The very fast QupZilla web browser put to the test
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Apart from the usual top dogs, Firefox and Chromium, an overwhelming number of web browsers exist for Linux. Some of them satisfy rather unusual needs, such as pure text representation of sites, which is what Lynx and ELinks are all about. If you find Firefox too bloated and Chrome too intrusive, however, give the newcomer QupZilla a whirl.
Although the QupZilla project is a mere three years old, binary packages are already available in many software repositories. You can install the browser with a few clicks in Mageia, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux from the official software repository. The current version is available precompiled on the project website.
After a successful install, you can launch the browser from the HUD. QupZilla starts up quickly and leads you to an unobtrusive startup screen reminiscent of Firefox (Figure 1); however, it relies on the DuckDuckGo search engine instead of NSA-friendly Google.
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