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LogicalDrm
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Are there any other than Firefox? Which ones I should try out? I need flash support (sadly, for YT and Twitch).

 

I was thinking that now I have Firefox as my main broser and Opera as 2nd. But since Opera isn't open source and if I would change away from Firefox but keep open source, what options there are. In Linux I use Chromium as 2nd browser and with S2 I got Dolphin. IE isn't, nor Chrome (which has bunch of annoying stuff anyway).

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Are there any other than Firefox? Which ones I should try out? I need flash support (sadly, for YT and Twitch).

 

I was thinking that now I have Firefox as my main broser and Opera as 2nd. But since Opera isn't open source and if I would change away from Firefox but keep open source, what options there are. In Linux I use Chromium as 2nd browser and with S2 I got Dolphin. IE isn't, nor Chrome (which has bunch of annoying stuff anyway).

I'm not sure if you can get it, but you've got Midori which is an open source alternative to safari!

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konqueror comes to my mind, but i don't have any experience with it so i can't sincerely recommend it

 

Chrome is open source. What you on about?

chrome is not open source

it's based on chromium, which is open source, but the different stuff added by google is not open

also, everytime i see a message of you i have to stare at your image for some seconds

i think i love you

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Just a little FYI.

 

Chrome isn't based on Chromium - in fact, Chrome came first (or around the same time). Google later (or simultaneously) released a significant portion of Chrome as open-source code, aka Chromium. Chromium is still a very feature-rich browser. 

 

e: Just checked. Chrome launched in September 2008, with Chromium being released at the same time, the intention being allowing others to create browsers based off of Chromium. 

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Any reason for it having to be Open Source? (I am just curious really, feel free to tell me to fudge off)

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Just a little FYI.

 

Chrome isn't based on Chromium - in fact, Chrome came first (or around the same time). Google later (or simultaneously) released a significant portion of Chrome as open-source code, aka Chromium. Chromium is still a very feature-rich browser. 

 

e: Just checked. Chrome launched in September 2008, with Chromium being released at the same time, the intention being allowing others to create browsers based off of Chromium. 

 

Seems like Wikipedia isn't really accurate conserning this. Chromium is fully open source and is the source code Google released after Chrome launch. Chrome isn't open source but its newer releases are based on Chromium.

 

I'll continue with Chromium on Ubuntu but I'll give Konqueror a try if it has Linux version.

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Any reason for it having to be Open Source? (I am just curious really, feel free to tell me to fudge off)

 

Nothing really. I was just thinking if there is any options for Firefox. So if I want to change away from Firefox and continue with open source browser... Chromium being so close to Chrome I'm not really interested of keeping it.

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