what's your browser?

by **alexboom** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:19 am

just wanted to know how many people have IE here ... to them, i'd just say try Firefox and say good bye to virus and popups. Since I have it I can't browse anymore without the tabbed browsing

by **J@3** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:59 am

I use Avant Browser and it's awesome (Y)

by **Jay-Peso** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:08 am

I use Netscape, Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox

Mainly IE. I am so used to it :shock:

by **ATTENTIONWHORE** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:26 am

Internet Explorer... (Y)

by **Cameron** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:44 am

I use the free version of opera... you don't even notice the ads, and it's so perfectly amazing... you start trying to use mouse shortcuts in windows that don't exist other than in Opera... I love it.

by **Hotshot** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:24 am

i've been using firefox for a couple of months now and i think i'll stick to it for as long as i can use a computer

i pity you fools still stuck with IE :cool:

by **Jackal** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:46 am

Can someone tell my why FireFox is better? Like features etc? I might think of getting it...if I like what I hear.

by **Mikki** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:05 am

Mozilla Firebird (Y)

by **Cameron** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:21 am

Jackal wrote:Can someone tell my why FireFox is better? Like features etc? I might think of getting it...if I like what I hear.

Yeah, me too

by **Hotshot** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:38 pm

Firefox

Pros:

basically, it has all the features as internet explorer and then some.

Cons

- longer start-up time when compared to IE
that can be atttributed to the fact that internet explorer is integrated into windows so it already loads up when you start the computer.
the difference in startup time is only a couple of seconds though and it happens only when you first open the browser after starting up windows.
so whether or not to call it a con, is really up to you

and here's a couple of links for anyone who's interested...

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=162049
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=169933

by **Homer** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:15 pm

by **Mikki** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:20 pm

Camazing wrote:
Jackal wrote:Can someone tell my why FireFox is better? Like features etc? I might think of getting it...if I like what I hear.

Yeah, me too

Me three.

What's the diff between Firefox and Firebird?

by **The Game** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:57 pm

i use Firefox..

by **alexboom** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:42 pm

Mikki wrote:
Camazing wrote:
Jackal wrote:Can someone tell my why FireFox is better? Like features etc? I might think of getting it...if I like what I hear.

Yeah, me too

Me three.

What's the diff between Firefox and Firebird?

firefox and firebird are the same software indeed, the browser was first called Phoenix but had to change for Firebord due to copyright problem, but there were another copyright problem so when version 0.8 went out, Firebird was renamed Firefox

the latest version is 0.9.2 ; v. 1.0 is coming out soon

but for a beta version it's incredibly excellent.

the hardest thing I assume is to change your browser: going from IE to Firefox isn't that easy when you have habits. Indeed, both are very similar, it takes about 2 min to understand how Firefox works
But once you did it, you'll never want to come back to IE anymore

by **Cameron** on Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:58 pm

What would be the difference between Firefox and Opera (other than the ads?) Because Opera has popup stopper, tabbed browsing, mouse shortcuts... and it's very, very fast.

JJ wrote:i use IE even though i hate it. i dont want to use any other browses.They may create problems. (Maybe ?)

I at one point had IE and Mozilla and Opera installed, and the only problem was it kept asking me which is the default browser (until I clicked don't ask again, of course) - I definitely recommend trying a different browser. The thing about IE is, other than it's slowness and lack of features - is that in Windows agreement it states that Microsoft is allowed to recieve information from you, so every time you go to a site it it sending microsoft the site you are going to. In addition to an invasion of privacy, this actually causes your browser to run much slower (because it is constantly sending info back and forth before loading the page). 3rd party browsers don't do this. The only problem with 3rd party is that often sites will only be compatible with IE, so you have to keep it on your comp to view those chance sites.

by **Repole** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:48 am

i shoulda read that agreement...

by **Pointgod5** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:46 am

Internet explorer (y)

by **alexboom** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:49 am

Camazing wrote:3rd party browsers don't do this. The only problem with 3rd party is that often sites will only be compatible with IE, so you have to keep it on your comp to view those chance sites.

that's not so right, even if sites are designed for IE, in 6 months I can have acceeded 98 % of the site I visited. And even if sometimes the appearance was a little buggy that was not a problem for browsing I could get all the info I needed

all the more as IE has about 150 security failures while Firefox has *almost* none

by **Cameron** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:00 am

Sorry - I worded that incorrectly. Sometimes, sites will NOT be designed for any 3rd party browsers - not specifically designed for IE. So sometimes these sites will have conflicts... I myself have only had 1 or 2 sites do this however. And actually they were both my own site. The javascript news scroller and flash movies didn't work. Once in a while opera has problems with flash movies... but all other sites I've been too seem to work fine. (Y)

by **Filip** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:50 am

Following Alexboom advice and downloading FireFox now :cool:

I'm f*cking tired of Explorer and it's popups and other issues

I can't even choose my own startsite anymore

by **Tuomas** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:27 pm

firefox all the way (Y)

(Y)(Y)

by **J@3** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:58 pm

http://www.avantbrowser.com/index.html

It's also got a really good thing where you can edit the skins yourself (Y)

by **Filip** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:04 pm

Yay, I luv' firefox.

It automaticly blocks all popups. But you can choose to unblock at certain site s if you want. I unblocket the forum since the pm popups.

One other good things are the tabs which allow you to have several page in one window :cool:

by **Homer** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:26 pm

by **alexboom** on Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:38 pm

i'm glad i made you change and that you appreciate it, slam harder

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