The Definitive "BEST BROWSER" thread

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What is the Best Browser  

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  1. 1. What is the Best Browser

    • Mozilla/Firefox
      427
    • Opera
      86
    • Internet Explorer
      111
    • IE Alternative (MyIE2, etc)
      85
    • Netscape
      1
    • Safari
      13
    • Konqueror
      1
    • Lynx
      2
    • K-Meleon
      3
    • Other
      7

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.will

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I USE IE6sp1.  It does what I want, if well maintained is fast enough, renders most pages well (I never said it conformed to standards, I am saying it renders well).

I use a plugin for TABS, the GOOGLE toolbar  (good pop-up blocking).

Just waiting for a good download manager that doesn't interfer too much.

what do u use 4 tabs?

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TGD

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I don't use Firebird because it offers me nothing IE doesn't. I use Avant for all your "tabbed" ish.

Every single webpage looks good in IE. Many webpages look bad in Firebird. And you can go on about your standards and ****, but at the end of the day I want the browser that looks the best.

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Joshie

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I use Firebird primarily, with IE as my Windows Update browser, of course. Naturally, I wish Windows Update was a standalone application, but I suppose MS pushed the browser trend too far and can't turn back now. Personally, I never shared the old 90s belief that everything can and should eventually exist within a web browser environment. It puts a wall around innovation. Sure, there's still some room to move around, but after a while, the border is going to become all too apparent.

But anyway, Firebird pleases me, though it has a few bugs which get on my nerves. Some webpages just don't load properly, and I don't really care if some of the Mozilla zealots blame it on the site coder for working with IE instead of Mozilla. I don't care about the politics and pseudo-theology about this browser war. When it comes to the web, I'm a user, and I simply want to browse. I don't share in the Linuxite psychosis that a computer user is a sheep if they don't know how to program everything down to their own drivers.

I'll stick with Firebird until the new Longhorn IE is far enough along for me to evaluate. At that point, I'll compare the two and come to my next conclusion. But for now, Firebird is a much more comfortable, if slightly more sluggish, browsing experience.

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6XGate

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Got to love Mozilla Firebird.

After using IE for some many years and getting use to its actual usefull and helpful features, Mozilla wasn't usefull enough when if first came out. But man when Mozilla Firebird came out. All of IE's best features and all of Mozilla's best features in one browser, you can't beat that.

Now if only I could just get a good theme for it. :huh:

:D Oh well.

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6XGate

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OH yeah, I almost for got to add that I like the fact that Mozilla Firebird has only crashed on me ONCE in the 6 months i've been using it. Much better compaired to IE's two or three times a day and Netscape/Mozilla's at least once a week. Wouldn't you folks say. :happy:

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slayerx02

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I use MyIE2. I think it uses a little more system resource but since its tabbed its alot better then having multiple IE windows open. And intergrated popup stopper works better than a separate software.

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