What browser do you use?

[whatthefunk]

I was a die hard Opera fan, but then they stopped supporting Linux. Ive been using Firefox for the past six months, but I find it to be really unstable. It crashes on me constantly and since I upgraded to 14.04 everything in Firefox is web 1.0. So Im shopping for a new browser. Any suggestions?

[Rod J]

I use Firefox myself here in 12.04.4 and it's as solid as a rock and always has been. I've never known it to crash ... ever.

[MoonRise]

Same here, FireFox. I've never noticed any crash issues BUT I have heard others say that. Don't know what would cause that but for me here it seems fine and runs great.

[Goeroeboeroe]

I'm on 12.10 and use Firefox as main browser. And even with 52 extensions it never crashes. Maybe some extension is causing problems?
I use Google Chrome to test sites in, never crashes. But I don't use it for normal surfing because of Google looking over my shoulder...
There's an Opera Linux version coming: http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/03/02/li...powered-opera/ But Opera removed literally everything that made Opera Opera, even a lot of very good articles about html/css/JavaScript on their site. And since they use Blink for rendering sites, just like Chromium/Google Chrome, I guess you might as well use Chromium.

[bsniadajewski]

Firefox here. I've had no problems with it either in Windows or Linux.

[life0riley]

I use Firefox on both Linux and Windows. I haven't experienced any notable issues issues with it.

[richb]

Google Chrome and Chromium. If anyone thinks that using any browser preserves privacy on the Internet, I would respectfully say think again.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data...l-information/

[ronw]

Firefox Current, Firefox Aurora, Google Chrome stable. Can't remember the last time either crashed. We use Google Apps at work, and my job is support of a web-based application, so I am always in at least 2 browsers.

[dibl]

I started with Chrome some years ago when Firefox and npviewer were either unstable or leaking memory all the time, and I've stayed with it even though Firefox seems to be stable and respectful of resources in recent times. I use Ghostery, Adblock, and Adblock Plus extensions. Occasionally I come across a forum or e-commerce site that Chrome doesn't handle correctly and so Firefox usually works for those cases. I run Chrome with the "--disk-cache-dir" option and let the cache run in /run/user/1000 (which is me). That way the cache goes poof whenever the computer gets shut down. I have Firefox set up the same way.

[whatthefunk]

Hmmm....I wonder whats wrong with my Firefox. Its horrendous. Will be debugging next time I nave free time.

It seems more stable in safe mode. I only have 3 addons...Adblock Plus, Ghostry, and Ubuntu Firefox Modifications. Nothing too weird....

[Snowhog]

For quite some time, I've been using Chromium (still am on my 32-bit 14.04 laptop). But since the upgrade to 14.04 on my 64-bit 14.04 laptop, I've switched to Firefox, as Chromium seems to have a memory leak that causes it to abruptly terminate. I'm hoping that some update will fix it.

[oshunluvr]

SR Ware Iron

[TWPonKubuntu]

@whatthefunk
I've been a Firefox user for many years, even pre-linux (8.04 was where I removed windoze and went full linux).
I'm now using the bleeding edge Firefox Aurora. That is the daily build version. I'm having no trouble, repeat, no trouble.
I do update it about every three days (39.1Mb download), just to get the latest. I like it...
Currently I'm running Kubuntu 13.04 on a dell laptop and a gateway desktop.

NOTE: Aurora is not from the repository, it is direct from Mozilla. That may be a part of your trouble. Have you tried a direct install from the Mozilla site (not from a repository)?

[Feathers McGraw]

Lots of people have said they are using Firefox, but are they running the verison from the Blue Shell PPA with KDE integration, or the standard GTK version?

Perhaps that is the reason why it's stable for some and not for others.

I've recently switched from Chromium to the Blue Shell version of Firefox, and like it a lot.

My one gripe is that its menus seem to take up considerably more precious vertical screen space than Chromium.

[jpenguin]

Firefox & Qupzilla

Opera is little more than a rebranded chrome now