What's The Best Free Web Browser ?

[ragdolly]

If any of you have experienced what i have in trying to use IE with Winows XP then you may not have any hair left LOL. Navigator works best by far with Windows XP. Very fast and reliable.

 

[raphink]

If any of you have experienced what i have in trying to use IE with Winows XP then you may not have any hair left LOL. Navigator works best by far with Windows XP. Very fast and reliable.

Navigator? You mean Netscape?

 

[FatBurger]

Opera - fast, annoying ads, advanced features
IE - will work with more websites than any other browser, already installed, getting improved dramatically
Netscape - fair amount of features, slow
Maxthon/Avant/CrazyBrowser/etc - same compatability benefits as IE, but with a lot more features
Firefox - fastest, huge features thanks to user community

I used Maxthon (when it was MyIE) until version .9 of Firefox, when I think Firefox surprassed IE's rendering engine. Now with Firefox 1.0, the better performance and extensions make it (in my mind) the absolute best browser.

 

[anathema]

Firefox, no doubt about it.

 

[superfly]

Maxthon/Avant/CrazyBrowser/etc - same compatability benefits as IE, but with a lot more features

unfortunately, you're still using ie underneath it all so you still have all the security holes...

 

[Hark3N]

For a nice GUI experience, I would go with Firefox.
For no-nonsense browsing, I would go with Links(unforetunately only in *nix clones).

My 2 cents.

 

[faller_g]

another vote for firefox, but not the mozilla suite.. more trouble then its worth

 

[raphink]

For a nice GUI experience, I would go with Firefox.
For no-nonsense browsing, I would go with Links(unforetunately only in *nix clones).

Although you can't possibly ask basic users do behave the same way, just as you can't ask them to use nano as a great no-nonsense editor

 

[Hark3N]

Although you can't possibly ask basic users do behave the same way, just as you can't ask them to use nano as a great no-nonsense editor

Har-har-har.

What can I say. I hate kitch.

 

[raphink]

Har-har-har.

What can I say. I hate kitch.

Everytime I'm working in console only I use links or lynx as my browser, still I would not recommend them to any normal user

 

[ldicdican]

another vote for firefox, but not the mozilla suite.. more trouble then its worth

i vote for firefox too!!!

btw: what do you mean by "not the mozilla suite"?

is that different firefox version?

 

[Hark3N]

i vote for firefox too!!!

btw: what do you mean by "not the mozilla suite"?

is that different firefox version?

Mozilla is the company that produces the browser/e-mail application.

There are two options: The standalone browser and e-mail (Firefox and Thunderbird) and the Mozilla software suite.

The suite has fallen largely out of favor to Firefox and Thunderbird. It is, however, still maintained and some people prefer it over Firefox and Thunderbird.

It is also very similar to the Netscape suite, bieng a re-implimentation of the Netscape code.

Hope that clears it up.

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[ldicdican]

thanks for the info Hark3N!

now i know! that i'm only using FireFox alone and not the Mozilla suite...

 

[poretz]

Mozilla is the company that produces the browser/e-mail application.

There are two options: The standalone browser and e-mail (Firefox and Thunderbird) and the Mozilla software suite.

The suite has fallen largely out of favor to Firefox and Thunderbird. It is, however, still maintained and some people prefer it over Firefox and Thunderbird.

It is also very similar to the Netscape suite, bieng a re-implimentation of the Netscape code.

To expand on that, Netscape and Mozilla actually share their code from the same source. The source code was open-sourced six months before AOL bought Netscape. So Netscape is as much a reimplementation as Mozilla, maybe even more so. The Netscape and Mozilla suite are pretty much the same except Netscape has all of the features hidden for protecting your privacy reflecting the commercial interest and corperate priorities of AOL/Time Warner.

Now as for the differences between the Mozilla suite and the Firefox/Thunderbird combo. The Mozilla suite comes with a really pretty nice and capable HTML Composer for creating web pages.

Just my .02 sheckels. FWIW.

Blessings.

 

[redherring]

I just took the plunge a couple of days ago and changed from IE to firefox- i havn't looked back since! I especially like the tab system, makes browsing a lot eisier. To be fair I can't compare it to the others out their (opera, etc) but i can def recomend firefox 2 ya.

 

[GW_in_04]

Avant and other Internet Exploder rip offs still use IE guts...Firefox ahnds down no questions asked...just wait til Google buys Mozilla and turns Firefox into the standard browser for everyone.

 

[dragonfire]

another vote for firefox

 

[Illuminatus]

...just wait til Google buys Mozilla and turns Firefox into the standard browser for everyone.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization working on Open Source software. Google can't buy it.

 

[raphink]

just wait til Google buys Mozilla and turns Firefox into the standard browser for everyone.

Will you also wait before Google buys Debian before using it?
Also wait till Google buys the Bible text before reading it, it'll surely be a standard by then

 

[FatBurger]

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization working on Open Source software. Google can't buy it.

Doesn't make a difference. Google can always buy the rights to the name, which gives them control and ends up being the same thing.

Google wouldn't buy the Firefox moniker outright though, they'd be more interested in co-branding somehow. (Look at projects like Picasa.) Though of course if you like rumors, then they've already started developing their own web browser, after they hired two of the lead programmers who created Internet Explorer (the latter being confirmed as true, the former left up to everyone's imagination).