Which Browser do your prefer ??

Hey guys, i was just wondering which browser you find the best and mostly prefer??

I listed the 4 most known browsers...

Vote and tell me the reason WHY, and if you voted for num#6 please tell me which other browser your using, and if its good...

Firefox all the way for me. Dedicated search bar (with a range of
plugins to search different things), clever URL entry bar that doesn't
need full addresses ("snarkpit" gets you here), tabbed browsing (which
I used constantly), better security, seems to load websites quicker
(due to loading up the content before you images/sounds/etc... I
believe). Those are all the reasons I need to keep using it over IE :smile:

Might wanna add a dedicated option for Opera, which a fair few folk seem to use.

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[*] Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) (28)
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[*] Netscape (41)
</li>
[*] Mozilla (43)
</li>
[*] Opera (13)
</li>
[*] Safari (4)
</li>
[*] Lynx (13)
</li>
[*] Konqueror
- Unix-based Web browser, file manager, and universal viewer from KDE.</li>
[*] Amaya
- W3C's testbed browser.</li>
[*] Browse Happy

• site from The Web Standards Authority arguing that Microsoft Internet

Explorer is unsafe, and that people should be encouraged to download an
alternative browser.</li>
[*] Neoplanet
- offers diverse interface skins and customizable, sharable, content channels.</li>
[*] Galeon
- gecko-based web browzer for Gnome.</li>
[*] evolt.org Browser Archive
- vast collection of documented and undocumented web clients.</li>
[*] iCab
- web browser for Macintosh.</li>
[*] Crazy Browser
- freeware web browser with the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task.</li>
[*] NetCaptor
- tabbed browser that can also block pop-up ads, save time, enhance privacy, and allow faster navigation.</li>
[*] OmniWeb

• web browser for Mac OS X. Features integrated RSS, tabbed browsing,

and the ability to save sessions automatically, or as specific
workspaces.</li>
[*] Surf Monkey Kids Channel
- portal designed for kids. Offers links, bulletin boards, email, chat, downloadable kid-safe browser, and more.</li>
[*] Backward Compatibility Viewer
- view any page as any (previous) browser. Great way to see pages without having to see frames.</li>
[*] BrowserSpy
- provides detailed information about your particular browser.</li>
[*] Mosaic (9)
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[*] Phoenix

• redesign of the Mozilla browser component, but written using the XUL

user interface language and designed to be cross-platform</li>
[*] netomat
- non-linear browser that dialogues with the Internet to retrieve information as unmediated and independent in form.</li>
[*] SlimBrowser
- multiple site browser with pop-up killer, form filler, and history cleaner features.</li>
[*] Emacs@
[*] Ghostzilla
- a camouflage web browser for total screen privacy.</li>
[*] Phaseout

• browser that features an integrated search tool, a pop-up blocker,

tabbed browsing, and a preview bar that shows thumbnails of web pages
and their loading progress.</li>
[*] Smart Explorer

• offers a multi-window web browser that increases system performance

while enabling users to customize tool options and filter out
advertising.</li>
[*] CubicEye
- from 2ce, a browser interface built for interaction with multiple websites and software applications in a 3D environment.</li>
[*] ChiBrow
- allows the child to safely explore the Internet.</li>
[*] Klondike
- WML browser for Windows.</li>
[*] AWeb
- non-MUI W3 browser for the Amiga line of home computers. It supports frames, tables, Netscape extensions, and plug-ins.</li>
[*] iRider

• advanced multi-page web browser with a thumbnail navigation system

and the ability to download pages in the background while you work.</li>
[*] Net-Tamer (1)
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[*] Xanadu XP
- free downloadable browsing companion.</li>
[*] CrystalPort

• Web browser that offers skin support, custom search bar, and

information channels. Browser tabs allow users to browse multiple web
sites at the same time.</li>
[*] Auction Browser
- full-feature web browser offers extended tracking features for use with eBay or other online auctions.</li>
[*] Voyager

• MUI-based W3 browser for the Amiga line of home computers. It

supports frames, tables, and nearly all the Netscape extensions. Also
supports plug-ins.</li>
[*] MMM
- implemented in Caml Light using the CamlTk4 library.</li>
[*] Arachne
- graphical WWW browser for DOS compatibale operating systems.</li>
[*] WebCopy
- Retrieves remote files using the HTTP protocol. It can recurse HTML docs. Requires 'perl'.</li>
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Taken from Yahoo :smile:

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Firefox for exactly the same reasons as ReNo. I couldn't actually work
properly anymore without tabs, to the extent that I actually have
Portable Firefox on a USB key just in case.

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no competition

from my experience mozilla is definitely the best

Firefox. Since it's so foxy. I've used Arachne once on my old comp. The windows screwed itself up and I needed to surf so...

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Firefox for the reasons already mentioned.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

I affiliate with the others. Firefox. A friend told me within.

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Intresting, everyone likes mozilla, me too lol, but i accidentally
voted for IE and cannot re-vote, so, -1 for IE and +1 for mozilla, for
now: 10 votes to mozilla including me :biggrin:

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Firefox. It's good because I use it.

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IE all the way, for the thrill of not knowing if the next link i click will be my last.

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Firefox because all of the rest are spyware magnets, especially IE (aka Internet Exterminator).

IE all the way, for the thrill of not knowing if the next link i click will be my last.

Haha, best reason ever :biggrin:

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Firefox.... just much better (+ IE has inbuilt spyware... no joke)

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This is why I don't use IE, spyware...



Plus, I don't think I could survive without tabs, or my Modern Pinball
theme. PLus I use the Target Alert extension. It is a neat little one
where it tells you next to each link, if it is a website, a pdf, a zip,
etc. If anyone is interested I think I might make a thread with a link
and explaining how to install, plus its advantages.

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Firefox:

+ Can be optimized for broadband

+ Faster page rendering

+ Quality Extensions and Themes

+ Overall security: No ActiveX, Javascript & Java control, pop-up blocker

+ Live Bookmarks (= RSS-feeds)

Opera's not bad too, too bad it has too much bells & whistles.

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Firefox. Theres no point outlining reasons why; its benifets have been
mentioned countless times, and if you haven't got it now, you're
obviously not going to.

I once almost felt like crying because my friend didn't have a scroll
wheel on their mouse, and I had downloaded Fire Fox just for the
occasion because I just can't stand IE.

I wonder why Microsoft hasn't just adopted Firefox as their default
browser on their OS's. That'd be nice to see in the future, instead
having to open IE and download it (unless your a geek and keep it on a
usb drive :smile: ). I think that Microsoft created IE, and that's why they
refuse to have Firefox as their default browser.

Anywho, Firefox is just better in general for the following (quoted) reasons

+ Can be optimized for broadband

+ Faster page rendering

+ Quality Extensions and Themes

+ Overall security: No ActiveX, Javascript & Java control, pop-up blocker

+ Live Bookmarks (= RSS-feeds)

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FF all the way. Even Maddox says to change your s**tty browse to firefox :smile:

But still, I like the themes of it a lot, and the fact that it loads faster and is in every conceivable way much better than IE.

On the Opera topic; I used to use it, but there is too much
s**t. Half your screen is quick launchy type icons, and crap like
that.

I use Internet Explorer.

Because I have ALWAYS used it and it's what i know. I used FF there for a while, but windows defaults all point to IE and I use about 20 different computers a day.

I've never had a Virus or Spyware on my machine. So IE has been just fine for me.

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FF is good cuz of dl manager, easy to use, and the tabs.

Firefox and the others are bollocks. IE is the only browser with 100% access to the internet. The number of times you hear people with firefox bitchin' cus a website doesn't work.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Firefox and the others are bollocks. IE is the only browser with
100% access to the internet. The number of times you hear people with
firefox bitchin' cus a website doesn't work.

Myrk, that's probably one craziest thing I've heard in a looong time.... you sound like an ad for AOL or something :biggrin:

Firefox and the others are bollocks. IE is the only browser with
100% access to the internet. The number of times you hear people with
firefox bitchin' cus a website doesn't work.

Sadly this is vaguely true. Courtesy of ActiveX which by the way, is a
major source of problems and security flaws. Seems you can't have it
both ways. I use the "open in IE" extension for Firefox, so if anything
does come along I can just open up an IE window for that site. Having
said that, Firefox conforms to the web standards for browsing, whilst
IE doesn't, so it's probably a bad thing for any internet site to be IE
only. Also, why should an internet site be able to dictate which
browser I use and how I browse the web?

Just a thought.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer, because it works (okay, maybe it's a stupid reason). Mozilla Firefox is awesome but there are just too many sites that just won't load.

I'm guessing the reason IE works is because it's based on Mosaic by NCSA, in the same way MS-DOS is based on PC-DOS by IBM. As we all know, whenever Microsoft creates an original product it never works.

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Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

I dunno -- there are a couple sites I come across that require IE (like
Fileplanet) but usually I just switch over briefly to access the site
and then I'm back to FF. I just love the tabbed browsing and the
extensions.

Give me a link to one site that doesn't work in your FF and I'm sure there's a way you can fix it. I've NEVER ran across a site that "just didn't load" in Mozilla or FireFox.

Morphine, fileplanet works fine in Mozilla, try the site again.

There's not much to interpreting code. All the stuff that people say "doesn't work" are things that are Microsoft only ... it'd be the same as saying, "I drive GM vehicles because they're the only ones that support OnStar" (which I'm not sure is entirely true, it's just an example) ... the point is: so? Who the hell needs OnStar, as in: you'd be in great peril and unable to use the vehicle without it.

It's kind of the same with browsers. The features IE supports that nothing else supports are candy. Colored scroll bar, for example.

Use what you like, just everyone shut up about saying which is better. From a software, security, and dynamic ability, when it comes down to it: mozilla wins. If you like IE because of the interface, fine.

I just hate it when people argue this ridiculous subject as a matter of pride. They're quantifiable applications. One is better.

Of course, this doesn't even mention any of the other 1.5 trillion browsers out there.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Fileplanet's main page works fine. I didn't specify, but the
download accelerator/monitor that they use for downloads doesn't work
with FF. I have to switch to IE if I want to download from them.

Fileplanet's main page works fine. I didn't specify, but the
download accelerator/monitor that they use for downloads doesn't work
with FF. I have to switch to IE if I want to download from them.

That's odd. Try again. It seems to be fine for me. I don't use their
download manager and it seems they have a back-up system for people on
other browsers (could be javascript or something like that, or just a
clone of their old system). A lot of websites have started to do this,
and quite frankly I really don't think they should. It's like buying a
car where they say "You use unleaded petrol, but only when it's from
Shell garages and not Texaco or any other company".

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Ah -- once they tell me that that specific download plugin doesnt work
I always just switch over to IE. Is it just as fast DLing on
FF? I remember when they added the new download manager, it was
blazing fast. Downloads at 3-4 MBPS.

Most of the problems with websites in Firefox are these

• Wrong lay-out (due to faulty/unofficial CSS or HTML)

• Functions not working because you need sloppy ActiveX

For the people who want to use firefox, but also want everything to work immediately, I can suggest this extension:

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

It adds a right click-option in firefox called "Open in IE". No time lost :smile:

http://ieview.mozdev.org/screenshots/linkshot.png

You can even define sites that should ?lways be opened in IE.

http://ieview.mozdev.org/screenshots/addmenu-shot.png

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Crono</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Give me a link to one site that doesn't work in your FF and I'm sure there's a way you can fix it. I've NEVER ran across a site that "just didn't load" in Mozilla or FireFox.
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/me smashes the argument.

Snarkpit didn't work with firefox for 3 days. Lep had to code loads of wierd stuff because firefox has a wierd incapability to do frames and boarders- for some reason it likes to resize them all in crazy ways. Also the forum didn't work.

Sure firefox probably has no errors ever and loads pages 0.03 seconds quicker or some crap, but to be honest I can't be bothered to deal with the hassle. All the features of Firefox are in IE7 anyway.

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Yo thanks forceflow, i didnt know such thing...THanks dude :biggrin:

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Myrk:

Interesting you should mention IE7. I looked at this a bit, but if you
look a little closely, not only is IE7 trying to play catch-up to
another browser, but there are several bits missing (I think it
doesn't have extensions in the same easy manner as firefox, but I could
be wrong). Also, it's interesting to note some of the campaigning which
has been done for IE7. They claimed that adding search engines to the
search bar was very simple, and something you couldn't do in Firefox,
which is just plain wrong.

/looks at list of twenty search engines for search box

Certain FF functions I couldn't do without - mostly extensions.
Scrapbook, All-in-one sidebar, Mouse gestures, FoxyTunes etc. IE7 may
have tabbed browsing, but I wouldn't be surprised if when it's released
(which is a fair way away), I stick with FF.

I've also found that using FF helps a little with web coding. If it
doesn't work in FF, there's been a problem on my part, not FF's. I'm
not saying "Lep must be a lousy coder" or anything like that - far from
it, I wish I could code a site like the SnarkPit, but when IE is
setting the standards on its own instead of the normal ones which are
supposed to allow all browsers to access a site, things may well go
wrong.

Anyway, as usual, just IMHO. :smile:

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Yeah, its nice being able to press cntrl+u to view source in FF.

Also -- the javascript console is pretty snazzy for debugging.

Who is the mysterious person who voted other\not listed without posting his reason ?? :biggrin:

Morphine, was that person a...a...ZOMBIE ??!

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Haha, actually I hadn't voted until just now. I voted FF.

I have been basically 100% dedicated to IE, its that simple. I however have almost always been on broadband. Years ago I had 56k, and had a browser that only loaded text but cannot recall its name. Does anyone suggest a browser that still does this? For many sites, the pictures are an annoyance I can live without now that I am once more on 56k.

For the record, I am not really crazy about browsers who claim speed but only cache pictures. If the picture was cached, it probably doesn't need to be seen at all again.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

There's probably an extension for Firefox. :biggrin:

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But FF has some bugs, e.g.: If you have 2 tabs open, you cant copy and
paste data from tab 1 to tab 2...one stupid major problem here..

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Interesting. Seems to work for me (I'm assuming you mean in forms etc). Which version are you using? It all works fine in 1.0.7

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Hmmm... The Ctrl C and Ctrl V works fine for me, including when I use
the "copy" function from the right-click menu. There doesn't appear to
be a paste function in the right-click menu though. Is that what you're
missing? Other than that, the only things I can suggest are the
Mozillazine forums and Bugzilla. I think they're concentrating on 1.5
rather than bug fixes at the moment though.

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i use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V ... but maybe ill just wait for the new verison :biggrin:

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Mozilla, Netscape, and Firefox are the same browsers (at heart).

Myrk, I said now. There is a difference between Mozilla and Firefox, taking that Firefox didn't become non-beta-mozilla until last year. (Just like about three years ago is when Mozilla became non-beta-netscape ... maybe four or five years, actually)

Underdog, I'm not sure about IE, it can probably be done, but I know in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape that you CAN turn images off ... completley. That'd solve your problem, for sure.

I'm sure browsers now have an image size limit. Like you could say "don't download any image that's over 50K" or something like that. Not sure though.

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Crono said:
Underdog, I'm not sure about IE, it can probably be done, but I know in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape that you CAN turn images off ... completley. That'd solve your problem, for sure.

Back in 98/99 images were not as big a concern cause people seemed to understand 56k. I can honestly claim that even i forgot about them over the years since I have gotten DSL. Perhaps this is payback for not championing the lesser connections amongst us I don't know. I have not actually gotten used to 56k again, but I cry a bit less at night now. I still have my DSL modem sitting here beside me. I look at it fondly from time to time.

Purgatory, what a suck ass concept.

Thanks Crono. I will look into FF or Mozilla.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Mozilla is FF guys. FF is made by Mozilla (company).

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Mozilla is also the name of a browser they released. Netscape 7 up is based on that.

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Windows, FireFox and Mozilla are NOT the same browser. They have the same core ... just like Netscape, but they have a different ... shell, I guess you could call it.

As I said before it went like this:

Netscape (FULL) -> Mozilla (Beta-Netscape) -> Mozilla (FULL) -> FireFox (Beta-Mozilla) -> FireFox (FULL) -> Netscape (Mozilla-Base).

They aren't the same though. There are an ass load of features in mozilla that aren't in firefox. Yes, I use them.

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