Browser

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:17:47AM -0500, Daniel Lewis wrote:
>> Im running Free BSD 8.2 and was wondering whats a good web browser for
>> version 8.2?
>> Where and how would we install it? ( Im really new to unix)
>
> There are at least as many answers to this as there are browsers, and
> probably quite a few more answers than that.
>
> For minimalist browsers in the X Window System environment, I quite like
> Surf.
>
> For its incredibly rich extension system, I use Firefox (and extensions
> such as Pentadactyl, Perspectives, HTTPS Everywhere, and Scrapbook).
>
> For a combination of excellent GUI design, smooth built-in features, and
> stability (relative to Firefox), Chromium is a good choice (that's the
> open source project behind Google Chrome).
>
> There are others as well.  Others have already mentioned Epiphany,
> Midori, and Opera.  Lynx and Links are a couple more console-based
> browsers.

www/links also has a graphic mode (-g) which can be quite useful.