Definitive Best Browser Engine

[m!ke]

[Fit4130Rider]

Let the flame war begin!

[uniacidz]

If i had to choose, be Opera

IE

Mozilla Suite

Even Netscape (yes its rebranded, we all know it)

then Firefox

Actually, come to think of it, i wouldnt even have Firefox on any system i own or have made etc. Thing is buggy, and until it comes up with a better Options/Preferences panel, then will never be.

Edited September 23, 2004 by Davey

[imtoomuch]

For the love of Jesus H Christ, not again! I didn't vote because Mozilla and Firefox are not the same thing and my vote would have gone to firefox.

[Bearded Kirklander]

IE 6 with MyIE 2 (or Maxthon) = Best for me

Mozilla Suite 1.7.3 is a very close second. (with autoscroll and tabbrowser extensions, that is)

[HoochieMamma]

The Fox (Y)

[Jase]

FF'Forsure - Firefox

Use Mozilla Firefox if you want to have full control of your browser eg: visual style- simply play with the css file to suit your needs :cool:

Use Ie if you want your browser to be Hijacked...etc :rolleyes:

use Opera if you want a browser bloated with buttons, adds and other anoying things but faster browsing :yes:

[bkellner]

IE has dropped to 57% of browsers used, while Firefox is up to 18%. Less than 2 years ago IE was at 95%. IE being IE and all IE browsers (MyIE2, Avant, etc..) People are realizing that IE really is not that great of a browser.

I use to be the biggest IE junkie, hating firefox and supporting IE on every thread like this. Now I can't stand IE, and love Firefox and Thunderbird.

- It looks basically the same, actually better.

- It has less security issues.

- It has a lot more and much nicer features.

- about:config

- Better CSS support (Why I made the switch to begin with)

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In order:

Firefox, Opera, IE

[HoochieMamma]

I use to be the biggest IE junkie, hating firefox and supporting IE on every thread like this. Now I can't stand IE, and love Firefox and Thunderbird.

I was EXACTLY like you. :yes:

[Gromvar]

I think the best browser for anyone is the one they feel easiest to use. My personal preference is Firefox, because I can't live without using tabs now.

[Bearded Kirklander]

I was EXACTLY like you. :yes:

But then you got Prozac and you realize that IE 6 is not so bad, Mozilla is great and Opera sucks tanks! :D

heh...

[demorgoron]

IE 5 :woot: :woot: :woot:

[v_magal]

I cant believe another thread like this on a played out subject went to 3 pages

[beanboy89]

Mozilla Suite 1.7.3.

[hadiz]

FireFox (Y)

[D0401]

firefox

[stezo2k]

Firefox, it's free, fast, updated a lot and looks nice

[rayjin]

Google browser... oh yea!!! :rofl:

[supernova_00]

The Definitive "Best Browser" Thread Search is your friend...btw it was only on the second page. Requesting this be made a sticky.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Opera.

[ryno267]

firefox.... duh !?

[altermind]

I use IE and am testing out firefox...... but I don't use stock IE.. I use avantbrowser.....

I must admit.. the live favs in firefox are nice... but the interface is slow and the redraw on the images and scrooling is much slower then IE for me

[Dean W]

IM using Firefox now after using Internet Explorer and getting annoyed with all the security issues and all the spyware programes that you get :)

[Killer XP]

Hi Hani,

Go to my weblog Computer's Tip's and How-To's

Switching to Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is attracting huge attention due to its good webpage rendering engine, security, and handy features. It is also easy to personalise with extensions and themes.

* Very Standards compliant - Based on Gecko engine.

* Tabbed browsing, one-click-downloading and integrated Google search all standard.

* Open source

* Very secure

* Extensions - Countless add on features can be downloaded

* Themes - You can personalise your Firefox by downloading themes

* Easy to use and intuitive

* Good accessibility

The reasons why you should switch over to Firefox browser.

1) Standards compliance. If you don't design/maintain websites, then this means nothing to you. If you do, it means everything.

2) Tabbed-browsing. IE doesn't have it.

3) Popup blocking. Windows XP users who have SP2 now have it, but what about Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000?

4) Security. Firefox will not give a malicious site the ability to run arbitrary code. IE shouldn't, but who knows? It's been exploited numerous times.

5) Extensions/Themes. There are so many extensions and themes whose functionality is not duplicated on IE, it's rediculous to try to count them. IE has no native theme support.

6) Performance. Firefox easily out-performs IE in general page rendering time on old and new hardware and interprets JavaScript much faster.

7) Privacy. Browsing history, cookies, and cache data are only stored in one place by Firefox, and when you ask Firefox to delete those files it deletes them! IE/Windows maintains your entire history and typed-urls in system-level hidden files that aren't deleted when you ask to delete them. You can't even browse to those files in Explorer.

8) Cross-platform Firefox is compiled and tested for many hardware/OS platforms, whereas IE only works with Windows x86 machines and Apple machines running Mac OS.

9) Community-driven. Firefox is distributed by a community of developers/testers/users who take input from each other and from the current browser market. This means Firefox is always up-to-date with features that the users want. IE hasn't had a major release in something like 7 years, and is distributed commercially with only limited user feedback.

10) It's the underdog. Firefox is an underdog in the new browser wars that are beginning to emerge because of Microsoft's laziness. I just like to root for the underdog, especially when it's as awesome as the Fox.

11) The download's are easy becuse you can put the download program's and bookmark's off the internet into my documents folder with the installer icon so it will be easer to find. Also it makes it so ease to burn to on the CD install the program quicker.

12) No ActiveX controller=no code being executed from you simply being on a webpage.

13) IE = hackers paradise.

14) The tons of extensions, like Adblock, Gmail Composer, Google Preview, etc.

15) Multiple search engines. IE can't even do this without extra third party toolbars.

16) Much harder to get spyware and other stuff making your Windows install unstable, since there's no ActiveX problems, and because Firefox is a smaller target for hackers than IE.

[giga Veteran]

The Fox for me.