Poll: Which internet browser do you use the most?
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wait a second.... there is more internet browsers other then crappy INternet Explorer, what the hell? that is blasphemy all my life i have been lied to and said that only IE existed, thank you expist for opening my eyes to the new light that is internet *(downloads every internet browerser)*
Firefox. I don't know if this is firefox3, or firefox only, but firefox 3 atleast allows me more space on my moniter ( I combined all the bars together except the tab one. Taking out everything I don't need and it fits very nicely into that one bar), all I have to do to search google is type "g [insert what I want to search]" in my adress bar and I'll get to the screen that I'd normally get from going to google, typing something in and pressing search, I can do that with any text box. I can make an abbreviation for any site I want and can get to there from my address bar using it (for the escapist all I have to do is type "yahtzee" into my adress bar). tab mix plus makes it so if I accidentally x out firefox I can get it back on and I'll be wherever I was. I just wish adblock plus worked for flashplayer
I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird, though I can't remember what version. Currently running Firefox 3.1b1. I do like Opera quite a bit as well, but it doesn't have quite the same community support that Firefox does, and its benefits are so small these days that they don't really matter enough to me.
Firefox is the way to go! Haven't heard of Chrome or Opera. Safari is good when you're on a Mac and Firefox isn't readily available though.
I'd personally like to see the destruction of IE in the future (or even present). It's so darn clunky in my own opinion.
I'd personally like to see the destruction of IE in the future (or even present). It's so darn clunky in my own opinion.
Firefox
i also have Safari, and i know its better (especially with the improved Leopard version
), but im just used to Firefox
besides all my bookmarks are on it
oh by the way, to anyone using Internet Explorer, you have a serious problem with reliability, such as this:
www.crashie.com
i also have Safari, and i know its better (especially with the improved Leopard version
), but im just used to Firefoxbesides all my bookmarks are on it
oh by the way, to anyone using Internet Explorer, you have a serious problem with reliability, such as this:
www.crashie.com
Chrome has been a godsend to my crappy little laptop - it doesn't tire out the hamster in it's wheel as much as IE does, plus the shuttie-down-tabs-separately-thingie makes him a very happy hammie.
[OT] BTW, I seem to have done something so that ZP's videos don't load in Chrome anymore - there is only a grey box, right-clicking only brings up "Movie not loaded..." greyed out, and "About Adobe Flash Player 10" underneath, not grey. The banner at the top doesn't load either, there is only the piece of paper icon with green, blue and red inside. If anyone is computer savvy and bored enough to let me know what I messed up with my hammie and I would be SO grateful. Apologies for this brief off-topicness, carry on, and thank you! [/OT]
[OT] BTW, I seem to have done something so that ZP's videos don't load in Chrome anymore - there is only a grey box, right-clicking only brings up "Movie not loaded..." greyed out, and "About Adobe Flash Player 10" underneath, not grey. The banner at the top doesn't load either, there is only the piece of paper icon with green, blue and red inside. If anyone is computer savvy and bored enough to let me know what I messed up with my hammie and I would be SO grateful. Apologies for this brief off-topicness, carry on, and thank you! [/OT]
In short, I go with Firefox because:
-open-source coding
-Free, high-quality plug-ins for most everything (from Paypal to myspace) to make life that much easier to bear
-Fast (I used to use it when I still had dial-up, and it was 1100% better than IE, and Chrome wasn't around)
-Auto-Recovery program saves my last pages even if I lose power or FF crashes
-Easy bookmarking
-Aesthetically pleasing
-Its the best thing I've found yet
I haven't had much experience with Chrome, although I have fiddled around with it a little (it is stupid fast, but so is FF on broadband, and the lack of plug-ins for it right now, however, fairly much dampens the experience, on top of the fact that its still in beta so who knows if that small disk usage will last), IE sucks like a Dyson-brand vacuum, and I hear that Safari is... bad, to be nice. Never tried Opera because I've never needed to, and others that I've tried just haven't made the cut.
Sorry, that was an automatic reaction to those kinds of statements.
Firefox is more secure than IE, and not only because I've never heard of an FF-specific virus or worm, or that Microsoft made and holds their iron fist over it... in fact, I find Internet Explorer far more useless than Firefox, besides it being slower than molasses in January. I've never had many serious issues with FF, even when I still had dial up, and most of those are fixed quickly and without need for a major press release; on the other hand, IE seems to think that it never needs to shut down, and sometimes will stay on in the background, forcing me to go into Task Manager, hunt it down, and shut it down. A real annoyance, especially when you need that memory for something more useful, say, a game.
On top of that, if IE is so secure, then why does MS need to keep updating it with 'vital updates' that seem to do absolutely nothing other than force your computer to shut down and restart, whereas Firefox updates only make it better? Case in point: IE is not as secure as The Gates says it is, or at least the last version I tried wasn't, and even now I don't see that changing. And from a company that lost literally billions over products that didn't work properly (including the X-Box 360, in which one study found that 64/100 'Boxes that came off the lot at the beginning didn't even work), I don't feel that secure. And the lack of a huge add-on library that costs nothing to download and use, along with FF's list of great features and ease-of-use, only makes that worse. I'll stick with Firefox 3.0, tyvm. I rest my case.
-open-source coding
-Free, high-quality plug-ins for most everything (from Paypal to myspace) to make life that much easier to bear
-Fast (I used to use it when I still had dial-up, and it was 1100% better than IE, and Chrome wasn't around)
-Auto-Recovery program saves my last pages even if I lose power or FF crashes
-Easy bookmarking
-Aesthetically pleasing
-Its the best thing I've found yet
I haven't had much experience with Chrome, although I have fiddled around with it a little (it is stupid fast, but so is FF on broadband, and the lack of plug-ins for it right now, however, fairly much dampens the experience, on top of the fact that its still in beta so who knows if that small disk usage will last), IE sucks like a Dyson-brand vacuum, and I hear that Safari is... bad, to be nice. Never tried Opera because I've never needed to, and others that I've tried just haven't made the cut.
*chokesnort*Byrne said:
Sorry, that was an automatic reaction to those kinds of statements.
Firefox is more secure than IE, and not only because I've never heard of an FF-specific virus or worm, or that Microsoft made and holds their iron fist over it... in fact, I find Internet Explorer far more useless than Firefox, besides it being slower than molasses in January. I've never had many serious issues with FF, even when I still had dial up, and most of those are fixed quickly and without need for a major press release; on the other hand, IE seems to think that it never needs to shut down, and sometimes will stay on in the background, forcing me to go into Task Manager, hunt it down, and shut it down. A real annoyance, especially when you need that memory for something more useful, say, a game.
On top of that, if IE is so secure, then why does MS need to keep updating it with 'vital updates' that seem to do absolutely nothing other than force your computer to shut down and restart, whereas Firefox updates only make it better? Case in point: IE is not as secure as The Gates says it is, or at least the last version I tried wasn't, and even now I don't see that changing. And from a company that lost literally billions over products that didn't work properly (including the X-Box 360, in which one study found that 64/100 'Boxes that came off the lot at the beginning didn't even work), I don't feel that secure. And the lack of a huge add-on library that costs nothing to download and use, along with FF's list of great features and ease-of-use, only makes that worse. I'll stick with Firefox 3.0, tyvm. I rest my case.
Not to be a prick, but I find it mildly entertaining that so many people openly bash Safari (and its' creators) while saying Firefox (and its' creators) are gods.
A little known fact about Safari and Firefox: Safari was Firefox's predecessor. The same people who made Safari went on to make Firefox. (Not all of them, of course, since Safari development has continued.)
Just thought I'd put that out in the open.
A little known fact about Safari and Firefox: Safari was Firefox's predecessor. The same people who made Safari went on to make Firefox. (Not all of them, of course, since Safari development has continued.)
Just thought I'd put that out in the open.