Some people have said that we should have used a stock build from Mozilla. Using the "wrong" browser can lead to a lot of unnecessary headaches, wasted productivity, and even lost data. So which browser is the best for your Linux computer?

Tech Stuff - Browser ID Strings (a. User Agent ID)Browser ID (User- Agent) Strings. This page was getting big - we're talking big. So we split the mobile things onto a separate page. We started these pages with four strings because we had never seen a comprehensive list anywhere.

Nominally RFC 1. 94. RFC 2. 06. 8 define them (get RFCs) but only as an afterthought (the RFCs define HTTP 1. Browser IDs, more correctly User Agent IDs, appear, among other places, as the environmental variable HTTP. You need this information to make the fewest checks possible for the browser environment or to optimise the display or .. And if you want to check your browser string use our cheap trick page.

The rules are basically the same as flirting with someone new, except that you already know your partner’s preferences and boundaries. You don’t have to resort to. Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of May 2017, it is the oldest web browser still in general. Make Tech Easier is a leading technology site that is dedicated to produce great how-to, tips and tricks and cool software review.

New Stuff: It's been a very long time since the last update. Frankly, it seemed pretty pointless just updating the version numbers of chrome and FF and Opera which is what has mostly happened over the last couple of years. Not a lot of innovation was happening. And FF was slowly dying on the vine. Imagine our surprise (and delight) when we had to add 4 new browsers at this update. Most are just UI stuff (OK it's still innovation) on top of Webkit.

Then we added brave which intercepts and replaces embedded adverts with its own (they say its better for the publisher and more secure - are they brave (or crazy) or what). Finally, we added Palemoon a number of years ago as a windows only FF optimization. The project seems to have changed significantly and now runs on *nix and windows and has its own rendering engine (Goanna). Maybe there is an alternative to the deadly boring rise of chrome and edge after all.

In “The Assistant Economy,” Dissent Magazine analyzes the privileged and idiosyncratic career path of “personal assistants” who serve a single high-profile. The browser field is far more crowded than many users realize -- and Linux offers a variety of good choices. Check out Jack Wallen's list of 10 solid browsers for.

We're going to look some more at this project. Department of useless stuff: Anyone know the difference between Open Mini and Mobile.. One of our smart readers responded with a link to Opera's site which says - roughly - that Opera Mobile is a real browser that can directly access the web - just like regular Opera and is designed for smartphones whereas Opera Mini is a cut- down browser that needs an Opera server and is typically used on feature phones. So there you go. As always thanks to everyone who took the time to supply a string - even if we didn't use it. The end of an era: The last version of Netscape - the browser that started the modern browser business is no more. Netscape is dead - long live Netscape (with appropriate shudders at the memory of NS 4.

Getting the Strings for Nefarious Purposes (and in Other Formats)Note: The title is our normal (and puerile) attempt at humor. Plenty of folk want to use the strings for sensible and useful reasons. But that would make a boring title. You are perfectly at liberty to use the strings for any purpose you choose.

We regularly get asked for these strings in other formats - mostly without all our pathetic attempts at humor in the explanations. We had studiously avoided doing anything because it smelled, vaguely, of work. Then we got an email from Marc Gray who suggested that we use a simple regular expression and was even kind enough to supply it. Marc provided a php script, which we enclose below (with a minor correction supplied by Dave Thomas) for those to whom it may be a more sensible solution (a formatted list based on this script is available here, credits and their script at the foot of the page).

We slapped together a few lines of Javascript (you can't actually code in JS you can only slap things together - doubtless google would disagree) based on his idea so if you light the blue touch paper by clicking the button below, this page will disppear (after about 1. Simply save the resulting page and hack out anything that looks vaguely HTML'ish (the strings are enclosed in < p class=.

We are progressively going to add the feature on a browser- by- browser basis for your delight, edification and titillation. To restore the page to its full glory(!) just hit your page refresh button.

Note: We removed a bunch of annoying < br /> tags that were lying around inside the browser strings from our old page formatting method. Now the spec list just leaves us with a feeling of inferiority (they are smarter than we are) and it takes about 6 hours to get the specs from these horrible 'graphic- overkill' mobile supplier web sites. So we stopped. For browser historians: We thought that Mosaic was the original browser. As usual we were wrong. James Butler took the time to drop us an email - thanks: Before there was NSCA's Mosaic there were several other browsers capable of interpreting HTML, including Erwise and Viola, both of which I used before the Andreeson project issued any software.

Although primarily for viewing SGML, both of those browsers did a pretty good job of parsing the very basic HTML commands that Mr. Berners- Lee published as he developed his SGML subset (HTML). For serious study of the topic Johnathan Mc.

Cormack sent this link to an arstechnica article on the early web browsers. Fascinating stuff. If your browser string is NOT here please take a moment and click here then mail us the result (if you are using an exotic browser send us the URL of where to get it). We are now crediting the supplier of each string or answer individually as a homage to all those folks who take the time as thousands of you have done over the years.

Many thanks for helping ourselves. We have added some info about changing UA strings which unless you have to do it is, we think, a Very Bad Thing. Trial version downloadable. No visible price information. Science Traveller International 1. X/1. 0. Explanation: 1. X on Windows something - pretty descriptive string.

String from Jonathan Mc. Cormack - thanks.

A tiny - we're talking 7. Little Shop Of Horrors Cracked Servers on this page. K download - browser for Windows.

Supports Style sheets but no JS we suspect. Freeware. Mozilla/3.

Explanation: Act 1. String from Anita O'Brien - thanks.

The W3. C's own hosted browser and authoring tool project, another Open Source project. Runs on Windows and Linux/Unix.

Pretty quirky the last time we downloaded it (long time ago). Explanation: Amaya 9. SUSE 1. 0. String from Ted King - thanks.

Explanation: Amaya 9. SMP, Gtk+ 2 interface (April 2. String from Lucas Lommer - and yeah its still quirky - thanks. Explanation: Amaya 9. String from Peter Booth who tells us its still pretty quirky - thanks. Explanation: Amaya 6.

String from Jens T. Shareware browser for all you Amiga/Morphos fans. Amiga. Voyager/3. Morph. OS/PPC native)Explanation: Amiga. Voyager 3. 4. 4 on a Power. PC? String from poeml ? This should only appear on FTP sites and is a Linux software update tool used on many distributions.

Originally exclusive to Debian - now widely available and used on multiple distributions. No link is provided since each distribution has its own version which is bundled with the release. Debian APT- HTTP/1. Explanation: Ap- get 0. Ubuntu 1. 2. 1. 0. String from Saikrishna Arcot - thanks.

Ubuntu APT- HTTP/1. Explanation: Ap- get 0. Linux Mint 8. String from Jake Wasdin - thanks. Ubuntu APT- HTTP/1.

Explanation: Ap- get 1. Ubuntu Edgy Eft's. String from Jake Wasdin - thanks. This a browser for DOS (honest) that apparently even plays movies. Gotta love it. x. Chaos. From Ryan Jones - thanks.

A QT based minimal browser based on Web. Kit. Windows and *nix. Mozilla/5. 0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5. US) Apple. Web. Kit/5. KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/4. Arora/0. 3 (Change: 2.

Explanation: Arora 0. XP. String from Jake Wasdin - thanks. Mozilla/5. 0 (X1. U; Linux; en- US) Apple. Web. Kit/5. 23. 1. KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/4.

Arora/0. 2 (Change: 0 )Explanation: Arora 0. Hardy. String from Jake Wasdin - thanks. A fast (they say) kinda tabbed version of MSIE. Free forever (they say). Mozilla/4. 0 (compatible; MSIE 7. Windows NT 5. 1; Avant Browser.

Avant Browser; . NET CLR 1. NET CLR 1. 1. 4. 32. Media Center PC 4. NET CLR 2. 0. 5. 07. NET CLR 3. 0. 0. 45.

Explanation: Avant Browser on MS Media Center PC (XP with SP2) and multiple . NET frameworks. String from R. Tinker - thanks. Mozilla/4.

MSIE 6. 0; Windows NT 5. NET CLR 1. 1. 4. 32. FDM)Explanation: Avant Browser (MSIE 6 clone) on XP with SP2 and .