Konqueror is a file manager as well as a Web browser and helps bring together many
features of the KDE desktop.
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Firefox??”Being touted as Mozilla??™s next-generation browser, Firefox is designed to be
fast, efficient, and safe for Web browsing.
Opera??”A commercial application that runs on many small devices such as mobile
phones or the Nokia Linux??“based Internet Tablet, this browser is available for free on
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
links, lynx, and w3m??”If you are in a text-based environment (operating from the
shell), these are among several text-based Web browsers you can try out.
Some streamlined Linux versions, such as Damn Small Linux, include a very lightweight
Web browser called dillo (www.dillo.org). Although its small size (only about 350KB
binary) comes with some limitations (such as limited font and internationalization support), dillo is a
good choice for displaying basic HTML on handheld devices and mini Linux distributions. Another
small-footprint browser is minimo (www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/), short for mini-Mozilla.
The following sections describe Mozilla, Firefox, and some text-based Web browsers that are available
with many Linux systems.
Exploring the Mozilla Suite
During the early 1990s, Netscape Navigator was the most popular Web browser.
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