Browsers

**Yudraciell** · March 30th, 2013

Firefox is outdated(according to my school and like 4 other sites telling me to update my browser the the latest FF), and I was wondering what would be a good alternitive

I looked at Chromanium (looks like a repackaged google chrome), but like this firefox is seems repackaged and specificically engineered for this version of ubuntu.

anyways onto the meat....Would using the version of google chrome have any negitive affects on the system, and if so how does one remove programs manually from ubuntu

(currently using 12.04 x64)

**carl4926** · March 30th, 2013

Plenty of people use chrome
Me included

**Cheesemill** · March 30th, 2013

Have you been updating your system?

12.04 currently has Firefox version 19 which is the latest version available. The only reason you are still using an older version would be if you haven't been updating your system on a regular basis.

**Frogs Hair** · March 30th, 2013

Chrome , Iron , Dragon and some others are actually repackaged versions of Chromium .

**Yudraciell** · March 30th, 2013

Originally Posted by Cheesemill

Have you been updating your system?

12.04 currently has Firefox version 19 which is the latest version available. The only reason you are still using an older version would be if you haven't been updating your system on a regular basis.

Everyday I check and update. I just find it weird some websites dont let me use its features because of an "incompatable browser"

**ManamiVixen** · March 30th, 2013

The sites you are trying to access are likely "Internet Explorer" only sites or sites that only cater to Windows based browsers.

**glln0v** · March 30th, 2013

Originally Posted by Yudraciell

Everyday I check and update. I just find it weird some websites dont let me use its features because of an "incompatable browser"

It's actually more likely that the website is incompatible with a standard's based web-browser. I run into this occasionally. Either the people running the website are not following the standards or they choose to do things their own way. Either way the error is on their part and no fault of Firefox.

See this article here: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013...bytes-of-data/

Firefox was the only browser immune to the attack because Firefox was the only browser that implemented the standard that was put forth. All the other browsers were not standards compliant, which caused them to be vulnerable to exploit with this attack.

I've tried all the other browsers. I always ended up coming back to firefox. I think it is pro-community to use Firefox also because of its standards compliance.