What browser do you use?

What browser do you use?

Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Myrk- on Tue Mar 16th 2004 at 11:11pm
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What browsers do you guys use to view the internet?
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Mar 16th 2004 at 11:13pm
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I use Firefox, but meh, Mozilla is close enough. Though I do use IE6 when Firefox decides not to display a page the way it was meant to be.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Myrk- on Tue Mar 16th 2004 at 11:15pm
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is Firefox just a warped version of Mozilla then?
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Mar 16th 2004 at 11:16pm
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Sort of, it's developed by the same people at least.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by scary_jeff on Tue Mar 16th 2004 at 11:43pm
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It's a smoother and more rounded version I think. I use it all the time - I now find using public computers with IE only annoying because I miss having some of the features of mozilla, particularly the tabbed browsing.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Vash on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 12:16am
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I like IE because I am use to the setup, and change makes me "rawr!11" all over the place.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Leperous on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 12:20am
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Mozilla is b0rked by my new XP themeing anyway, and how could you not love the IE banter when it looks like this?

User posted image
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 12:38am
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I mainly use IE but I do also use firefox when I want to look at something I dont want my mum to know I've looked at cos she dont know its installed or what it is.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 5:29am
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I use Firefox, but meh, Mozilla is close enough. Though I do use IE6 when Firefox decides not to display a page the way it was meant to be.
You mean when people don't follow W3 standards? lol.

Also, Lep if you really wanted you could make an entire custom skin for Mozilla, you can for IE as well, but it's just easier with Mozilla.

My main grabbag for Mozilla is that well, it's faster. In that I notice a speed difference when using it (So have other people I've turned to it). I LOVE the mail client. and the SSH utilities, but you know me, I'm a Linux kind of guy....don't say it, I'll kill you lol. And don't say "but I have to now" because I mentioned it . . . . :smile:

However, Mozilla's predicesor, Netscape, has turned to utter s**t through commercialization. Also, wasn't FireFox/FireBird, at some point, the beta of the next version of Mozilla?
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 5:32am
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gimpinthesink said:
I mainly use IE but I do also use firefox when I want to look at something I dont want my mum to know I've looked at cos she dont know its installed or what it is.
Sneaky little bastard :lol:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Forceflow on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 7:02am
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I'm using Firefox, and IE when pages b0rk up.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 10:08am
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Yeah firefox and firebird are supposed to be beta quality technology previews for mozilla, but they seem more like release candidate quality than beta quality to me. I'm pretty sure there is an IE6 skin for firefox. I don't see ahything on that screenshot that you can't have with firefox - google search and customisable popup blocking are already there without installing a third party plugin. You can also easily block banner adds in firefox, which is good because now some sites don't have any adverts for me :smile:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 2:31pm
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I'm the only one using opera... I'm ever so lonely.

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Re: What browser do you use? Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 3:14pm
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Things don't align properly for me in mozilla firefox. Opera rules! :biggrin:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Wild Card on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 4:01pm
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I dont have internet on MY computer. And I do everything on my computer... except browse the net. Me puts it down on number 6 :biggrin:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Monqui on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 5:32pm
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Allright- firefox users- do you know of ANY way to get rid of the annoying "circular scrolly dealy thing" that pops up when you click the middle mouse button? I dug around for a while in the settings, but couldn't find anything on it (I use that button to activate my mouse-guestures and to open pages in new tabs- and it's incredibly annoying trying to do a mouse guesture while the page flies up and down).

Anyone even know what I'm talking about?
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 7:36pm
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That's a Windows setting... Try going to your mouse properties and "re-programming" that button. Mozilla and Firefox don't have any button programming.... but that would be cool if they did..
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by asterix_vader on Wed Mar 17th 2004 at 11:45pm
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hey! i cant vote again! :razz:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 2:58am
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I use Epiphany, which is the GNOME (Linux, you clods :razz: ) browser. It uses Mozilla's Gocko rendering engine.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Monqui on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 5:33am
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No... The function isn't windows dependant... At least I don't think so. I was using mozilla 1.5 with the same bindings, and the damn thing never showed up...

I'll double check though when I get back to school though...
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 6:55am
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Yeah, is it the middle mouse thing? Like it brings up a vertical arrow and you just move the mouse to scroll up and down? If so, that's configured in Windows. It doesn't work in Mozilla 1.5 or 1.6 for that matter, which is fine by me ... I hate that damn scroll crap, page down works best for me :smile: .

I'm not too fond of the GNOME Desktop. I've come to accept KDE ... but GNOME just bugs me ... :biggrin:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 7:59am
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insert holy war

Actually, I use Xfce more than GNOME, but Xfce is like GNOME light.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 8:25am
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insert holy war

Actually, I use Xfce more than GNOME, but Xfce is like GNOME light.
Penguins Unite!

Anyway. I usually use the flat Linux/Unix interface. Unless I need a window for some reason.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 8:33am
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You mean you don't run X at all? What, so are you viewing this in lynx or something? :smile:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 8:37am
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No, I have more then one computer and a laptop :biggrin:

This computer, at the moment, I have running ... Windows, I'm sorry. It's just so I can play games. I'll be putting Gentoo and WhineX on it at some point.

And no, I don't use lynx lol.
I mean for general use of my Linux machine, I use it in command line mode. (and mine actually had a command line that runs X, it's pretty cool. it's text with a really nice background :smile: Good 'Ol SuSE)

Also, on my Linux box X decided to stop working ... I honestly can't figure out what happened, but I haven't had a whole lot of time to mess with it.
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 8:42am
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SSH, all the way! :smile:
Re: What browser do you use? Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th 2004 at 8:51am
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Yep.

However, I mostly use that for loging into my school ... and when checking my email with

Mozilla Mail Client

"Thanks, No, leave the check over there"

... anyway.