Top 5 Firefox alternatives for Linux

I’m a huge fan of Firefox, but it just doesn’t run well on my EEE PC (which runs Ubuntu Linux). Because of this, I’ve been researching alternate web browsers that run in Linux.

1. Epiphany is a browser for the GNOME desktop environment and is at the top of my list for great alternatives to Firefox. It’s based on Galeon, the original Gecko-based lightweight browser. Epiphany can use Gecko or Webkit for rendering, and is very fast and light on resources. It also supports extensions for things like ad blocking and greasemonkey scripts, and it has a great bookmarking system.
2. Opera is a closed-source browser and Internet suite. It’s fast, follows standards well, and supports a bunch of extra things like email, bit-torrent, and IRC. I’ve run Opera Mini on my Blackberry Pearl for a while now, and I almost switched over to Opera on my desktop a while ago when Firefox 3 was nearly unusable on my PC for a brief amount of time.  In addition to running on Linux, it runs on Mac and Unix, and there are other versions of it for mobile devices. Opera is definitely a decent choice for a Firefox alternative.
3. Konquror is part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE). It’s also a very nice file manager. Konqueror is comparable in speed to the main contenders in the web browser race, and (so far) the only one I’ve found that could import bookmarks from Firefox 3. This might be the best option for someone already using KDE, since it integrates so well into the desktop environment.
4. Dillo is a very lightweight web browser. Coming in at around 350kb, it’s small, fast, and perfect for underpowered systems. With limited support for CSS and javascript, however, this browser might not be powerful enough for regular use.
5. Midori is a fast GTK+/Webkit-powered web browser. It resembles Firefox, and has most of the basic features a web browser needs. Nothing really stands out about it, especially compared to Epiphany, but if you want webkit in GNOME then you could certainly do worse than Midori.

I’m sticking with Firefox on my dual-boot desktop PC, of course, but I’ve been playing around with the above browsers on my little EEE 900. Opera has a strange bug where it freaks out whenever I try to log into my university wifi connection (you’re re-routed to a login page after connecting to the open wifi and trying to open a page, and I think there might be some mix-up with the certificates that scares Opera), and Epiphany can’t (last I checked) import Firefox 3 bookmarks (it can import from earlier versions of Firefox), but other than those two problems Epiphany and Opera look like my best choices. Hopefully this list is helpful to anyone else out there in a similar situation.