Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Enrich your browsing experience under Ubuntu

Ubuntu now is not just geek box. Web developer also can be more convenient using it by installing various browser in it.
Not less than 4 browsers you can install:

1. Firefox
no doubt, this is de facto browser, most widely used among Ubuntu user, as it installed by default.

2. Opera

Eventhough Opera market share is not as big as Firefox, this browser has certain fanatic fans. Deliver a unique render style, browsing using Opera give a different feel.
To install, go to www.opera.com linux download section. Select Ubuntu deb package. Double click downloaded deb file, follow the installation instruction. Otherwise, you may follow instruction by ubuntu forum

3. Internet Explorer

IE is the most widely used, as it come preinstalled with the OS that ruled PC user for years.
To install, follow instruction from my previous post.

4. Safari
Mac fans is unable to accept other browser, but safari. Run on wine, with some display issue, Safari can still shows its beauty. As it run on Wine emulator, simply download safari installation file, then run it.

All browsers above, only Firefox and Opera is running natively, while two others are emulated from Windows version. Meaning you have Wine installed properly before proceed to install them.
Overall, all browsers does have own characteristic and render style that a web developer should have installed them all.

4 comments:

Albert Jo said...

I've use fire fox and opera...fire fox is good but to much use memory on cpu,so now i prever use opera 9.0...Never use Safari before :P visit my blog too ok http://albert-jo.blogspot.com

says said...

previously not much people know more browser on linux. I encourage people to try new experience using other browser :)
thanks for your comment

Albert Jo said...

can safari work on XP??

says said...

of course can. It's a windows-compatible EXE installer, should work fine on XP and Vista as well