The Definitive "BEST BROWSER" thread

[prozak]

The Super Bowser was better, in the Super Mario Bros. for super nintendo you know? that one rulez

i didnt like the other ones IMO

j\k

[Crayon]

i think MyIE is nice, but it seems sorta glitchy(at least to me it does) and i think it's ugly. that's why i go with firebird, it looks nice and slick, but that's just me.

[danball1976]

Internet Explorer 6+ is the best

[munki]

Firebird is what I use atm. :)

[Dross]

Internet Explorer 6+ is the best

Ew. Why do people like this browser so much? It doesn't even have tabbed browsing.

[Garrett C]

Firebird for months... As far as plugins go, most of the features you listed are available for Firebird. I'll second [saint dark] in this.

[aydc]

MYIE2 rulez dudes!! I liked firebird when I first saw it, but after using it for a day, I uninstalled it and decided to wait until version 0.8 at least. It's just so slow and even with all the extentions it doesn't come near the usability of MYIE2.

Believe me, I hate IE. It totaly sucks. I wish MYIE2 used Gecko engine with the same interface, then we'd have a hands down winner.

[Garrett C]

Ew. Why do people like this browser so much? It doesn't even have tabbed browsing.

People like this browser because it is what comes with Windows, and they are too stuburn to change their evil ways.

[memNOC]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:19]

umm no theyre not.. like i said, ive thoroughly tested Firebird and checked out practically every plugin there is, and the functionality, compared to MyIE2, is sub-par, at best..

again, most of these features are NOT in Firebird..

well, you must be blind and biased because I use or used to use every feature that have you listed :rolleyes:

Care to tell me what feature is not in Firebird?

i dont have Firebird installed right now, but im pretty sure advanced drag-dropping (and searching for that matter) is unavailable in FB.. also i dont remember URL aliasing, easy proxy and download control (one button ActiveX, Java, videos, sounds, etc. toggling) configuration, autosaving tabs (you can set to double click on a tab and it will save it automatically in the predetermined folder.. this is very convenient if its a picture or something..), actual page zooming and auto page scrolling (this may be supported by FB, not sure)..

like i said before, Firebird is a good browser with a good engine, but you simply cannot argue with the fact that MyIE2 has more functionality..

i tried FB for a week or so, and after getting frustrated by it not having many little functions that MyIE2 spoiled me with (yes, ive tried plugins), i decided to switch back..

[memNOC]

i think MyIE is nice, but it seems sorta glitchy(at least to me it does) and i think it's ugly. that's why i go with firebird, it looks nice and slick, but that's just me.

ill give you this.. MyIE2 is not the prettiest thing youve seen, and compared to FB its down right ugly.. but then again, if its looks youre going for, why not chose Opera? :blink:

[sanctified Veteran]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:19]

umm no theyre not.. like i said, ive thoroughly tested Firebird and checked out practically every plugin there is, and the functionality, compared to MyIE2, is sub-par, at best..

again, most of these features are NOT in Firebird..

well, you must be blind and biased because I use or used to use every feature that have you listed :rolleyes:

Care to tell me what feature is not in Firebird?

i dont have Firebird installed right now, but im pretty sure advanced drag-dropping (and searching for that matter) is unavailable in FB.. also i dont remember URL aliasing, easy proxy and download control (one button ActiveX, Java, videos, sounds, etc. toggling) configuration, autosaving tabs (you can set to double click on a tab and it will save it automatically in the predetermined folder.. this is very convenient if its a picture or something..), actual page zooming and auto page scrolling (this may be supported by FB, not sure)..

like i said before, Firebird is a good browser with a good engine, but you simply cannot argue with the fact that MyIE2 has more functionality..

i tried FB for a week or so, and after getting frustrated by it not having many little functions that MyIE2 spoiled me with (yes, ive tried plugins), i decided to switch back..

theres a plugin or an actual feature for every thing in that list (cept the double click tabs, Im not sure if the advanced tab browsing extension give that feature).

Im not arguing the fact that MyIE is a great frontend (not browser), but the final fact that makes firebird better is this: chromes, learn to customize them and you got the most versatile browser.

Also, what drags MyIE points is that it uses IE rendering engine, and engine that cant even draw png's correctly (however, someone told me that Avant browser fixed this so correct me if MyIE did it too)

[AcdShdw]

Firebird for Windows, Safari for Mac.

couldnt have said it better myself :p

[memNOC]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:47]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:19]

umm no theyre not.. like i said, ive thoroughly tested Firebird and checked out practically every plugin there is, and the functionality, compared to MyIE2, is sub-par, at best..

again, most of these features are NOT in Firebird..

well, you must be blind and biased because I use or used to use every feature that have you listed :rolleyes:

Care to tell me what feature is not in Firebird?

i dont have Firebird installed right now, but im pretty sure advanced drag-dropping (and searching for that matter) is unavailable in FB.. also i dont remember URL aliasing, easy proxy and download control (one button ActiveX, Java, videos, sounds, etc. toggling) configuration, autosaving tabs (you can set to double click on a tab and it will save it automatically in the predetermined folder.. this is very convenient if its a picture or something..), actual page zooming and auto page scrolling (this may be supported by FB, not sure)..

like i said before, Firebird is a good browser with a good engine, but you simply cannot argue with the fact that MyIE2 has more functionality..

i tried FB for a week or so, and after getting frustrated by it not having many little functions that MyIE2 spoiled me with (yes, ive tried plugins), i decided to switch back..

theres a plugin or an actual feature for every thing in that list (cept the double click tabs, Im not sure if the advanced tab browsing extension give that feature).

Im not arguing the fact that MyIE is a great frontend (not browser), but the final fact that makes firebird better is this: chromes, learn to customize them and you got the most versatile browser.

Also, what drags MyIE points is that it uses IE rendering engine, and engine that cant even draw png's correctly (however, someone told me that Avant browser fixed this so correct me if MyIE did it too)

hhmm i may try Firebird again when it hits 1.0.. for now, ill stick to MyIE2..

just out of curiosity, what is this chromes thing you mention? plugins or what? :blink:

[sanctified Veteran]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:47]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:19]

umm no theyre not.. like i said, ive thoroughly tested Firebird and checked out practically every plugin there is, and the functionality, compared to MyIE2, is sub-par, at best..

again, most of these features are NOT in Firebird..

well, you must be blind and biased because I use or used to use every feature that have you listed :rolleyes:

Care to tell me what feature is not in Firebird?

i dont have Firebird installed right now, but im pretty sure advanced drag-dropping (and searching for that matter) is unavailable in FB.. also i dont remember URL aliasing, easy proxy and download control (one button ActiveX, Java, videos, sounds, etc. toggling) configuration, autosaving tabs (you can set to double click on a tab and it will save it automatically in the predetermined folder.. this is very convenient if its a picture or something..), actual page zooming and auto page scrolling (this may be supported by FB, not sure)..

like i said before, Firebird is a good browser with a good engine, but you simply cannot argue with the fact that MyIE2 has more functionality..

i tried FB for a week or so, and after getting frustrated by it not having many little functions that MyIE2 spoiled me with (yes, ive tried plugins), i decided to switch back..

theres a plugin or an actual feature for every thing in that list (cept the double click tabs, Im not sure if the advanced tab browsing extension give that feature).

Im not arguing the fact that MyIE is a great frontend (not browser), but the final fact that makes firebird better is this: chromes, learn to customize them and you got the most versatile browser.

Also, what drags MyIE points is that it uses IE rendering engine, and engine that cant even draw png's correctly (however, someone told me that Avant browser fixed this so correct me if MyIE did it too)

hhmm i may try Firebird again when it hits 1.0.. for now, ill stick to MyIE2..

just out of curiosity, what is this chromes thing you mention? plugins or what? :blink:

configuration files, like .ini or .sys for windows Firebird has this files with .css extensions, of course, this is not for the normal user, but Firebird itself is not for a normal user

[memNOC]

,Jun 30 2003, 00:55]configuration files, like .ini or .sys for windows Firebird has this files with .css extensions, of course, this is not for the normal user, but Firebird itself is not for a normal user

hhmm seems interesting.. style sheets editing? does that work for the frontend, or just browser functions? is there a place that tells me how this interacts with the browser itself and perhaps some tutorials or something?

see now, THIS is interesting stuff.. tho isnt this the way plugins are written for FB?

[CaKeY]

hhmm seems interesting.. style sheets editing? does that work for the frontend, or just browser functions? is there a place that tells me how this interacts with the browser itself and perhaps some tutorials or something?

see now, THIS is interesting stuff.. tho isnt this the way plugins are written for FB?

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

[sanctified Veteran]

hhmm seems interesting.. style sheets editing? does that work for the frontend, or just browser functions? is there a place that tells me how this interacts with the browser itself and perhaps some tutorials or something?

see now, THIS is interesting stuff.. tho isnt this the way plugins are written for FB?

both frontend and functions, you can learn from some examples here: http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html

that some things you can do but you are not limited to

[Ryne]

Can't really use firebird, it takes too much resources to use on this machine. I just stick with either myIE, or just plain IE.

[Elliott]

I don't see why MyIE(2) is so popular. It sucked resources like hell out of my PC. :blink:

[Dark Warhawk]

Oh no, we can't afford to spare 30MB of memory these days...  Why, our computers will simply grind to a halt under that amount of strain...  ;)

Really, IE uses as much if not more memory when its run.  Microsoft has taken steps however, to hide the real memory usage from its users.

yes i can spare it, but this myth that firebird somehow uses less memory then Mozilla itself is what i was trying to point out. i'm useing it right now and love it, i was not trying to knock it at all.

[Shadrack]

Memory comparison between Firebird 0.6 and Internet Explorer 6, with the same 3 pages open. (Firebird tabs, IE windows)

Internet Explorer seems to us (gasp) 2 MB more

:o .

Of corse that is just the executable. We are not adding in whatever that extra little bit that windows preloads so IE starts up faster.

[sanctified Veteran]

Memory comparison between Firebird 0.6 and Internet Explorer 6, with the same 3 pages open. (Firebird tabs, IE windows)

Internet Explorer seems to us (gasp) 2 MB more

:o .

Of corse that is just the executable. We are not adding in whatever that extra little bit that windows preloads so IE starts up faster.

also we are not counting the multiple IE dependencies hidden in svchost (System services) :shifty:

[Ryne]

On 128 mb ram, differences are shown when opening IE and opening mozilla/firebird. I don't like IE, but I am forced to use it.

[mzkhadir]

Opera

[mzkhadir]

If you don't a page it takes up just about 12mbs.