The Definitive "BEST BROWSER" thread

[Riz360]

FIREBIRD/PHOENIX of course!

[CaKeY]

I'm addicted to the Mozilla Firbird nightlies. Best browser I've every tried, and its still just a lil' baby lol. :D

[PeterHammer]

I use Mozilla 1.3 on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

As many others noted: sometimes you have to use IE because some lame developers out there don't bother creating standards-based sites. Surprise surprise - Microsoft.com is the worst offender. I understand why I need to use IE for windows update, but I just wish they would drop all the non-standard extensions like their behavior crap. You can do all that with good old cross-browser standard DHTML.

As a developer I always code for Mozilla first. Their debugging tools, though buggy, are very handy - particularly when dealing with complex stylesheets and DHTML. And targeting Mozilla usually means it also works in KHTML, IE and Opera without modification.

[oldmate15]

Opera

BTW, any screenies of firebird?

[oldmate15]

Opera 7.00 :)

[Toxikk Veteran]

Opera

BTW, any screenies of firebird?

http://www.texturizer.net/firebird

[fdiaz2day]

I feel like Opera is the best.

[youm0nt Veteran]

in IE6+flashget you can right click a link(like www.blahblah.xzy/name.zip) and click "download with flashget" i find it very handy :D better than saving target as ;)

[youm0nt Veteran]

opera most of the time :) and if i need to,IE6

[kombolcha]

MyIE2 (... and why wasn't that an option in the poll?).

oh yea.. i forgot about that :) sorry :rolleyes:

[kombolcha]

well i'm counting down to June 3rd or 2nd.. crap i already forgot ... oh wait.. its June 3rd, i remember now.. 9 day's before graduation.

so that would be 2 weeks and 3 days

ummm.. which one do i download.. there are a bunch of firebird's nightly releases :blink:

thanks for your suggestions.

[kombolcha]

i got the latest nightly build.. Vice King is very happy with FIREBIRD :happy: :yes: its hella fast

. now which one of you chose MSN explorer? :shifty:

[freeza]

internet explorer of course

[Gary King]

I definitely suggest Phoenix/Firebird.

[NeoMayhem]

You must not have been using broadband for very long or at least not downloading big files (ie. a linux distro). I don't use download managers as often as I use to on dial up (not that I can remember when I had it anyway, it's been years) but I still use them. Another note: It won't really matter what browser you are using if your cable service is fast enough. Sure Firebird (or whatever they are calling it now) is fast but it isn't that much faster than IE so it really all comes down to user preference. What do I use? MyIE2 (... and why wasn't that an option in the poll?).

I have had DSL for 2+ years now, and have never used a gay download manager :p

I have downloaded at least 100gb though a web browser without one :p

[kombolcha]

why would you say a download manager is gay.. you have broadband.. wouldn't you want to download stuff even a little more faster?

its the difference between downloading from one server and downloading from up to 10 different sites all at once.

right now with my satellite connection. if i use the IE download. i'll get around 80kbps w/ DAP i get 500 - 600 kbps man that is really GAY ;) :p

[urumartin]

in IE6+flashget you can right click a link(like www.blahblah.xzy/name.zip) and click "download with flashget" i find it very handy :D better than saving target as ;)

just disable that confirmation dialog box is perfect

[sanctified Veteran]

good to see more people using phoenix than IE

[Tokyo]

the burning bird 0.6

[Gary King]

,May 16 2003, 23:42] good to see more people using phoenix than IE

I'm glad as well, but that's only in this poll on the board.

[Fantasy]

MYIE2 is perfect

[LUTZIFER]

Well I voted for Netscape becuz as far as I'm concerned, it always has been the best and most professional browser ever, and there probably wouldn't be any other browsers if Netscape had never been created.

I do only use IE 6 though, ever since the first alphas were available.

Only cuz IE 6 matches XP more than Netscape does, lol, well really cuz everything just seems to only support IE these days.

[sanctified Veteran]

Well I voted for Netscape becuz as far as I'm concerned, it always has been the best and most professional browser ever, and there probably wouldn't be any other browsers if Netscape had never been created.

I do only use IE 6 though, ever since the first alphas were available.

Only cuz IE 6 matches XP more than Netscape does, lol, well really cuz everything just seems to only support IE these days.

in fact both netscape and IE comes for the same base, spyglass mozaic, so its thanks to mozaic the creation of all the browsers

[fdiaz2day]

in IE6+flashget you can right click a link(like www.blahblah.xzy/name.zip) and click "download with flashget" i find it very handy :D better than saving target as ;)

This: "www.blahblah.xzy/name.zip" is not working. :p :rofl: :whistle:

[caerma]

Internet Explorer...!!!