what browser do you use

[seebs]

I'll take anything but IE:

* More security holes than all other browsers put together
* There is, indeed, the marquee tag. That's a *bug*, not a feature
* Supports one of the most consistently evil entities in the physical world

 

[kern]

To add to seebs list of IE negatives:
* No tabbed browsing
* No mouse gestures
* No pop-up window killing
* Huge download and program size

Safari for the Mac is emerging as a pretty good browser -- it was rather buggy in version Beta v48 (including a nasty bug where /tmp would be deleted, causing all kinds of problems), but as of beta v60 many of these issues are fixed and it appears to be working with more and more pages with each release. It's also only a 2.7 meg download. I think that Safari 1.0 will be quite good (they are supposedly adding tabbed browsing as well).

-Chris

 

[seebs]

I don't use tabbed browsing. I'm running X on NetBSD, and I use a window manager called pwm that does tabbed *whole windows*. So, however many Mozilla windows I have open, any Mozilla navigator window will be in the same "frame". I have a single full-screen frame (I use virtual desktops), and thus, I have about 1588x1100 pixels of web browser display. Mmm. Smoooth and silky. (I have Mozilla's "minimum font size" set to 18 points.)

 

[RobyG]

I don't use windows so no IE for me but I can tell you as a developer that most of the annoying issues I come across are trying to get HTML to render correctly in IE because MS doesn't like the w3c standard.

Either way, it's always good to have more than one browser installed on your machine. That way when IE crashes you can launch another.

In Linux I have Mozilla and Konqueror. Mozilla is great, love tabbed browsing for sure, renders neatly and is configurable. Today I came across a cookie bug in Mozilla, switched to Konqueror and no prob. Second browser's are handy.

Of course I use lynx to see what pages look like on other devices, or as parsed by a search engine. I also use wget for diagnostics and cache control.

With over 200 currently active browser projects it's hard to nail it down!

 

[mac_philo]

Lynx 90% of the time, otherwise Netscape on Linux and BrowseX on Windows.

Web surfing with Lynx is faster and more efficient. I enjoy a text only display unless I'm hunting for an image or playing a game.

 

[S Walch]

*uses Opera*

I have no problems with it - But unless a websites Code is definantly the w3c standard, it wont display as it would in other browsers, due to quite a lot of people just using IE, so website designers just go and design there site for IE, which sucks

 

[Christmasguy]

I use IE just because that is what the computer came with. How do you find the other browsers.

To do a search I use the copernic search engine though.

Christmas Guy

 

[S Walch]

Search for browsers on google (www.google.co.uk)

You'll find about, over a million pages of browser info

Most popular browsers:

Internet Explorer: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp
Opera: www.opera.com
Mozilla: www.mozilla.net
Netscape: www.netscape.net

 

[Christmasguy]

thanks

 

[paulewog]

personally I don't really think MS is "evil" .... it's much betetr than AOL

 

[S Walch]

Today at 10:49 PM paulewog said this in Post #50 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=685696#post685696)

personally I don't really think MS is "evil" .... it's much betetr than AOL

Dude, anything is better than AOL.

 

[paulewog]

/me is in complete agreement

/me doesn't think Earthlink is that far behind AOL though

/me is glad he doesn't use either

 

[S Walch]

/me is also glad he doesn't use neither *

The only thing that AOL have done that is good IMHO, is creating AIM.

 

[Blackwing]

I am just loving Mozilla!

 

[S Walch]

Mozilla is good - but I find that Opera is faster.

 

[Bodidily]

well, it is "the fastest browser on earth!"

 

[paulewog]

/me isn't compeltely sure of that, he has the linux version and Konqueror is faster than Opera when opening multiple webpages - Opera seems to quit after a while.

 

[Bodidily]

/me was quoting the Opera tagline

"Opera - The fastest browser on earth"

http://www.opera.com

 

[S Walch]

Well, it's faster than IE and Mozilla and netscape anyway

Plus you don't need a pluging in order to stop pop-ups.

 

[paulewog]

/me knows the opera tagline thing

/me thinks it's a lot lses taxing on computer resourcse by far