Definitive Best Browser Engine

[Cold Blood]

Firefox rules and btw i use internet explorer in a new tab in firefox :p , so basically thats one more advantage for firefox but i rarely find any use for ie in firefox ,only on some pages that aren't displayed properly.

It eats sometimes a lot of ram but i've noticed that this has improved in the latest versions.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

firefox, without a doubt :sleep:

[krmathis]

What is GECKO???

Gecko is an open source rendering/layout engine.

It is used in many well known applications, like:

* Camino.

* Firefox.

* Thunderbird.

* SeaMonkey.

* Netscape.

* ...

I prefer Gecko over its rivals, WebKit and Presto, any day! :whistle:

[Slacker]

Oh man... a lot of people don't seem to see the difference between a web browser and a browser engine, even perhaps the thread creator. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that this vote is about the engine, and not about specific browsers.

[Atasas]

I've been firefox fan for a while now, but recently started to use Opera & got hoohked up to it...

To make the mater worse I've updated Firefox and gues what all my bookmarks dissapeared :no: , on the other hand once I've learned more of Opera Funcions & did a reaserch it is 1- faster; 2-even safer; 3- nice interface :yes:

The sad thing is I did noticed 18% IE :blink: what a disadvatedged kids they are :x

[jamey]

You talk about the best rendering engine, yet then you discuss the best web browser. The MSIE rendering engine is called the Trident layout engine. It is based on code from Spyglass which in turn is based on NCSA's original Mosaic web browser (one of the very first web browsers).

To be honest, the Trident engine is terrible. It lacks plenty of core features found in the competing layout engines, such as Gecko, Presto or KHTML. See Comparison of layout engines.

I wish Microsoft would recode Internet Explorer from the ground up, with a clean layout engine that supports the latest W3C standards. They should rename it too ‒ in reality you don't explore the Internet with MSIE, you browse the web! The WWW is an application of the Internet, just like IM or BitTorrent.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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I prefer Gecko over its rivals, WebKit and Presto, any day! :whistle:

You must never have used a gecko browser on OS X then :laugh:

[TanuKi Beard]

Seriously I preffer Opera, but it takes way to much Virtual Memory, so , negative

For IE, I love the way this browser saves Memory, but it's very vulnerable to spyware, so , negative

Finaly. I choose Firefox because, it is safe, even if it consumes a lot of RAM.

FIREFOX TAKES THE LEAD

[42n81]

Opera on Linux and Windows

<IMHO>

• The only advantage IE has over Opera is the way it saves web pages.
  
• Maxthon and Sleipnir are good. Firefox is OK.
  
• Most people use IE because it's the default.
  
• It seems that people use FF because it's well hyped. I can't think of any other reason.
  
• I don't know how, once you're used to Operas features such as Sessions Manager, Trash, Transfer Manager, etc, you could be satisfied with any other browser.
  

</IMHO>

[PT 13]

Opera (Y)

[Remote Sojourner]

Its so amusing to see that people are discussing web browsers when the original topic is Rendering Engine..

Even after Jamey has pointed out that the thread is not about a browser they still continue

lol@all

Its also sad to see that KHTML got such a small number of votes though it is one of the best and not to say that the first engine which passed ACID2.

But then again its understandable as all are discussing about a browser rather than engine.

For all those ignorant nerds KHTML is the engine for Konqueror and Safari :)

[nXqd]

OPera ................

[Guest ID2]

Opera

[shoust]

@42n81 Latest opera weekly allows you to save webpages like IE does(resources in a folder).

Opera's engine at its current weekly status .. is definately best browser engine i think, support recently added for ContentEditable (Fx only supports designMode, opera now supports both), implementation of document.styleSheets recently been added too.

[krmathis]

You must never have used a gecko browser on OS X then :laugh:

Sure I have!

I use a Gecko based browser (Camino) for 99% of all my browsing. :whistle:

[42n81]

@42n81 Latest opera weekly allows you to save webpages like IE does(resources in a folder).

Thanks for the heads-up! Great news.

[Trong]

Opera on Linux and Windows

<IMHO>

• The only advantage IE has over Opera is the way it saves web pages.
  
• Maxthon and Sleipnir are good. Firefox is OK.
  
• Most people use IE because it's the default.
  
• It seems that people use FF because it's well hyped. I can't think of any other reason.
  
• I don't know how, once you're used to Operas features such as Sessions Manager, Trash, Transfer Manager, etc, you could be satisfied with any other browser.
  

</IMHO>

Eh hem, Maxthon runs on the IE engine. Pretty sure that Sleipnir does too. Firefox isn't an engine.

Anyways, I choose IE.

Edited June 17, 2006 by Trong

[ViperAFK]

Opera Is obviously superior, it's faster than firefox and internet explor, it's rendering engine has the best standards support, and the browser itself has tons of features, Like Mouse Gestures, Session Saver, IRC, Mail, And bittorent clients, all in a download smaller than firefox, and takes less memory, although alot of those features are available in firefox via extentions, its not nearly as smooth, opera also has the most responsive GUI, firefox is absolutely horrible in that particular category, and opera is more secure than both internet explorer and firefox.

and to kernal89, IE may seem to use less memory, but it's tightly integrated into the system, and uses more than it seems.

/end rant

[primexx]

It's amazing how Gecko gets so many votes when the topic clearly asks for the best rendering engine. not browser. People just dont read.

I favour Firefox over the other browsers, I use it as my primary browser. But I do not for one moment think that it has the best rendering engine. I'm sure that a lot of people feel the same way.

Edited June 18, 2006 by primexx

[Meraklis56]

i voted mozila for his internet engine but ie's engine is better cause page creators are making pages for ie...

[42n81]

i voted mozila for his internet engine but ie's engine is better cause page creators are making pages for ie...

????

It's engine is not better because page creators are making pages for it.

Page creators are not making pages for it because it's engine is better.

Page creators are making pages for it because it is the default browser for most users as it comes bundled with the software that comes bundled with the machine.

[Agnes Leroy]

I like Opera very much.

because it offers speed+features.

In my view if support for extensions is there opera will become the

best browser

[levianthen]

mozilla for sure :yes:

[Neil]

You must never have used a gecko browser on OS X then :laugh:

Sure I have!

I use a Gecko based browser (Camino) for 99% of all my browsing. :whistle:

I am not sure why people think Gecko is so bad on OS X Camino works fine, although I still use Safari.

[Agnes Leroy]

Opera is my favorite. :yes:

But I have to agree that IE is the best :no: