how the web looks without Adblock and NoScript (or because a website requires that I do so…), and I am amazed at what people can put up with using browsers that don’t contain these two features. I like to think that they are committing a selfless sacrifice, so that bloggers, websites owners, free hosts and huge corporations actually get money from all these little banners that remain hidden to my eyes. As a compensation, I miss out on very important security alerts, offers for highly efficient antivirus to solve them, online gambling, cool emoticons and other fun and completely secure things.

Oh, and BTW: I tried posting from my netbook with Midori on Kuki Linux, but got blocked by WP-SpamFree:
“Your location has been identified as part of a reported spam network. Comments have been disabled to prevent spam.”
No problems with Chromium/Karmic on my main rig (using same IP) though…