What browser do you use?

I'm on Firefox - I switched when it first came out and I've never looked back. It's all personal preference though.

What do you use?

Hi,

I use Internet Explorer on my desktop. I use firefox on my old p2 laptop so I can surf wirelessly. The laptop is win98 so its one of the few new browsers that will run on it (64mb ram but wifi enabled).

Kevin

i only use opera.

after trying opera i never used firefox again.

On my pc opera is much much faster browsing the web(3 to 5 deconds faster sometimes more).

im on dial up dont know if that afects the browsing experience.

Firefox at home. I especially like the tab browsing.

IE at work, 'cos that is all there is.

Primarily Firefox but occasionally IE

Firefox

Firefox.

@ budz: There is Mozilla Suite and Firefox. They are different.

Regards.

I normally use Firefox, but am trying Netscape 8. If they ever fix extensions for it, it'll be great. But that's a BIG IF. Also like K-Meleon it's small fast and has a lot of good built in features.

Later!

Rog

Firefox on PC. Safari on Mac.

IE. No issues

Originally Posted by jimmalenko

IE. No issues

Ditto.

@Firefox users - what's the difference between tabbed browsing & IE tabs on my taskbar?

So then you just clutter up inside Firefox then ?

I have used Firefox for a couple of weeks to see what the fuss was about. Looks good (and no solid complaints from me), but I can say the same about IE. In other words, it didn't give my any reason to stop using IE.

Once you get used to tabs, it's hard to go back... it's simply an ergonomic thing.

With XP, once you have too many things in the task bar, it collapses (which makes hunting for the "next" thing you want to see frustrating).

With tabs in Firefox, I like how you can middle-click on a link to open up a new tab... and then have it open up in the background so your current page remains in focus. For the VideoHelp forums, for example, I go down an entire page (of the Latests Posts), middle-clicking all the threads I want to open and then load in the background.

By the time I'm ready to read the first thread, it's already loaded. And I can close tabs by middle-clicking on the tab as well --> which then automatically displays the next tab.

Yes, you can do this all in IE and in the taskbar... it just isn't as smooth or as slick. These small UI differences make a lot of difference in terms of the enjoyability of using Firefox.

Firefox, is of course, more secure than IE as well. I would have much more confidence with a newbie using my computer with Firefox rather than IE.

Regards.

he he he ...


I'm not an IE / Microsoft zealot so I'm not gonna argue the point .... much. I'll only argue that they get a fair hearing, just as I'll give (amd have already given) Firefox et al. a fair hearing.


The fact remains, that irregardless of what browser (and email client, for that matter) you use, if you show a bit of common-sense and some street-smarts, you should NEVER have any problems whatsoever. I don't give two figs about what browsers have what flaws - if you don't frequent websites of that*1 or that*2 nature, then you should never have any problems. Similarly, if you stopped blindly double-clicking on a zip file joe blow sends you with the message "here is the file", and actually take the time to evaluate whether the email is legit or not, you MAY just find that you don't have any problems there either. Then we extend that to websites asking to install DirectX or java applets - clicking "Yes" makes the box go away and the website load properly, but what else does it do to your computer I wonder ...


Flaws are generally only discovered when "undesirables" take it upon themselves to be a nuisance - if this is not generally the case, then we're giving Microsoft's internal depts a lot of undue credit . Common sense would dictate that if you want to be a nuisance, you generally try and target the largest audience possible, and/or the easiest method possible, or a combination of both.


Now while IE may be easier to find holes in as opposed to <insert rival browser here>, you cannot forget that it is also the most widely-used browser, since all those computer-illiterates use it because it comes standard with Windows. These same computer-illiterates are also then the perfect target, because they are computer illiterate, and don't have any concept of the monkey-business that is key-logging, remote takeover, etc etc. So we must consider that there's a far greater chance of people finding holes in IE since there's so many people trying to find them.


I liken the argument that Firefox is more secure to that of that MACs don't suffer the virus problems of PCs - just wait till either or both gain more than an infinitismal share of the market - then they too will spring to the attention of nuisance people, and with more people looking, there's likely to be more flaws found. I also liken it to the Nero debate - when there's so many more people using it, there's gonna be so many more complaints about it. On the flipside, there's also gonna be so many more people praising it. So I guess the context is what it's all about ...


So to summarise, there seems to be soooo many people willing to jump on or off a product because it does/doesn't protect them against themselves !

Show a bit of common sense, ppl



*1 pron
*2 crackz/serialz/warez