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Thank God.

i use firefox even thou I usually like what google has released but meh firefox ftw but i can't wait till they fix up linux gpu accelleration support i think thatg was sheduled for firefox 7

I generally prefer Firefox as a browser, but find Chromium a lot faster.
Having said that, I think Firefox is more secure and gives me greater control over Web-content and filtering. The add-ons particularly Web Of Trust give it the edge. I do sometimes use Chromium to get to a trusted website quicker though if the weather is affecting my Internet connection, but Firefox for preference.

Chromium has a Web Of Trust extension also.

I have ran Chromium alongside Firefox on and off since Chromium first came out and C is fast, there is no doubt about that but, it always, always has a web page somewhere that is has problems with. Firefox today has no such problem. It simply works. I personally think it feels a little bloated now and should be streamlined a bit to help speed it up but, that's just me.
I used to run Opera all the time but, it too started to have the odd web page it would not like and that is no use for me because both at home and at work I use the browser a lot and if a browser has an annoying thing like some pages it will not load or will not load properly then that is like having an itch you can't scratch.

Firefox 6 hit ubuntu and Linux mint repo's 3 days ago.

Best release yet in my book.

And for those who like it Firefox 7 beta is out as well.

If I read this right, Firefox 7 is planed for release to a distro near you in 4 months.

6 brings REAL time GPU acceleration to the table finally.

7 is said to fine tune this a tad more and offer flash / HTML 5 support.

firefox nightly currently at 9.0 get it now via launchpad ppa


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla ... ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla ... ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1 Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~natty Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~maverick Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~lucid

gjringo wrote:firefox nightly currently at 9.0 get it now via launchpad ppa


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla ... ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla ... ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1 Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~natty Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~maverick Chris Coulson (2011-08-19)
firefox-trunk 9.0~a1~hg20110818r75479+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~lucid

Only downside, none of my favorite plug-ins work with it yet lol.