Which browser is the best?
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Topic: Which browser is the best?
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Subject: Which browser is the best?
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 13:48
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Which internet browser is in your opinion the best? Personally I use Opera and like it very much. I haven't had any problems with it so far. ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 13:55
| Firefox for me. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 14:01
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Mozilla is great, but has one disadvantage: when visiting sites which
play media on it, you always have to download the plug-in first, which
is a bit annoying. my personal preference is Netscape, and be it only for the inbuilt AIM-feature -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 14:01
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 22:24
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Firefox
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 22:38
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Firefox for me too.
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 23:00
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Firefox because it's safer, faster, and more convenient. Sometimes its a pain in the ass for media and these forums, but it's worth it because I can't stand IE. ------------- 
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 23:03
I think we can all agree on which is the worst .
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 01:21
| At least there is one other sensible enough to use Opera, besides me. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 09:36
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Opera here. Hang on, I'm posting that from Firefox  .
Well, Firefox is better integrated into Linux, so when I'm not running
Windows I use it instead (unlike IE, FF isn't awful enough to warrant
the effort of fiddling around to get Opera running!). The betas for
Opera 9 look great though (although I'm not entirely convinced of
widgets...). If they went open source it'd be much easier to use on
Linux, but it's still far and away the best browser. |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 09:57
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Firefox
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 13:57
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I use Opera, but I can't vote yet as I'm having a problem... Some days it works just fine, but sometimes it stops working for a about 10 seconds and then it works for another 10 seconds and it keeps doing this for the particular day. But the next day it might work without problems. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 13:59
Not using Opera might help. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2024/vote" rel="nofollow - 2024 Release Poll Listened to: 
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Dalezilla wrote:Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 18:22
Is it on any specific websites? Which version are you using? (the beta not being a good idea, since it's still more than rough around the edges). The only real issue I've had with Opera is using it to change settings on my router, since the router isn't too happy about the way it loads pages and I find I have to wait a bit after the page has loaded to do anything or it won't change settings (the wait, presumably, is the extra time it would have taken other browsers to load the page ). It's also less than forgiving on poorly written pages. |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 23:59
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Firefox by far, but the most secure of all is Safari for Mac, with 0 critical errors during the last year. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 05:05
Not on specific sites. And the version is 7. At least I think so |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 05:06
I hate explorer and firefox is too popular to be any good |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 05:28
If you go to About on the Help menu, it'll open up a page with the version information at the top. 8.54 is the latest stable version, so if you are using 7 it's unlikely to be fixed
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 05:34
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1894708,00.asp - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1894708,00.asp ?
That said, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2201 - http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2201 just a day earlier  . On the other hand, that's one vulnerability rather than thirteen.
If I recall correctly, one big security problem for Safari is the way that it uses the same engine as a lot of other bits of OSX, in much the same way that lots of Windows uses bits of Internet Explorer. I forget what that was all about, though... edit: http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060220220507.shtml - http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060220220507.shtml There we go. I don't think that was actually the problem, but it's basically the same thing everyone yells at IE for. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 06:55
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I don't see any reason on why i should use ANY other browser than Internet Explorer ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 07:08
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 08:44
| ^^ Just go to help in Opera and click check for new release. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 11:04
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^Yay! A new version is available
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 11:45
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Internet Explorer. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 12:42
The new version has the same problem 
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 14:54
I've never experienced anything like that... ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 08:39
^ A friend of mine says that it's a problem with windows. But it works fine with Linux. I don't want firefox!!  
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 16:10
 Oh right, the 0 critical errors are from 2004 But still is one of the most safest web browsers of all -------------
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:43
Well, for a start Firefox has tabs. And a load of good plugins such as FireFTP and ReminderFox. |
Posted By: Man Made God
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:50
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Well, I've been using Firefox since a couple of months because of heaps
and heaps of spyware while using IE. Since I've been using fox I
haven't had any problems! No how cool is that! the fact that www.nakedwomen.com isn't my homepage anymore, could also be the key in this case... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/manmadegod/?chartstyle=ScarlettJohansson1"> 
Focus on the music... Focus! |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:20
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http://www.ytmnd.com - www.ytmnd.com dosn't work on firefox, so it sucks. Internet Explorer is the best by the way. -------------  
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:23
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IE- don't see anything wrong with it. ------------- |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 19:10
Neither does Microsoft. I'm on a Mac, but I primarily use Firefox, although I just started checking out Camino. On my work PC I use Firefox. I don't know how I ever lived without tabbed browsing! ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 00:56
You haven't got a filesharing app going that is taking all your upload (not download) bandwidth? |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 00:57
Except... its ability to let silent installers install allow popups same engine as file explorer allowing hacks to affect the whole OS no tabbed browsing totally vulnerable to trojans anything else? |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 01:39
What are you talking about? it works with me in Firefox. -------------
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 08:01
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A security warning for Firefox users - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4925606.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4925606.stm |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 16:14
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I always update my firefox, so I almost never had to worry.
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Posted By: nowayman121
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 08:08
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Firefox sh**s all over IE. The moral of this story is, get Firefox, you will know the difference.
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Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:23
And Firefox has the Adblocker extension, which means I rarely if ever see ANY ads on a web page. Plus I use Linux at home most of the time so IE isn't even an option. ------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:09
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The ad blocker in FF is certainly better than any other browser I've tried. |
Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 09:48
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I voted other, in the absence of Safari. I use Firefox as well. ------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:00
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Been trying firefox. Didn't like it, bach to using IE. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:42
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Aol Exploer is the best.
its easy and simple like INternet exploer, but has the multiple tabs system.So i can be on PA forum, Myspace, Dt.net froum, and porn all at the same time ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 06:22
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Hey Snowdog? You won't like the new version of IE much then, as Microsoft have taken most of IE's "new" features from FireFox (tabbed browsing, plugins, etc) ------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 06:27
The tabs were fine! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:56
The ones which Firefox took from Opera, is that? Well, not plugins, but tabbed browsing anyhow! |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 18:36
| I like Firefox on my computer at work, but for some reason it won't work for me at home. Oh well- IE does the job. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 13:06
I have only used IE and seems ok 
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 19:12
If IE works at home, so will Firefox. If you have it installed on your home computer, uninstall it (edit: firefox, not IE). Get the latest version of firefox and then re-install it. When you start it the first time, one of the dialogs asks if you want to import the settings from IE, make sure you give this a yes and it should work |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 21:33
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There was a time when Firefox wouldn't let me log in on these forums.
That was several months ago and on a different computer though. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 22:24
I know it seems so. Now downlosd Firefox and you'll see that it isn't  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: saarepiiga
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 15:27
Similar problems here. I use Firefox because it's more secure but I wouldn't throw IE out from my computer as I don't know when The Fox gets moody. I voted for IE. ------------- Music, all I hear is MUSIC |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 20:21
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You couldn't throw out IE from your computer if you tried
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