Chromium vs Firefox

**Christopher** · July 24th, 2014

sudo apt-get install opera, would this be the correct command to installing the newest version of Opera? Thanks in advance.

**Gyokuro** · July 24th, 2014

Firefox/Iceweasel user here -

1.) a lot of Add-ons
2.) I like it
3.) use it everyday

and chromium only for certain sites. The only closed source browser I have ever used was IE on Windows and I will not change firefox/iceweasel for any other browser - simply I do not care enough about the other browsers and I do not care about plugins - if a certain site requires plugins then I'm not interested anymore (youtube videos are working with VLC so I'm a happy without flash) - HTML5 is good but some of it's multimedia features are questionable.

**deadflowr** · July 24th, 2014

Originally Posted by Christopher

sudo apt-get install opera, would this be the correct command to installing the newest version of Opera? Thanks in advance.

It would be if opera was in any repo you have, added or otherwise.

For all I know, to get the newest opera you would need to go to opera's web site and download the .deb file.
Which should be in your downloads folder.
Simply double-click to open the installer program.

Opera ,like google-chrome, will add it's repo to your sources.list.
When it does add the repo you will then on be able to keep it up-to-date with all other packages using apt-get update/upgrade or the update manager/synaptic/pick-a-gui.

Like google-chrome, I am sure there is some method to add the repo's via wget or some way like that, but downloading the .deb file is just plain easier.

**vasa1** · July 24th, 2014

Originally Posted by deadflowr

..., but downloading the .deb file is just plain easier.

That's how I install google chrome; just a few clicks.

But keep in mind the latest Opera for Linux is currently a developer's version and not a conventional "stable" version.

**grumblebum2** · July 25th, 2014

Originally Posted by Christopher

sudo apt-get install opera, would this be the correct command to installing the newest version of Opera? Thanks in advance.

The latest developer version (ie using webkit like chrome) works quite well and can be downloaded from HERE
When you install the deb it will add a ppa for updates.

If you have google-chrome installed it will pickup the flash plugin from /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

**Christopher** · July 25th, 2014

Thank you everyone, i installed Google Chrome. I tried the newest version of Opera, but for some reason while watching Youtube videos the people doing whatever video i was watching had a blue skin tone lol. So i installed Chrome & all is good.