Web Browsers
Submitted by miggols99 on 10 March, 2008 - 22:07
Kazehakaze
A very lightweight web browser with some advanced features such as mouse gestures.
Install with
pacman -S kazehakaze
Integrates well with...
Gnome, Xfce, and Gtk+ based window managers
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla FirefoxThe newest version of Firefox, it uses much less memory than it's predecessor. It features better Gtk integration, and is a lot faster with rendering web pages.
Install with
pacman -S firefox
Integrates well with...
Gnome, Xfce and Gtk+ based window managers.
Swiftweasel
An optimized build of Mozilla Firefox with the Kempleton theme and various extensions. It is only available in the AUR. Search for "swiftweasel" with yaourt or browse the AUR, and find the package that suits your processor.
Install with
See my guide about installing programs from the AUR.
Epiphany
Gnome's own web browser. Based on the Gecko rendering engine, and faster than Firefox.
Epiphany
Install with
pacman -S epiphany
Integrates well with...
Gnome
Opera
Opera is a feature packed web browser with some of the best standards compliance. Some people don't like it because it is closed source. It is quite fast and supports themes.
Opera
Install with
pacman -S opera
Integrates well with...
KDE
Konqueror
Konqueror is the "web browser, file manager and universal document viewer" bundled with kdebase. It uses KDE's own rendering engine called KHTML. In KDE4 you will be able to choose between Webkit and KHTML.
Konqueror
Install with
pacman -S kdebase>
Integrates well with...
KDE
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NetSurf
A promising looking minimal GTK2 browser being developed for embedded devices is NetSurf. Quite small and fast. Unfortunately, it has trouble with redirects, so checking Gmail is a bit of a pain. It *does* support CSS though, so it's several steps above Dillo.