Which is the best browser engine ever made?  

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  1. 1. Which is the best browser engine ever made?

    • IE
      399
    • Opera
      504
    • Gecko (mozilla)
      1446
    • KHTML
      58


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It really depends on what you need.

Opera: Simple browsing, no frills, one of the faster web browsers.

Mozilla Firefox: Has speed(although not as fast as Opera), excellent tabbed browsing and optional add-on extensions. You can also change the ways it looks, too. My fave.

IE: To me, one of the worst. Popups come out of NOWHERE sometimes. Quite lag....but I suggest NOT to delete it. Certain software and website need IE to work.

Hope this will help you decide which browser is the better one for you.

zheng.93

It really depends on what you need.

Opera: Simple browsing, no frills, one of the faster web browsers.

Mozilla Firefox: Has speed(although not as fast as Opera), excellent tabbed browsing and optional add-on extensions. You can also change the ways it looks, too. My fave.

IE: To me, one of the worst. Popups come out of NOWHERE sometimes. Quite lag....but I suggest NOT to delete it. Certain software and website need IE to work.

Hope this will help you decide which browser is the better one for you.

zheng.93

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Uh the poll is on browser engines, not browsers.

Yeah but Opera and IE are 2 options on the poll of this page and he was talking about them.

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Yes. Opera uses Opera redering engine and IE uses IE rendering engine. It's like Maxthon uses IE engine, Safari uses Khtml enigne and Flock (based on Firefox) uses Gecko engine. We aren't talking about the browser, but the engines that browsers use.

Id say Gecko.

IEs engine: It's CSS and XHTML support is appalling. It does render pages relatively quickly though.

Opera: It's more standards compliant than IE, but still not perfect - there is no perfect browser engine though. Does sometimes render perfectly coded webpages wrongly for no apparent reason though.

Gecko: Renders most (if not all) pages (that have been coded correctly) fine. It understands coding standards, not completely, but alot better than IE and probably slightly better than Opera's engine. Renders pages quite slowly though.

KHTML: Renders pages fookin' fast...but 9 times out of 10 it doesn't render the page properly :p It needs a lot more work done to it.

The only browser I've used that uses the KHTML engine is Konqueror, I don't know if Safari is any different for whatever reason.

The only browser I've used that uses the KHTML engine is Konqueror, I don't know if Safari is any different for whatever reason.

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WebCore has so many advancements from KHTML. :p Safari renders pages correctly 9.5 times out of 10. Usually, the site that doesn't render correctly is very poorly coded.

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Well I've already voted Mozilla (Gecko) in this poll months ago, but now that I've used Safari and Firerfox on Mac OS X 10.4, I'm kind of split between KHTML/WebCore (Safari's engine) and Gecko as some things Safari can do properly that Firefox can't and vice-versa.

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