What's your favorite internet browser?

[Deacon]

I just installed MyIE2 I like this ....this is something I needed all along.

 

[MyLeaderisJesus]

IE, Simple good browser that does the job

 

[Phleace]

Let me first start out by saying that no browser is perfect. They all have their own flaws (such as scripting errors or security holes), but some are better than others.

The two I use are Mozilla and Internet Explorer.

Mozilla uses the Mozilla engine... and Netscape uses the Mozilla Engine... and Firebird uses the Mozilla engine...

...so basically, your choices for PC are Internet Explorer, Mozilla (of some flavor) or Opera.

There are some others out there, but those are my favorite. Most are available under Linux and on the Mac platform as well.

 

[jko]

Let me first start out by saying that no browser is perfect. They all have their own flaws (such as scripting errors or security holes), but some are better than others.

The two I use are Mozilla and Internet Explorer.

Mozilla uses the Mozilla engine... and Netscape uses the Mozilla Engine... and Firebird uses the Mozilla engine...

...so basically, your choices for PC are Internet Explorer, Mozilla (of some flavor) or Opera.

There are some others out there, but those are my favorite. Most are available under Linux and on the Mac platform as well.

Firebird does not use the Mozilla engine. It was built from scratch using XUL.

 

[ThePhoenix]

Firebird does not use the Mozilla engine. It was built from scratch using XUL.

Which is what makes it so superior. Netscape wasn't even originally built for this version of HTML, so how could it possibly be anything but unstable? Ditto for IE.

 

[onajourney87]

Firebird all the way here(unless I'm making a site in which case I test it in IE and in Opera too).

Firebird does not use the Mozilla engine. It was built from scratch using XUL.

Firebird does use the Mozilla engine, well actually it uses Gecko. Gecko is the engine used in Mozilla, and in Firebird, and in Netscape. It's what renders the webpage, and in the case of Mozilla and Firebird(Netscape as well I think), it's XUL support was used to create the nifty interface(including tabs, bookmarks, etc).

osm

 

[ashibaka]

It's basically like this:

Special buttons + Opera = Opera
Special buttons + Gecko = Mozilla and Netscape
Windows buttons + Gecko = Mozilla Firebird
Windows buttons + MSHTML = Internet Exploiter

 

[onajourney87]

Windows buttons + Gecko = Mozilla Firebird

Not quite. You can choose not to use windows buttons if you use the right Firebird skin. But the default skin uses Windows buttons.

osm

 

[jko]

I wish people would stop saying Firebird uses the Gecko engine, it doesn't.
osmaker, if your designing a site, you shouldn't have to worry about how it looks in other browsers if you use W3C standards.

Also, here's a shot of my skinned Firebird browser looks like:

 

[Stryper]

i just downloaded firebird, im using it. its nice.

 

[doofus125]

I tried firebird, it works well, but it's to much like netscape for me, I very much do not like netscape and how the bookmarks are setup especially....I like using my start menu Favorites folder to navigate around online....

 

[onajourney87]

I wish people would stop saying Firebird uses the Gecko engine, it doesn't.

Sorry, but you are misinformed.

"Firebird began because a group of people who used to work on the Netscape browser releases wanted to show the world what a browser would look like if it were developed using the flexible Gecko layout engine"
- from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/charter.html

If that's not enough to convince you, then perhaps someone who has worked on programming Firebird will convince you? Well the person I'm thinking of is me. And from experience of fixing some bugs in Firebird, I can tell you it uses Gecko.

osmaker, if your designing a site, you shouldn't have to worry about how it looks in other browsers if you use W3C standards.

If only that was true, but it's not. Just because I use W3C standards doesn't mean all browsers display the standards the same way.

osm

 

[mo.]

I just use IE6 since most websites are designed with that in mind.

 

[mac_philo]

I just use IE6 since most websites are designed with that in mind.

This kind of thinking is antithetical to a 'world-wide' web.

Not criticizing you personally, it's not your fault.

Webpages should be designed for universal readability. Using microsoft specific standards goes against the entire philosophy of the internet.

 

[ashibaka]

I just use IE6 since most websites are designed with that in mind.

Yeah, that's why you're getting pop-up ads.

 

[thisistheday]

I use Konqueror most of the time now. It comes with Linux's KDE, and it also serves as a filemanager.

 

[thisistheday]

osmaker, if your designing a site, you shouldn't have to worry about how it looks in other browsers if you use W3C standards.

I wish more people would use W3C standards.

 

[Durelen]

Lynx!

 

[Dracil]

Firebird.

 

[LilAngelHeart]

I use Konqueror most of the time now. It comes with Linux's KDE, and it also serves as a filemanager.

I love your avatar!