Just Curious What All of them use..

Well im Using Opera 8.0 and like its interface..!And tabbed browsing!


All of you Please do describe why you like these browsers By posting in this thread!

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Jul 5 2005, 10:03 AM

Firefox all the way

Several reasons

• Free & Opensource
• Immensely extensible - very easy to create extensions with minimal knowledge of XUL & Javascript
• 1000 times more secure (relatively) that 99.9% of other browsers in the market
• Security patches are announced the moment a hole is discovered
• Huge online community & support forums
• Extremely lightweight - loads in a jiffy
• Tabbed browsing - the best of all
• And the list goes on..........

Ditto, Firefox all the way... For half the time, anyway

We have a dual boot, and the internet is connected to the linux portion of it (though to access it on Windows XP it only requires the unplugging and plugging of a cable) to make it "safer", there being a few more viruses made for windows systems than unix ones. There's a few problems though - the ISP has something called "DansGuardian", which I find immensely annoying. It does not block pornography or illegal content, it bans sites like eBay (or did, until I complained and got it taken off the list) and bans sites with something it calls "weight phrase limit exceeded". The hell. Anyhow. The DansGuardian seems not to apply to the little known or used Konqueror, which has subsequently become my mostly used browser. The problem with Konqueror is it won't display flash or java.. Even though we have both installed. So the end verdict is.. Kill the ISP.

Btw.. I forgot to mention.. Don't all of them except IE have tabbed browsing?

Internet Explorer for a long, long time, just because I didn't had any other browser, I've downloaded FireFox recently and I like it much more. It's just much better.

btw, why are you asking? There are several other threads like this.

-=jeroen=-

Oh great but my Fire for Loads very slowly.! donno the reason so thought its not that nice.! Can someone suggest me a skin for firefox which can be identical to Opera?

I never tested another browser to iexplorer, but from what you said I decided to DL opera ,


...wait , but i don't think that opera or another browser had security than explorer of Microsoft , i mean i will DL opera & fire fox but the most i going tu use is Explorer .

This post has been edited by aminzzlink: Jul 18 2005, 07:22 PM

Firefox for me as well, although its a ***** to load here at work. For some reason the comp takes forever to load it up...shitty ram type I think (as the system specs are pretty)

FireFox maybe is a bit slow that IExplorer, but it's really worth it

When compared to IE - firefox does load slower. But that is because the whole executable has to be loaded into RAM and then run - unlike IE, where almost 70% of the code is already in the RAM .. Windows makes sure that part of code is ever-present in the RAM, and that's what your Windows Explorer also uses in the background for faster operation.

What you see when you load IE, is NOT a full-blown browser, but a mere GUI to those API calls which are already residing in the memory. That explains the faster loads.

If firefox was allowed to pre-load a massive part of its code right at runtime using one of the system level privilege rungs, then the load time would be almost the same as IE if not faster.

Oh yea I know WHY it takes longer, its just insane on this computer here at work haha. Like I hit the exe and just walk away for a couple minutes lmao. But once its loaded it runs smoothly enough so I'd still rather use it then IE...

didn't mozilla proper use to have a preloader? Or am I on crack?... I seem to have memories of it having a quick launcher from the taskbar....hmmm...they should make one of those built into FF