Internet browser poll

[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

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........

[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........

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

[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 )...

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.

Richard

I 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.