10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers 72
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner looks beyond Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and IE to uncover 10 alternative browsers that offer specialized advantages for 3-D searching, social networking, easy scriptability, powerful page manipulation, and the like. Each provides a targeted browsing environment, enabling users to browse Web tables into spreadsheets, browse leaner, browser in text, browse socially, browse musically, or browse smarter on the Mac. 'A purist might object that these hybrids are not much different from a standard browser with extra plug-ins. There's some truth to this, but not always — some of the unique capabilities can only be done deep inside the software. In any case, the job of parsing the terms and creating an exact definition of the Web browser isn't as much fun as embracing the idea that there are dozens of alternatives.'"
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Re:How about a "Facebook Firewall" browser? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:How about a "Facebook Firewall" browser? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Dillo (Score:1, Informative)
Re:How about a "Facebook Firewall" browser? (Score:5, Informative)
It used to, but it doesn't any more. Now you have to, at minimum, block static.ak.connect.facebook.com as well. I've installed AdBlockPro today to take care of it in a more sweeping way.
But I think David Emery was wanting a generalisation and just used Facebook as an example. I don't know how well common sites would work with external content blocked - whitelisting would be necessary at least for things like jquery.
Re:Dillo (Score:5, Informative)
Of course you can just wget something and even make scripts to only get the text out of it, but then you'd just be "reading" the internet, which isn't enough for some things. Dillo is a much more advanced Links.
Re:How about a "Facebook Firewall" browser? (Score:2, Informative)
The Ghostery [ghostery.com] addon also blocks Facebook and most other tracking. IME, has worked invisibly; it's never stopped a webpage from working normally.
Re:No mention of Links? (Score:3, Informative)
No mention of links, but they do mention its predecessor lynx in the article.
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