The Definitive "BEST BROWSER" thread


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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/me waits for the flames..

I personally like Internet Explorer.

IE is fine, but you are really missing without tabbed browseing

btw I just decided to install avant again and they added google search to the context menu :D

and aiming click seems to be working still

this is a close race

well i'm currently using three browsers, i use ie as my main browser just for ease of use. but i have been using firefox for the last couple days because of curiousity and i have found it to be really good. the only thing that i find missing is what i'm used to using in opera which is mouse gestures. so overall its a tie between firefox and opera

I was a dedicated MyIE2 user untill I came across Firefox :D

I'm using MyIE2 at the moment. FireFox is very promising and I like it much. Maybe when 1.0 comes out. I ran into some nasty rendering bugs on sites like msnbc.com and slashdot, and I could not get the mouse gestures plugin feature to work as well as MyIE2's. I'll wait until a newer release until I try again. For now, MyIE2.

myIE2 + ad muncher + ai roboform + net transport have been the best combination of web surfing tools I have ever found. myIE2 has just proved way more versatile and flexible and feature rich than firefox (for example I can adjust all the toolbars and put the tabs on the bottom, etc and I dont need some obsure plugin to do this...) Another thing I really liked about myie was its integration with explorer as well...the links folder is the most important folder I use.

myIE can already support the gecko engine and as soon as they integrate that in better, the browser will be solid.

spywareguard/blaster gets an honorable mention here too. Since they kill spyware for IE, this carries over to myIE...I'm not so sure they cover firefox though...

I voted opera (easy to configure and adapt to my needs, mouse gestures, tabbed interface) and I use avant for any site which has been poorly written and doesn't work with opera.

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