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Scanning the web browser landscape

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:55 am
by Chris Corbyn
Who says Opera/Firefox are what we should be using?

I'm sure there are some great projects out there which go un-noticed and could do with some attention. So I'm sat here searching for web browsers under active development which I haven't seen before and I'm going to experiment with a few.

Found Flock and currently installing the Mac version. Looks like it could be a bit of gimmick/security nightmare with file sharing as part of its buzz but I'll see.

Anyways, just wanted people to post any links to cool experimental or new and under development (cross platform!) web browsers they know of :)

EDIT | Hmm, that Flock feels, looks and acts like a Pretty version of Firefox.
Flock -> About Flock wrote:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061109 Firefox/1.5.0.8 Flock/0.7.8
EDIT 2 | Yeah, Flock turned out to be a re-skinned firefox with some hacking done to add a photos bar which ties in with Flickr.

Firefox 3 is already at alpha 1 though 8O

http://reviews.cnet.com/Firefox_3_Gran_ ... ag=fea_txt
CNet wrote:What's exciting about Gran Paradiso is its new rendering engine. The Gekko 1.9 rendering engine will introduce some changes. For example, Firefox 3 will no longer support Windows 95, 98, and Me, and for the Mac OS X, versions 10.2 and earlier will not longer be supported. There will also be numerous changes made to the Document Object Model (DOM) in Gekko 1.9, which will affect developers more than end users.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:54 am
by anjanesh
How come Flock took all the trouble to make the UI changes but forgot to make the USERAGENT string different ?

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:17 pm
by matthijs
I personally use FF for its extensions, but do like:
-Opera for it's speed and session handling (browsing sessions)
-Safari for its speed and simplicity

I've heard many good things about Camino