luukie41 Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 firefox IE is also good but has tons of problems :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkor41 Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 firefox makes me feel.. well gay... there i said it... internet explorer is very clean and manly where anything mozilla based is a little foofoo. Plus, anything based off mozilla doesnt show sites the same way as IE, now before you all jump on me and go FIREFOX IS 100% COMPLIANT WITH CSS and all that other jive.... compliant or not.. it just looks WRONG. and as far as security, I have never been infected with spyware or adware from a web site. Why? because I DO NOT CLICK YES on anything, I avoid sites that REQUIRE you to install spyware to use them, and I have service pack 2 installed. I run ad-aware, spybot, and MS antispyware and I have never been infected with anything that i got from a website (now I did once get infected from a pirate copy of nero that had a trojan horse installer that installed crap while it was isntalling nero... but that isnt the browsers fault) oh... and btw.... all you firefox lovers.. firefox is not reccomended in a IT world.. why? just try to configure anything made by Cisco (or linksys), HP, or 3COM via its http interface with firefox. 75% of the products will not work. (cisco for example will not finish loading the page, same for linksys(which is cisco) ) compliant or not.. something isnt right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Firefox... It's better than IE in terms of loading pages, but its startup up is a bit slower than IE. I've found that to be true as well. I do, however, use both. The Microsoft website doesn't like other browsers. You can't access their Windows Update feature except with IE. Quote from their website while trying to access Windows Update using Firefox: You need to be running a version of Internet Explorer 5 or higher in order to use Windows Update. c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkor41 Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Firefox... It's better than IE in terms of loading pages, but its startup up is a bit slower than IE. I've found that to be true as well. I do, however, use both. The Microsoft website doesn't like other browsers. You can't access their Windows Update feature except with IE. Quote from their website while trying to access Windows Update using Firefox: You need to be running a version of Internet Explorer 5 or higher in order to use Windows Update. c4 B) very true, there is a hack to totaly remove Ie from windows 9X, every customers computer that I have seen come in with that hack is full of parasites, many of them have hotfixes that prevent them from being infected... but alas, they couldnt install them via windows update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleZ Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 firefox. i always used IE till some poeple on other fourms convinced mt to try firefox. i never used IE again. (well my dload pc has IE as browser, but i dont internet on it). firefox is indeed a hell of a lot better than IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanDoc Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 I use Avant Browser, built in pop-up & AD blocker, you can use multiple windows for websites, saves open pages when you close the browser. Might be glitchy on some things, I haven't noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostwolf357 Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 Why would anybody use anything other than firefox or netscape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 firefox makes me feel.. well gay... Wow! I've never heard of anybody having their sexual orientation influenced by which browser they used ... ;) oh... and btw.... all you firefox lovers.. firefox is not reccomended in a IT world.. why? just try to configure anything made by Cisco (or linksys), HP, or 3COM via its http interface with firefox. 75% of the products will not work. (cisco for example will not finish loading the page, same for linksys(which is cisco) ) compliant or not.. something isnt right. My experience is 100% success with configuring Linksys and Netgear equipment with FF. But, FF needs some work before it's corporate world ready. It needs a way for IT nazis to control the installation of extensions, actually, to configure extension installation. FF doesn't render XHTML and CSS perfectly. But it does render some features more correctly than IE and makes better choices for ambiguous interpretations than IE. Nevertheless, there's the IE View extension that lets you open the same page in IE if you're having a FF problem. I've had to use it 3 or 4 times in the past year. Once because of the FF problem I mentioned earlier. Since you posted an analogy, I'll return one of mine. FF is like a Lotus while IE is like a Chevy Suburban. One is tightly engineered and a bit non-standard, the other is big, bulky, consumes resources like there's no tomorrow, is a general menace; but is sometimes required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Opera is by far the best browser hands down. I can't even use IE because I keep forgetting that you actually have to MOVE THE MOUSE to go BACK a page? What's up with that? I have to click the back button... and then when I do, it usually doesn't even go back, it tries to reload the page and gives some lame error. In Opera I just click my two mouse buttons and poof I'm back a page... I can move back 10 pages in about 1.5 seconds. Did you know that Opera's download is 1MB smaller than Firefox but has way more features in the base install (without extensions)? Ahh... I pity the fools that suffer through life with needlessly crappy browsing applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mrthumps Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 I use explorer because it came with this machine and I'm just too lazy/don't care enough to install anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcat Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Been using Opera now for over a year and love it. I love all the features like tabbed pages. Gave FF a go since it also had tabs but couldn't get the hang of it. Probably just a setting or plugin I missed. Other things I like about it is that the skins(loads of these on thier site), panels, toolbars and buttons are so configureable. I also like that if I crash my box due to overclocking with Opera still up, shut it down without closing the browser or just plain close it out, when I fire it back up it drops me right were I left off including all the pages and what position I was on the page. Opera also has built in IRC, newsfeed/e-mail client, although I like using Thunderbird as my e-mail client. Pages load lightning fast no matter if it's new or forwards/backwards. Neat little site to test your browsers rendering speed here. :D Lets see what all of you come up with for benchies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avagriffon Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Three fin thruster at Bells Beach sorry it had to be done....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulreaper Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 I use Firefox and IE, now mainly IE but I'm planning on trying out Opera since many of my friends adore it! I was quite satisfied with FF though it had some rendering problems as mentioned. Netscape seems dead and buried as of today... :D However I absolutely love Thunderbird (mozilla/firefox emailprogram) it's way better than Outlook and not at all constantly attacked by various icky yucky things :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tisjusme Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 At the VERY least' date=' everyone needs to download Firefox and Opera, give them a try, and dump IE.[/quote'] I have been trying to assimilate the program into another user (Who wishes to remain annonamous) but he constantly tells me that IE is better. I'm with you niteshdw. Opera all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcazant Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 glad to see Firefox beats IE :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostwolf357 Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 Fire fox also has a couple of cool plug ends that allow you to see the ip address of any open window and link. Helps keep spoofing down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSWIceman Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 You left out Mozilla! :o I left out Microsoft too Elderbear. Mozilla is a browser as well as the name of the organization...It gets overshadowed by Firefox, but its still going. http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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