Internet browser poll

[Disco Dan]

Im curious as to what everyone is using to browse the web...



Safari all the way!!

[boostin]

IE

I don't see why there is all the fuss over Microsoft products...it works 99.8% of the time for me.

[deanohit]

My brother put me onto Firefox (windows), found it to be a huge improvement over IE.

[davereid]

I use opera, but its set to identify itself as IE.

[rwh]

I'd have ticked Firefox (Linux) if I'd had the option, although it's actually the Debian bundled version, rebranded for legal reasons as Iceweasel.

Richard

[Toaster]

Wow, never realised there were so many options.... I really don't know shit about computers. So much software on this flat screen thingy and have no idea how to use it or what its for.

[phaedrus]

i use a combonation of iceweasel, konqueror and occasionally elinks

[Dave-]

been meaning to get opera

[cowboyz]

IE. comes with windows. does the job. Couldnt give a rats about anything else.

[NordieBoy]

Opera paid for since version 3.

IE - Font zooming problems, no tabs, no spell check.
Firefox - Slow loading.
Opera - needs Firefox's wavey line spellcheck.

[Bren]

I'd have ticked Firefox (Linux) if I'd had the option, although it's actually the Debian bundled version, rebranded for legal reasons as Iceweasel.

Richard

Good to see another Linux user....


i use a combonation of iceweasel, konqueror and occasionally elinks

...and another one....

...Oh, and I use Firefox on a machine running Ubuntu 7.10 (that is a Linux set-up for those not in the know)


GO LINUX....

[ArcherWC]

IE all the way.........Go Bill

[Delphinus]

Good to see another Linux user....



...and another one....

...Oh, and I use Firefox on a machine running Ubuntu 7.10 (that is a Linux set-up for those not in the know)


GO LINUX....

And another here. Kubuntu Gutsy.
Firefox Linux

[Bren]

And another here. Kubuntu Gutsy.
Firefox Linux
:headbang::2thumbsup:headbang::2thumbsup:headbang:

GO LINUX!
Love the Underdog...

[PirateJafa]

Where the heck is Opera? :(

It's been faster and safer than FF for years. Easily the best browser out there.

[riffer]

Sorry to also be a pedant but Safari is available for Windows.

And Firefox is available for Linux.

I've also used them.

[NordieBoy]

And another here. Kubuntu Gutsy.
Firefox Linux

Opera, FireFox, Konqueror, links, IE 6 on Slackware.
OperaMini 3.1.7 on Palm Treo.

[Skunk]

Tut-tut Dan. You of all people should have included Safari for Windows in that list as an option on it's own...

[yod]

Where the heck is Opera? :(

It's been faster and safer than FF for years. Easily the best browser out there.

me too and you're dead right...most secure out there, it's my browser of choice but I use pretty much all of them since I have to test my sites on most browsers

[Deviant Esq]

What's all this banter about Firefox being slow? Never really caused any such problems for me, or not that I'm aware of. Much prefer using FF to Internet Exploder...

[Usarka]

So what do all these other browsers do for me that IE doesn't??????

[SlashWylde]

IE

I don't see why there is all the fuss over Microsoft products...it works 99.8% of the time for me.

Yeah, but Linux works 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999998% of the time.

[MaxB]

Where the heck is Opera? :(

It's been faster and safer than FF for years. Easily the best browser out there.

+1 Opera rocks. 2PCs and a PDA no probs at all.

At work I use Firefox cos I will not use IE. It let me down once too often.

[scracha]

Bloody new fangled Web. Bring back gopher, XModem and Kermit. I remember being sat in the Physics lab at Uni in 93 being blown away by NCSA Mosaic (even though it was on a monochrome screen X-Windows Solaris box).

Umm...browser. IE7 for porn as it's so easy to erase the files. FF for most other sites.

I expect the Linux hippys will be using browsers they've written themselves in C or something equally sad.

[WarlockNZ]

Bloody new fangled Web. Bring back gopher, XModem and Kermit. I remember being sat in the Physics lab at Uni in 93 being blown away by NCSA Mosaic (even though it was on a monochrome screen X-Windows Solaris box).

Umm...browser. IE7 for porn as it's so easy to erase the files. FF for most other sites.

I expect the Linux hippys will be using browsers they've written themselves in C or something equally sad.

ohhhh ... do you remember turtle draw on the zx spectrum ??? ... LOL .. oh ... those were the days mate .. none of this new fangled interblag thing, why i remember when i had to dial up to uni via a 13,6 modem and all I got was a BBS and i was happy with that!, and top it off i could dial up a mates BBS ( he had like 5 modems, so i could chat with people or play txt based D&D.

I tell you what, the stories i'm going to tell my grandkids about when the internet didn't exist... they will out class the whole walking to school in the snow with no shoes stories i tell you what. :) .. ha ha

[Romeo]

This website would be completely inoperable without tabbed browsing - or it would take hours to flick through the new posts ;s.

[Hillbilly]

Using IE 7.0, has tabs but Im old fashioned.

[Kickaha]

This website would be completely inoperable without tabbed browsing - or it would take hours to flick through the new posts ;s.

right click-open link in new window, it's what I've always done

[SlashWylde]

I expect the Linux hippys will be using browsers they've written themselves in C or something equally sad.

Probably in assembler. Or machine code.

[Bren]

I expect the Linux hippys will be using browsers they've written themselves in C or something equally sad.


Hippys??????I aint no hippy.........but while we are on that subject i just wanna say...DOWN WITH MICROSOFT... DOWN WITH BILL GATES!....DOWN WITH THE CORPORATE MACHINE...
...PEACE MAN!








and as a matter of fact I use FF, and sometimes opera....

[Bren]

ohhhh ... do you remember turtle draw on the zx spectrum ??? ... LOL .. oh ... those were the days mate ..

hmmmm yeah...I agree those were cool days....I owned an amstrad cpc64 as my first beige beast, although it was black....and as you may know Spectrum was taken over by amstrad....The tape drive was cool mate...I used to borrow games from a mate...and just dub the tapes....although bloody slow to load them games...
...those were the days.....

[NordieBoy]

ohhhh ... do you remember turtle draw on the zx spectrum ??? ... LOL .. oh ... those were the days mate .. none of this new fangled interblag thing, why i remember when i had to dial up to uni via a 13,6 modem and all I got was a BBS and i was happy with that!, and top it off i could dial up a mates BBS ( he had like 5 modems, so i could chat with people or play txt based D&D.

Still got a ZX81, Speccy, Sega SC-3000H (with floppy drive), Canon 8088 and my first 286 downstairs.
All working :whistle:

Downloaded my first Slackware distro from a BBS at 14.4k.

[Delphinus]

right click-open link in new window, it's what I've always done

Once you've used FF and tabs you'll never go back.
Browsing thru the new posts just middle click the ones you like. they load in the background ready for when you want to read them.
No multiple click, swapping between windows. Its great!

[Deviant Esq]

Upon reading on this thread that a whole lot of people like using Opera as their browser, I thought I'd download it and see how it went. Have to say I like it so far, and it does seem faster than Firefox. The Widgets function is cool too.

[cowboyz]

Once you've used FF and tabs you'll never go back.
Browsing thru the new posts just middle click the ones you like. they load in the background ready for when you want to read them.
No multiple click, swapping between windows. Its great!

I used FF and Opera and tabbed browsing and can take or leave any of them. Just as easy to flick through windows on the task bar as it is to flick through tabs, you just have to click the bottom of the screen instead of the top.

And Linux is for people who cant setup windows properly........:bleh:

[rwh]

I used FF and Opera and tabbed browsing and can take or leave any of them. Just as easy to flick through windows on the task bar as it is to flick through tabs, you just have to click the bottom of the screen instead of the top.
That's all very well until you have a dozen other apps open as well. Or other FF windows with other sites in. Tabs are great for keeping related groups of pages together. At work I tend to have multiple tabs per window, multiple windows (sometimes) per virtual desktop, 8 virtual desktops on my desktop computer and another 4 on my laptop ...


And Linux is for people who cant setup windows properly........:bleh:

Right - when I got my new laptop with Vista on it a couple of months ago, I spent ages trying to get it to do what I wanted, before I blew it away and installed Debian. Admittedly that took a while to get right too, due to new hardware that isn't fully supported in stable releases yet - but it was still easier than working out how to burn my Windows recovery disks. Setting up Windows is a PITA when they don't even supply the frigging media ...

Richard

[NordieBoy]

Upon reading on this thread that a whole lot of people like using Opera as their browser, I thought I'd download it and see how it went. Have to say I like it so far, and it does seem faster than Firefox. The Widgets function is cool too.

Mouse gestures and voice activated bowsing is fun too :D

[marioc]

12 votes for telepathy errrr... haha

[steveb64]

So what do all these other browsers do for me that IE doesn't??????

Work faster. Firefox in particular.

Just a note to all out there with Windoze (yep, i've got it too :oi-grr:)...

Ran into some reports of IE 7 causing weird problems with DSL type routers/modems. To the point where they cease to connect!

Apparently, the fix is to roll back to IE6 (use control panel Install/Uninstall programmes). From what I've heard, this problem can occur if you HAVE IE7 installed - even if you use another browser...

So far, I've personally had no problems, so can't certify accuracy (I'm running a D-Link Router/modem)... ...just did a little more research - the problems seem mostly related to 'Linksys' routers... They drop out and/or refuse to connect.

[pyrocam]

I use opera on the Wii because I dont have a choice

Lynx all the way http://lynx.browser.org/
text based browsing!

[Oakie]

Mozilla ...

[MOTOXXX]

i use firefox mostly.

however i used IE a bit too because of OWA doesnt display correctly in ff and ActiveX for the sslvpn

[Delphinus]

however i used IE a bit too because of OWA doesnt display correctly in ff and ActiveX for the sslvpn

Check the IE Tab addon.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

[oldguy]

I'd have ticked Firefox (Linux) if I'd had the option, although it's actually the Debian bundled version, rebranded for legal reasons as Iceweasel.

RichardI would have as well,

I 1 comp, running windows with firefox

and another computer running SuSi 10.2 which firefox is the standard browser

[Winston001]

Just for the record I've been using Opera for 8 years and very happy with it.

I use Firefox on another pc and once you add-on the bits which are native to Opera, it is good too.

Use IE7 daily because there are some secure sites (such as LINZ, Companies Office etc) the other browsers won't work with but avoid it otherwise.

[scracha]

Mouse gestures and voice activated bowsing is fun too :D

Cool, so theoretically one could surf porn sites with umm..both hands off the keyboard?

[scracha]

fangled interblag thing, why i remember when i had to dial up to uni via a 13,6 modem and all I got was a BBS and i was happy with that!, and top it off i could dial up a mates BBS ( he had like 5 modems, so i could chat with people or play txt based D&D.


Lol, I used to run my own sad little BBS with a couple of US robotics 14.4 HST modems. No wonder I had few mates at school.

I can't be the only one who thinks "fucktards" when the Auckland University of Technology advert appears on the gogglebox. If AUT can't differentiate between Internet and World Wide Web then it can't be the best academic institution.

[NordieBoy]

Cool, so theoretically one could surf porn sites with umm..both hands off the keyboard?

Yep.
tools-prefs-advanced-voicey thing...

[ambler]

imo Opera blows everything else out of the water - but I have not checked FF recently, I hear it is pretty good too. IE7 is the closest thing to a pleasant-to-use browser yet from the microsoft camp, but I did not get to to use it much because it messed up a bunch of other programs and I had to roll back to IE6.
Why is Opera great?

*Web pages are shown under tabs instead of separate windows.
Okay this is is supposed to be a pretty dated feature these days but I thought I would mention it because some other major browsers still require you to have a gazillion windows on the taskbar.

*Tabs can be switched between with Ctrl-tab. You can also select tabs by holding down the right mouse button and scrolling the mousewheel.

*You can reopen closed tabs with 'undo'.

*Tabs are remembered after abnormal termination. If your PC gets shutoff abnormally or the Opera process is killed, next time you start Opera you have the option to continue from last time, with all the tabs you had open before.

*You can save tabs in a 'session'. I used this recently when comparing hotel prices - it took a while to find the pages of all the hotels to do comparisons with, so I didn't want to do it all over again when I wanted to check the hotel prices again. It's also good if you have a bunch of pages that you check regularly (ie. hotmail, yahoo, gmail, news, exchange rate, online auctions etc) and you want to check them all at once, just save a session with all those pages open.

*You can open a webpage in the background (in a new tab) without leaving the current page with the middle mouse button. This is great for those those times when the current page has a list of links to pages that you want to look at, but you don' t want to have to open them, then come back to the current page, then click the next one... (eg. in IE: Right-click -> Open in new window -> Alt-tab back to original window -> Find next link -> etc etc)

*The 'transfers' feature stores a list of files you have previously downloaded. This is great for when you download something and forget where you put it, or where you downloaded it from.

*Opera has 'gestures'. These are where you click the right mouse button and move the mouse a little in a certain direction. For example clicking the right mouse button and moving it left will return to the previous page. Here are some common gestures (this is not the entire list):

-Left Go to previous page
-Right Go to next page, or intelligently guess next page.
Intelligently means for example, if you are looking at results 10-20 of a search on Google and you use the 'right' gesture, Opera will determine from the url that the next page will be results 20-30. This is great for those pages with porn thumbnails, and the images are numbered like boobies001.jpg, boobies002.jpg etc. In this case you can flip through the images without have to go back to the thumbnail page and select them individually.
-Down Open a new tab. If the mouse was over a link, that link will be opened in the new tab.
-Down then right Close current tab

In addition, gestures and mouse actions can be customized to your liking.

*The 'notes' feature. This is a list of text notes, along with the address of the webpage they were copied from. Kind of like a bookmark, but with a blurb from the page so you can tell what it was for.

*The 'links' feature. This is a list summarizing only the links available on the current page. Handy for those badly designed pages where links are the same color as normal text, or very large pages with only a few links. The 'links' list will automatically refresh itself when you move to a new page, unless you 'lock' it. When it's locked, it feels very similar to the 'folders' area of windows file explorer, giving you access to the links from a previous page while surfing onto a different page.

*The find dialog stays floating above the page after you have searched, and 'F3' (find again) works as expected. This is very handy when searching for the same text on different tabs. Also, the first find will highlight all occurences of the word on the page, so usually you don't even need to keep pushing F3 at all.

*Search engine integration. A search toolbar is available by default. This is the similar to the google toolbar, but can be set to use other search engines as well. Also, you can select some text in a webpage, then right-click on it to do a Google (or other) search with that text.

*URL guessing. For example, if you simply type "isohunt" into the address, Opera will try some common combinations of 'www.', '.net', '.com' etc to try and find the site you intended to view.

*Those annoying popups are blocked by default. A message will be displayed briefly which you can click on if you do actually want to open the popup.

*Paste-and-go to skip having to press enter after pasting url or search terms. Yes, it's only a little thing but very handy.

*Skins. I never use them, but it's nice to have the option.

*When you view the source of a webpage, there is an 'Apply changes' button which will reload the page with the changes you made, allowing for quick and easy circumvention of javascript check etc., or a great way to check styles and scripts when you are making websites.

Goddamit. I just found this page: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/features/

[idleidolidyll]

I use firefox, opera, mozila, netscape etc
at one point i had about 20 different browsers and used em all EXCEPT the 800lb gorilla (IE).

Your poll gives no option for multiples.

IE and Netscape are S........L.......O........W.............!