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Topic: Web Browsers
Posted By: spookytooth
Subject: Web Browsers
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:49
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I'm sure this was done a few years back, but web browsers have drastically changed in the past couple of years, with some new competitors entering the market and new web browsers are being made all the time. With this out of the way, I ask you progarchives: what web browser do you use? If you know what version you're using please post that, too. I use Opera as my primary browser. Right now I have Opera 10 and I'm trying out the Opera 11 beta (currently using Opera 11 beta), which is really great so far. Opera finally decided to add extensions and it's even faster than it already was. I'm also liking the tab stacking concept they introduced. I use Firefox 4 beta, too. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:51
| I don't like any of them, but I've been using Chrome lately. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:53
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When I had a PC I suffered IE for a long time until I discovered Firefox and then Chrome. Now with a Mac, I still prefer Chrome over Safari. ------------- 
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:57
| Chrome, easily. I kind of dislike the fact that all copied links result in hyperlinks, but other than that there have been no flaws. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 16:29
| Firefox. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 16:36
| I tried Chrome but didn't see any reason to switch to it, so I'm still using Firefox. I like all the add-ons such as FireFTP + the fact that it had tabbed browsing before IE7. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 16:41
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I tried Chrome to see how much I'd save in resources; there was a small difference in favour of Chrome, but not enough to make me ditch FF. The amount of resouces consumed is my main issue with FF, but they are improving (especially with the creation of the "plugin container"). When I get a good computer this is not going to be a problem anymore (my 4 year old laptop has only 500M of RAM memory). |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 17:44
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10. I also discovered I could browse PA on my Nokia phone. ------------- |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 18:00
| I use ff, but Netscape Navigator is really the best |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 18:01
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12.
------------- "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: A Person
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 18:39
Same here. |
Tuzvihar wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 19:43
Foxy Browser.  Interesting that the microsquash one is currently running zero. That is my number two. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 20:16
| Chrome on Linux, FF on Windows |
Posted By: nutella23
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 20:23
Chroooooooooome  ------------- http://last.fm/user/nutella23"> 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 21:08
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wow, no IE users. That leads me to believe that FF will soon become a major security risk. Its what I use except for logging into work, Citrix periodically updates and the receipt only works with IE for awhile after.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 22:54
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I used to use IE but after many years of not bothering me it got too unstable on my laptop. I use Opera now, I didn't like Chrome and FF. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 00:37
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Chrome. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 05:09
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Chrome - fast and generally reliable. ------------- 
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Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 12:55
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I also forgot to mention that I use opera mobile on my droid (in fact, im posting this reply on my droid). It's nice to see that no one picked internet explorer :p -------------
Would you like some Bailey's? |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:50
| Firefox on both my PC and Mac. |
Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 17:43
| Internet Explorer 7 I think. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 19:37
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 19:54
| I just switched to Chrome for the second time because of the damn Firefox freezing my old computer. The last time I switched back to Firefox because there wasn't much of a difference between the two; I think that was about a year ago. Now the difference is huge in favour of Chrome, which I'd like to keep - but it has some annoying features that I can't control. For example, can anyone tell how do I make it stop transforming any URL into a link? I can't make hyperlinks because of that. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 21:19
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IE6
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 21:26
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 21:34
 ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 21:41
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 22:48
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Chrome all other browsers are for peasants. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 01:24
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I for one prefer Safari. Firefox has better media streaming but Safari is faster overall. -------------  
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 01:30
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Firefox. Even though it seems to soak up an average of 300mbs of my RAM, I still prefer it to anything else I've used.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 02:51
| I'm back on Firefox, as I couldn't get Tinychat to work properly on Chromium. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 08:18
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 08:21
And now that it works, I'm there all alone. 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 09:44
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I use Internet Explorer.
But I also have Google Chrome which is actually much better, but I'm lazy to click on it.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 09:48
I was going to make that joke, but decided not to. Anyway, Chrome. On the windows box at home though it's FF
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 10:07
I love and rely on Firefox, but this gradual memory leak business is killing the experience. 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 10:42
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 10:45
Yeah, I'm the same, and Alex also mentioned this. I really prefer Firefox to IE, but my CPU usage is now regularly running at 100%, and I have tried all sorts of fixes and solutions. The fact is that it is FF that is causing this, and if it carries on, I will just have to stop using it. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 10:57
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SRWare Iron, although it's basically a lighter and safer version of Chrome. And Firefox users, you should try the PaleMoon browser. It's exactly like FF but revamped for better performance. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 17:01
Web browsers? I don't use them at all. I am doing all this through the power of thought.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 17:53
Easy question. FireFox 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 05 2011 at 08:58
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Well, I finally bit the bullet today, and downloaded Chrome. I'm typing this on the browser now, and am one happy bunny. CPU usage finally back to where it should be and a far quicker and happier computer. It's a shame, because I really liked Firefox, and my wife hates change on the PC, but I really couldn't carry on with taking minutes to carry out the most basic task. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 05 2011 at 09:29
| I had to switch back to Firefox - the inconvenients on Chrome were minor, but decisive. It didn't let me properly use the ReadItLater add-on, it didn't have a sepparate field for address bar and google search, it didn't let me open from the bookmarks another website in the same tab, the bookmarks display was stupid and the reclining sides of the tabs annoyed me a lot. I miss the functioning spell-check, though. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 00:09
| I switched from IE to Chrome last night. Chrome is my favourite. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 00:17
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IE 8
I don't have any problems with it. -------------  |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 06:15
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We are all web brothers 
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 09:26
I'm giving Chrome a try, and it seems to be running much more smoothly on my machine than Firefox has lately.  ------------- A fun place to review and discuss metal: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - MetalMusicArchives |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 10:09
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I've never given Chrome a proper try I might download it later but I stick by Safari usually, the tab and window management can't be beaten -------------  
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 11:48
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Currently I'm using Chrome exclusively, but Firefox 4 will probably level the playing field again. And of course Internet Explorer 9. What I like most about Chrome is the reduced graphical interface - no need for a full screen mode. My only complaint: The bookmarks bar is always visible - there should be a way to hide it. I also like the way IE 9 maximises the space by combining adress input fields and tabs in one row. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 12:04
Hmm, in my Chrome there is no bookmarks bar. But I hate not having a menu bar, instead. I dislike having to open a new tab for any operation I want to do. I understand their quest for as much free space as possible, but my monitor is big enough, thanks. |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 12:55
I just discovered how to hide the bookmarks bar - it has a context menu.  Now I'm in your situation - there is no bookmarks bar, and I don't know how I could get it displayed again. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: March 20 2011 at 12:56
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But as far as the menu is concerned - in Chrome you can access it via the wrench symbol - no new tab needed. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 10:45
Ah, so that's what probably happened with my bookmarks bar - I hid it in the first place and completely forgot about it. You can restore it by clicking Tools, then Always Show Bookmarks Toolbar. I decided to restore it too because this way I can have access to all my bookmarks without having to open a new tab, even if I hate the idea of having a toolbar whose main content I don't need. That was my problem with the lack of a menu bar - with the bookmarks toolbar disabled, I would have preferred the Menu icon to have Bookmarks; that would have been perfect.
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 11:41
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Safari kept on crashing on me, so I switched to Chrome. There was a new patch to Safari a while back, but I'm so comfortable with Chrome that I haven't really tried it. Comfortable despite the idiotic spell checking thing that cannot be turned off except individually from every single text field. Of course it doesn't know Finnish, so whenever I write that it's all red lines all over the place. But one gets used to annoying things after a while.
edit: It seems a recent update to Chrome made it possible to turn the bloody thing off, now I'm officially a full-on Chrome user  ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Kilgannon
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 03:51
Probably have it sorted already but to hide/reveal bookmarks bar CTRL + Shift + B ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 07:39
Firefox has a spell checker.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 08:20
I know, but for some mysterious reasons it hasn't been working on this computer at all during the three years I've been using it (in which I've also reinstalled Windows and Firefox numerous times). I know how to enable and disable it, but it just doesn't work. |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 11:28
Yes - or via the menu -> Tools. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: March 27 2011 at 13:39
| Firefox 4.0 now. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 05 2011 at 18:20
But it's dinner time. I use Firefox it for some things and Explorer for others. I tried Chrome briefly, but seriously, how many damned browsers do you need? I generally hear its good if you have issues with the performance of the others on your computer.------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 16 2011 at 16:57
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I've upgraded FIrefox 4 and was really missing the function to go back more than 1 page at a time, as they've removed that button now. For those of you also missing this, just right click on the go back (or forward) button and you get a drop down list of pages. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 15:32
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http://www.browsermemory.com/" rel="nofollow - This is a great tool to reduce the resource consumption of your browser, try it out! It reduces the amount of RAM memory my FF utilizes down to almost a half (and sometimes more!).
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 18:06
If you hold down the back button in Firefox 4 the same menu appears. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 18:19
| Does anyone know if it's possible to export cookies and history in Firefox, so that you can import them back again after a system re-install? |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 18:40
Ignore the above quote.Hated IE9,switched to Chrome and never looked back. ------------- |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 29 2012 at 18:51
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Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: March 30 2012 at 23:59
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Opera finally gave us extensions? Might have to give them another go soon. Also should try Firefox given that they decided to not make flash lag anymore. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 31 2012 at 10:21
| Firefox FireForever! |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:43
| INTARNETEXPLORRRAH |