The Definitive "BEST BROWSER" thread

By Silvorgold
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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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MulletRobZ

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Netscape 6.1 for me!

However, Mozilla is just as good, but Netscape 6.1 just has a slightly better performance and support as I tested! Internet Explorer 6 isn't bad, but it does tick me off at times! Opera is good as well, sometimes faster than Netscape 6.1, but Netscape 6.1 has far greater web support! And if you want to know what I would choose as the worst, I wouldn't say IE 5, but rather, AOL!

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Quboid

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Geez, me the only Opera user.

I started with Netscape 3, but changed to Nets. 4 when it came out. It started to get too old for some sites and I took one look at Netscape 6 and laughed. I didn't like Mozilla or IE5 so I went searching and found Opera.

I love the way Opera has all the browser windows within one - I tend to have up to 10 windows open at once and only Opera (or Netcaptor hahaha) can do with without clogging the taskbar. I also love many small features in Opera like on the address bar you can type "g word to search for" and it will search Google for "word to search for" - very handy (although I've since discovered the Google IE bar, which does the job). Opera's download manager is excellent too. It's not so horrendously, sickeningly bloated and buggy like Gozilla or Getright, but it still allows stopping and restarting of downloads.

The only problems with Opera is it's a bit dull looking, the internal mail/news reader/writers are limited (they don't even allow HTML reading - which is strange for a browser, although I'd personally against HTML emails/news), although they are fast and I do use the email client, so it's not too bad. Opera is also a stickler for HTML standards. If a site doesn't use HTML standards, it will not be displayed properly - and this is many sites. Of course I would prefer the site to work perfectly because people write the site properly, but realistically, Opera isn't going to change the designer's design methods and I occasionally have to view a site in IE6 to use it properly - again, this is the designers fault, but it's not going to change.

I would use IE6 (which i have installed), but there are too many little annoyances like every time you enter an non-existent URL it goes and loads a MS site. It also doesn't have windows within windows or a good download manager.

I also tried Mozilla, which is good but doesn't have anything that IE doesn't and is slower (although I don't like IE's reasons for being faster, I still like the speed).

Neoplanet is pretty good - maybe a little too fancy, but it's fast enough (IE technology behind it). It doesn't allow all browser windows within one either, and - the hotlist bar in one the wrong side! This is quite annoying, as 70% of pages only use the left half of my screen. In IE/Mozilla/Opera they are pushed over by the hotlist bar so the page is more central and I now find Neoplanet's right hand side bar annoying :( - but if they could straighten out a few glaring errors and allow all browser windows inside the one window, I may well change.

But none are the stability, windows within window capability and little features of Opera, so until Neoplanet, Mozilla or IE improve, Opera will remain my no1 choice.

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Quboid

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Originally posted by Silvorgold  

I'm starting to use Opera at times, but i still love using IE 6......although its basicly the exact same as 5x to me :(

I kinda do this. Opera 95% of the time, but for teh occasional site that used IE only java or something I have IE6 on my quickstart bar and I copy&paste the URL over. It's quick load times makes this a very handy system.

To remove IE and other Win98 crud:

www.98lite.net/products.html

or:

www.tweakpc.com/98lite.htm

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aco Veteran

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IE 1 and 2 were the same!

They both supported tables, font size and font colour

Navigator 1.1 was a bit behind.

It supported tables and font size but not font color :D

Now IE6, Netscape 6.1, Opera 5.11 and Mozilla all support basically everything from font size to XML.

AOL Browser 5 is still way behind the times, but who cares :)

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Rudy

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Webgraph, i know your a linux/netscape/anything not MS lover but u have to admit IE is WAY better than netscape! IE starts way faster and loads pages faster and everything, im sure that with ur netscape **** u can't view some pages right. Lets just take hotmail for example, look at it in netscape then look at it in IE.....BIG difference

Im sure that if IE would be supported in Linux i would proly at least dual boot linux but since linux lack of a good browser no thank you!!

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MulletRobZ

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Rudy, I have tested both browsers thoroughly, and you might think I am lying here, but I am not! Netscape 6.1 is indeed the true browser champion! Not only in speed, but also in standards-compliance, stability, functionality, the whole nine yards! IE crashed my PC more often, it's too f***ing slow, and the only thing that makes it a big deal is that it's integrated into Windows! So Rudy, I know you're lying here since I always check every damn detail when I test software! If you're comparing it with 4.77, then maybe, but not with 6.1! And also, Netscape 6.1 displays the pages just as good and in some cases, better than IE!

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crackhbob

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And it does take more than 5 seconds for ie6 to load up? Also, what about that annoying F*N splash screen that netscape 6 pops up? On my 1.2ghz tbird it takes much longer for netscape to load than ie6.

Are most people going to want to do this to make their browser load faster???! (Though it didn't help my load time at all!)

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Is it possible to disable the splash screen that displays every time Netscape 6 is started?

Applies To: Netscape 6.1; All Windows platforms

Yes. Right click on your desktop shortcut and choose properties. In the 'Target' box, add a space and then "-quiet" (minus the quotes) to the END of the path. When done, it should look similar to this:

"C:Program FilesNetscapeNscp61netscp6.exe" -quiet

You can combine this with other options such as the profile switch. In that case, it may look like this:

"C:Program FilesNetscapeNscp61netscp6.exe" -P "jdoe" -quiet

Obviously, your path and profile names may differ.

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